FIVE schools from the Bradford district will take centre stage in a theatrical performance competition.

Buttershaw Business and Enterprise College, as a showcasing premier team, Southfield School, Bradford, and Shipley College in Saltaire will compete alongside eight other schools in the Rock Challenge event on Friday, March 9, at the Magna Science Adventure Centre, Rotherham.

Meanwhile, High Crags Academy in Shipley and Beckfoot Allerton Primary School, Bradford, will battle it out with four other schools in the Rock Challenge and J Rock at the same venue the next day.

The Rock Challenge sees participating schools produce musical and theatrical performances. They are marked on production, design and performance.

School teams made up of from 20 to 100 performers decides on a theme, create the choreography for their five to eight-minute dance-drama performance, record the music for their soundtrack, and design and make their sets and costumes.