PROUD pupils will be displaying their dance moves for friends and family at a showcase on Thursday evening.

And on Wednesday the cast of Churchfields School's Annual Dance Showcase strutted their stuff for a critical audience from its feeder primary schools with extracts from the show.

Pupils from Years 7 through to 11 will be performing at the school Thursday night, showing off their moves picked up in dance lessons during and after school, with some of the keenest dancers also taking lessons away from the classroom.

Around 120 youngsters from Drove and Lawn primary schools filled the school hall for the performance on Wednesday morning.

More then 50 pupils at the school are taking part, including a group of around 15 boys.

Performing arts director and dance teacher Caroline Jarvis said that the school had a growing number of boys enjoying the subject and opting to take it at GCSE level.

"There is very much a culture of boys taking dance here, whereas at other schools there's a culture that they don't.

"One of the dances they are in is full of running and jumping over chairs, which is really energetic and for the first time the boys are dancing with the girls in mixed and partner dances.

"Our dance showcase is one of the highlights of our performance programme. Now it's in its seventh year and the standard just gets better and better and the students love the opportunity to perform their work"

A range of styles will be on show during the performance, ranging from a ballet solo through to street and jazz dance, combined with basketball, bhangra, street and Spanish dance.

Last minute rehearsals have been taking place in any available space in the performing arts block at the school, with chart tracks filling corridors and dance studios.