As Covid-19 lockdown loomed on the horizon, we faced an uncertain time at Head Held High. A month ago, it was incomprehensible to teach lessons without being able to see, hear and interact with all our talented students… Yet, once the decision was made to do online speech and drama teaching, the whole team ramped up to get everything ready.
In this week’s blog post, read a true story of channeling speech & drama skills to overcome fear, as experienced by one of our fabulous teachers – Jess Macdonald. As I stepped up to the stage, adrenaline and fear coursing through my body, I wondered how on earth I’d got there. Now, two months later, I’m happy to say it was because of your children.
At Head Held High, our speech and drama lessons follow a set structure which provides stability and continuity for students. This means they, and you, can know what to expect each week! We start each lesson by exchanging some news – about what they’ve enjoyed that week or through another interesting conversation topic – and this give all students an opportunity to hold the space and engage with their classmates and teacher. Students might not have said much in class during their school day, and what might seem like an informal start to our lessons is actually key to building...
It’s Christmas come early for us this week at Head Held High! Our presents have arrived ahead of schedule, in the form of our students’ Trinity College of London exam results. About 230 of our students sat Trinity speech and drama exams in October and November this year, and at the time of writing about 90% of those results have come back to us. We’re extremely excited and proud to say that not only have all of those students passed their exams – across all of the results we have received so far, but the students have also averaged...
