GLEE Performance at Aotea Centre:

We felt our children were amazing - even more so becaue they are all year three and four children. Apparently, the judges fully agreed.

They rated our children Amazing for theme choice, continuity of theme, and performers working together as a team.

They rated our children Great for their performance skills.

They rated our performance Amazing for character and plot.

Our styling and costumes were also rated as Amazing.

Our props rated a Great and we won special awards for our use of the Video Wall and Music.

MARKING SHEET COMMENTS

Metamorphosis Performance

"It's wonderful when entries embark on an original story, even if hinged on the journey of metamorphosis. The Screen work was a short film in its own right, so well done for all the extra work that went in there - and for showing how well the two parts can work together. We loved the caterpillars - real and egg carton ones! The story moved forward really well. Great transitions between items - all felt like one piece. We liked the shapes created on the stage - simple moves can have great successes. The costumes were fun and colourful. The tinsel sticks were fun also. Well done, team - you worked together well and were clearly enjoying yourselves."

To put these achievements into perspective, our children were all in year 3 or 4. They were competing against full primaries and intermediate schools. The top achiever at this year's ShowQuest was Northcross Intermediate, with over 1,300 year 7 and 8 students.

Below is the official Showquest video of their performance - which can be found on YouTube  -  here   at the 24 minutes 27 seconds mark.

PS - we finally got all our original YouTube content back (328) videos spanning five years!