TWENTY Horsham Special School students waltzed, jived and two stepped their way into Wimmera residents' hearts on Thursday night.
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A crowd of 260 watched as the students took part in the school's second ever debutante ball at Horsham Town Hall.
The students, some of them at their second ball after the first in 2017, put their skills, interests and dreams for the future on display. Hudson Miller, 16, said he found the crowd amazing.
"My mum, my sister, my dad and my nan were all here," he said.
"It feels good. I've done this all on my own with my partner Ashley, and you just feel happy."
After the presentation dances concluded, Hudson shared his special dance with his grandmother Margaret.
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Jan Morris returned to train the students for the second ball, enlisting former St. Brigid's College students Racheal Krahe and James McRae to help her across the five weeks leading up to the evening.
"I believe if you've got any talent and you're 78 like me, you should be handing it on so it doesn't just stop," she said.
"Racheal has been with me since her own deb ball, and she did and James did most of the training this time around, so I really just finished it off.
"It's a pretty good feeling for me to have a succession plan ready to go."
Mrs Morris said the students listened hard and well during practice.
"They're that excited to do it, it's very rewarding," she said.
The theme of the ball, "fingerprints", reflected the school's hope that the students would be appreciated for their individual abilities.
School council president Andrea Mugari congratulated the students.
"Each and every one of you should be extremely proud, because we are," she said.
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