FUN TIMES: Sommerville Special School students really got into the hip hop day. From left: Nathan Keu, 12, Keenan Rasmussen, 11, partly obscured: Kaimoana Vaitohi, 14, Chance Te Whare, 14, Celene Thompson, 14, Monica Manawatu, 9. Front: Zinmar Hla, 12.
The students weren't the only ones who got into the spirit of Sommerville Special School's second hip hop day – the teachers also dressed up, and danced the day away.
More than 50 students travelled to Tamaki Recreation Centre last month to enjoy a day full of dancing, music, competitions and most of all fun.
Physical education and sports co-ordinator Ashwin Prasad says he had never seen some of the students move in the way they did.
"To see them expressing themselves though dance is just amazing," he says.
"They're really into it – music just makes them move."
There were freestyling, rapping and krumping competitions, and everyone was treated to a performance by the Bring it On – All Stars high school dance group.
Mr Prasad says these opportunities have to be created for the students so they have a way of expressing themselves, "because they don't often get the chance".
A group of five sports management students from Unitec had invited the school to participate.
The planning, preparation and delivery of the three and a half hour event was part of their event management paper.
Unitec student Gemma Delia was in awe of the students' stamina.
"I didn't expect them to be so in to it but they've been going hard since the word go," she says
They seemed to have enjoyed the day!
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Dancing was cool! We like to dance! We liked wearing cool clothes. We liked dancing with our mates like Vaughn. We won some prizes. Hip Hop Day was awesome!
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You all look so cool - What great costumes :)
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