School trip surprise as students meet The Rock
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Image source, BBC/Joshua FalconByJo Black, at Potters Field Park, London and George KingPublished30 June 2026, 13:28 BSTUpdated 10 minutes agoPrimary school pupils had the surprise of their lives when a trip to London turned into a face-to-face red-carpet meeting with wrestler-turned-Hollywood megastar Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
About 50 students from St Gregory Primary School in Sudbury, Suffolk, went to the capital on Tuesday for what they believed would be a standard "old-fashioned" excursion. Little did they know they would be attending the Moana Experience, an immersive event organised in support of the upcoming live action adaption of the hit 2016 film. Better still, the Years 3 and 4 students also got to meet Maui himself.
Image source, BBC/Joshua Falcon"It was awesome [to meet them] and they were losing their minds and going bonkers and going crazy," he told the BBC. "That's the fun part of fame and the best part of fame. This kind of stuff is important." Image source, ReutersThe star-studded encounter, at Potters Field Park next to the River Thames, was arranged by Disney and the school's headteacher, Daniel Woodrow.
They collaborated after the pupils recorded a social media video in January in the hope of getting The Rock's attention. Woodrow had told pupils that if the former WWE star saw the clip, he would take them to see the new Moana film for their end-of-year school trip.
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