LAVENDER Primary School treated audiences to 100 years of dance when it celebrated its centenary last week.

Pupils from the school in Lavender Road, which first opened its gates in June 1909, performed dances from every decade since that year - including the Birdy Song by the reception class and Thriller by Year 6 pupils.

About 800 people came to the celebrations last Wednesday.

The audience also enjoyed extracts from a centenary book produced by the school which included entries from the school’s discipline book and daily diary.

Visitors were able to look around the school and see a variety of displays, including photographs from the Forties and Fifties to the First World War Army uniform of a former pupil.

TV singiing coach star Carrie Grant, a former pupil, was the guest of honour.

Mayor of Enfield Councillor Eleftherios Savva also joined in on the celebrations.

Lavender Primary School had been preparing for the event for six months.

The concert was among a month of centenary events, including a day when the whole school dressed in Edwardian clothing and had sepia class photographs taken as a memento of the day. A school trip to the seaside at Walton-on-The-Naze was also organised last Thursday.

Matthew Kleiner-Mann, headteacher at Lavender Primary School, said: "Our pupils are so lucky, they are witnessing history first-hand as these celebrations will form the first part of the next 100 years of Lavender’s history.

“The whole school community has had a fantastic time – taking 450 children to the seaside in a fleet of coaches was no easy task but it turned out to be a fantastic day which we will all remember for a very long time.”