WE were part of our school's gymnastics team. We went to a gymnastics festival that was at King James I Comprehensive School, Bishop Auckland.

Mr Lockey trained us for several weeks and then Mrs Oswald took us to the festival, because Mr Lockey had a football match that day.

The festival took place on March 27. It started at 1pm and finished at 4pm.

We developed a routine to a piece of music called Children, by Robert Miles.

We rehearsed the routine lots of times before going to the festival.

When we got to King James School we went into the gym and warmed up on some mats. We then went into another room and watched the infants do their bit. Then we had our go and it was really exciting. After that we had some juice. Finally, we went to the top of the hall and got our goody bags. We were given lovely certificates for our achievement.