On Saturday 27 April the Year 11 Students had our Debutante Ball. Excitement had been felt all throughout the year level for many months as the girls got busy booking appointments and shopping for the perfect dress. The day we had all been waiting for had finally arrived.

Everyone's day started very early with one appointment after another, and as the couples came together for photos with their friends the nerves and excitement began to build. Many debutants arrived in style as couple after couple stepped out of limousines, and walked up the steps to Melrose, where all eyes were on them. Everyone looked amazing as they arrived.

When we arrived we were directed to the lovely photographers who snapped many incredible pics of the debutants and their partners.

By 5pm the countdown was on. We all hit the dance floor one last time before the big night, learning the art of dancing in our beautiful dresses and handsome suits. After an exciting and exhausting day of preparation it came time to put all our hard work on display for the many family and friends that attended the evening. It was officially time to dance. To set the night off right the gentlemen entered the spotlight and performed an energetic and fun dance to ‘Uptown Funk’, and then began the debutante presentations. As each couple was presented the nerves began to settle and we all patiently waited upstairs silently for our cue to walk onto the dance floor for our first dance of the night; ‘tustfall’. As the debutants graciously danced around the floor led by their partners all eyes and cameras were on us. Before we knew it all 3 of our formal dances were done and after a quick break we were all called back to the floor to dance 3 encore dances, and then to wrap up the night the girls stayed on the floor added some spice to the night as we danced to ‘Spice Up Your Life’.

The night was a tremendous success and could not have been if it wasn't for our awesome dance instructors, Gayle and Andrew, the numerous staff who stayed back for our dance lessons each Thursday and the friends and family who picked us up after those dance lessons, helped organise appointments and lifts to Melrose and of course Mr Diamond and Mr Matthews who put in lots of work behind the scenes to organise the night and make sure it ran as well as it did. Thank you to all who helped.