THE ROYAL School’s annual SHINE performing arts day took place with Year 4 pupils from Hale School, Hollycombe Primary School, Liphook, Waverley Abbey Junior, Tilford, Binsted CofE Primary and The Royal Junior School.

This year SHINE was based on the children’s classic Wind in the Willows. Pupils enjoyed dance, drama, art and music workshops designed to inspire creative expression at the Haslemere school.

The day saw the children perform a musical fight from the song The Recapture of Toad Hall by John Rutter, look at physical theatre interpretations to explore the locations and atmospheres of the story, create multi-coloured masks of creatures that inhabit the Wild Wood and devise a dance routine based on the opening scene from the book where Mole is spring cleaning.

Head of drama at The Royal School and mastermind of the event on February 26 Ed Taylor-Gooby said: "I was so pleased to see how engaged and buzzing the children were at SHINE. They really immersed themselves in every activity and I think everyone wished that the school day was longer.”