The Year 5 and Year 6 students made it through the audition process and have been selected to perform alongside 5500 students from 370 schools across the state.

Principal Kathryn McNee said the school has been building a dance program for a number of years.

"We have been entering the Schools Spectacular for about six years. Every second year we enter a group of Year 5 and 6 students which is off the back of our dance program at the school," she said.

"The school has been slowly encouraging dance over time, especially with Katie James as our Learning Support Officer."

Ms James runs the dance program at the school and teaches students from Year 4 to Year 6 a variety of dance techniques and styles.

"The students are very dedicated," she said.

"We've just recently had a group perform in the Lower North Coast Dance Festival made up of students from a number of schools in the area. We want to start this up in the Macleay and encourage more schools to join in."

The group of 10 students from Aldavilla Primary were over the moon when they heard the news they had been selected to perform at Schools Spectacular.

"They were screaming and just completely ecstatic when they found out," Ms McNee said.

"They kept asking me after the audition if they had gotten in, they were really excited," Ms James added.

The group will now work on their performance leading up to the Schools Spectacular on November 22 and 23 in Sydney.

"It's really wonderful for the students to have this opportunity being a rural school, it's a once in a lifetime experience for them," Ms McNee said.

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