AS THOUSANDS of festival-goers raved at Glastonbury this weekend, children at ‘Kidstock’ showed them how it should be done.

Aspiring stars from six Kidlington primary schools took to the stage to perform an eclectic range of music, song, dance and drama to about 2,000 of their peers at West Kidlington Primary School.

And this year they smashed their own attendance record, with the biggest Kidstock yet.

Julie Holland, deputy headteacher since April, has been at the school for 12 years, The Cowley resident said: “It was marvellous and we had 2,500 over the day which is a new record. We ordered 2,000 wristbands and we had to have emergency wristbands.

“This is the fourth year but this is the first year we have had all of the Kidlington primary schools, which were West Kidlington Primary School, North Kidlington Primary, Edward Feild Primary School, St Thomas More and Doctor South.

“There was also Gosford Hill Secondary School and Wolvercote Primary School, who brought musicians and pupils.”

The annual summer festival, held on Friday, coincided this year with the Glastonbury Festival weekend.

Mrs Holland said: “The pupils had a good old time. At one point all the Year 2 pupils from all the schools all played ‘Walking on Sunshine’ and ‘We’re all going on a summer holiday’.”

Performer Jake Owen, nine, said: “I sang The Frog Chorus and Siyahamba. It was fun.”

Tino Saliki, eight, said: “I think Kidstock is very nice because there’s a lot of fun stuff to do, and you can try new things.”

A range of activities including plate-spinning, dressing up and a ‘string maze’ to thread through kept visitors occupied throughout the day.

Sarah Neale, 10, said: “It’s nice to see people having smiles on their faces.”

Helping out were five members from Oxfordshire Music Service, including music development leader Chuck Lloyd, a member of the Rabbit Foot Spasm Band.