MILL Chase Academy’s year 11 pupils showed how to do it in style when they held their prom night at Old Thorns Manor Hotel in Liphook, with the girls in stunning evening dresses and the boys in dinner jackets and suits with colourful ties.

The various methods of transport to, and from, the event, included car, bicycle and bus. Jordan Plant arrived on a quad bike pulled by six husky dogs with his girlfriend Frankie Smith on the pillion seat.

The theme of the prom was the musical Grease and many of staff joined the pupils on the terrace for soft drinks - alcohol was banned - before everyone sat down to a three-course meal in a restaurant that had been turned into an American-style diner. After the meal and before the dancing began, Beth Merton-Scott and James Island were voted prom king and queen.

Headteacher Paul Hemmings praised the 64 students who had attended the prom and said how impressed he had been by their behaviour, adding: “The school will miss you but look forward to seeing you come back on GCSE results day.”