School: Year 7 Dance and PE

Kayleigh had Ms Heading for Dance and PE in Year 7. Kayleigh chose to do dance in the first semester of year 7 even though she had no experience with dance or anything like it. She was in a class with some of the girls that were nasty to her in year 6 and it made her self conscious about what she was doing. Kayleigh had co-ordination but lacked rhythm. Ms Heading mentioned that Kayleigh was the most flexible girl she had in dance but Kayleigh found it difficult to 'get' some of the moves - she particularly had trouble with 'popping'. One of her friends told us that she had been trying to show Kayleigh how to do the move properly and ended up doing it the way Kayleigh was instead - which they both found really funny. The only part of dance Kayleigh didn't like was the assignment - she had to watch 'Step Up' (a movie) and answer some questions. Now Kayleigh favourite types of movies don't include American style 'bad boy meets good girl' dance movies and she found it extremely tedious to watch - and she forced me to watch it to so I could help her with her assignment if necessary. Kayleigh got a B for Dance and an A for PE.