ROCK CHALLANGE!

On Tuesday 15th February Kings Langley school performed at stevange in Rock Challange. The school have been doing this for ten years, of which I have been in 4 (including this one) usually we would have performed and aimed to win meaning we will have a place in the next round at Portsmouth, however due to winning 3 years in a row in previous years we have been put into premier league! Meaning we were only showcasing in Stevanage.

Rock Challange meens so much to the school, and even though we were not competeing there was still a lot of pressure on us as we wanted to be the best and prove to all the other schools we deserve to be premier league and show them the difference between a premier school, and a non premier school! We rehearsed hard for this causing stress but it was all worth while! As the event was coming up everyone was attending a lot more rehearsals as they felt the pressure, and a lot of time was spent on painting and doing the set which was amazing!! Nerves has started to kick in, and everyone was so excited!

The day before our last rehersal went very well, and the set and costumes looked amazing! No one could belive tomorrow was the big day! Everyone had worked so hard, and it was moments away, especially the teachers and it started to get a bit scary as we knew that we had no time to change anything, but there was no need to as it looked great!

The next day came, and we had to be at school for 7:30 in the morning! But it wasnt as bad as we thought as all the excitement had kicked in! We got to Stevange where the atmosphere was amazing! And was great fun, it came to are turn to reherse on stage, and even though it was a rehersal we felt the nerves as all the other schools where watching! It was going so well, until we realised our set was slightly big for the stage.. But this was fine, as the teachers worked it all out, and managed it in our second rehersal which went so well! We got a lot of praise from the other schools, so I am guessing this ment they could see that we deserved that premier league title!

We had the day time events, where all schools would mix together and the atmosphere was amazing! I had so much fun, and this is what makes Rock Challange so special! Once this was all over with the manic started in the changing room, when everyone from all schools started to get ready for the show! It was great to see everyone with their hair and makeup done, as well as in their costumes! everyone looked fantastic! As we where waiting to go on stage the nerves had really started to kick in, we where standing in the room, steps away from the stage, we where waiting for the school before us to finish so are perfomance could begin!

It was finally are turn, and to hear our music start was petrifying! The whole performance went perfectly and to just have that experience was amazing! I had so much fun, the whole day was great we won 13 awards of exellence which made it even better than before! I really love being involved in Rock Challange, and I cant wait to go to Pourtsmouth and show everyone out there how amazing we are, and just the general feel of are first year in premier league and see all the other schools perform to such high standards!