We recently had some wonderful visitors from the Cook Islands come to our school. The students were from a Primary School and ranged in ages from 5 to 12 years old. Their school Principal and lots of family members came with them to Australia.

  

The visitors were fantastic musicians and dancers. They performed for us in our COLA (covered outdoor learning area) which reverberated with the awesome sounds of the drums. All the adults played the drums and the students danced for us.

     

Sometimes the boys danced by themselves, sometimes the girls, and sometimes everyone danced together.

     

All the kids from our school clapped along and couldn’t wait to get up and join in  dancing with our visitors. Even the teachers got up and wriggled and jiggled to the drum beats 🙂

Finally, when everyone was exhausted we all sat back down and farewelled our newest friends. Wouldn’t it be exciting to visit them in the Cook Islands someday?