The students took part in the Yorkshire heat of Global Rock Challenge.

The event, promoted in this country by the Be Your Best foundation, is a dance and performing arts competition for young people, in which teams perform an 8 minute routine to rock music, in front of a paying audience.

They compete for prizes and a chance to go through to the Rock Challenge Grand Final. Students are offered the chance to experience a 'high' without the need for drugs, tobacco or alcohol; indeed every Lawnswood student taking part had to sign a pledge agreeing to this.

Each team has to come up with a theme and Lawnswood's inaugural effort in the competition had the title 'Don't Call us Faceless Hoodies'. The event was watched by a 3000 plus capacity audience at St George's Hall in Bradford and you would have struggled to find someone who didn't agree that Lawnswood certainly made their mark.

Amazingly, the Lawnswood team, although supported and supervised by staff from the school, was a totally student led enterprise.

Year 10 student, Mollie Tuck, of Weetwood, devised the concept, choreographed the routine and taught all of the dancers, few of whom had ever had any dance training, let alone danced on a professional stage before.

Thirty pupils aged between eleven and sixteen years of age produced a performance to remember. Other schools screamed their approval as the team stepped out both in rehearsal and in the evening performance.

Lawnswood were awarded a prize for 'Best Interpretation of Concept' and the judges told the team they were "very impressive with strong focus, fantastic energy and projection, very tight and slick."

The student stage and lighting crew were praised for their professionalism and Rock challenge staff, who have seen 12 years worth of schools and teams in the UK said that Lawnwood were, quite simply, "the most refreshing and energetic new team2 they had seen and they had the capacity to be big winners in the future.

But it was Mollie, herself, who was singled out for the most praise, being nominated for a student leader award and being asked by other schools to help with their choreography for future events.