HASLINGDEN HIGH SCHOOL
STREET dancer Mya Corbridge not only won her freestyle solo competition but, along with her team, won the team competition against older competitors.
Mya, 16, from Rising Bridge, is a student at Haslingden High School and attends the A Team Dance and Fitness in Accrington.
Along with other dancers from the A Team, Mya competed in the Soar Streetdance Festival in Bury.
She said: “In my category, for age 16 and under beginners’ freestyle solo, there were 11 entries and so they got everyone on the floor, dancing at the same time and then got the number down to six.
“Five of the six that were picked were friends of mine who also go to the A Team. When it came to the results, they read out 357 in second place and I knew that I had won.
“The judges select the music at random and I got an R&B track that I knew well so I knew how to interpret the lyrics.
“In the team event, it was the last time that one of our members Caitlin Flatley was going to be in the team because she is in Sixth Form at Haslingden High and is going to university.
“We were all determined to win for her; and we did.”
Mya has been dancing since she was eight, after her family returned from 11 months living in New Zealand.
She said: “This is the best result I have ever had and in the next competition I will be entered into the intermediate category.”
FIFTY students from Haslingden High School took part in a Duke of Edinburgh Bronze practice expedition.
They were in eight teams with half setting off from Ashworth Valley Scout Camp in Norden and half from Dearden Wood Campsite in Edenfield.
The teams had plotted their own routes between the two sites, a distance of approximately 10 miles, and then camped overnight before hiking back to their starting point.
On the second day, one of the teams encountered an unresponsive man about 500m from their camp and alerted their teachers who called out the ambulance service.
Fifteen-year-olds Neve Tyborczyk, Holly Taylor and Ella Edwards, and others made up an all-girl team.
Neve said: “We started at Ashworth Valley and on the first day we were supposed to do 10 miles but ended up doing 12 because we went a bit wrong.
“We missed a turning because we were trying to get to Edenfield, but not looking at the map.
“The best thing about the expedition was staying overnight on the campsite in a tent; it was good fun.”
On their second day walking, the group also took a wrong footpath, but this time they realised their mistake, checked it with their teachers and got back on the right route.
Holly, Neve and Ella learnt cooking for their skill, and football for their physical activity and Neve has been litter-picking in Ramsbottom for her voluntary work, while Holly and Ella worked in different primary schools.
Holly said: “I have enjoyed everything and being part of a team.”
The staff on hand to check up with students throughout the weekend were: Head of Year and Duke of Edinburgh lead Harry Ikin; Geography teacher Jon Raho; Biology teacher Paul Ridgway; teaching assistant Lee Trickett and teacher Matt Collis.