THE HEAD HELD HIGH BLOG

If you’re considering speech and drama lessons for your child or teen, what images do you imagine? Do you conjure up a classroom full of outgoing, confident kids with their sights set on Hollywood or Shortland Street? Has your child/teen shown an interest in the peforming arts and been pestering you to do some classes? Have you noticed what you suspect could be a glimmer of creative talent or passion, and don’t want to miss the opportunity to nurture it? Or perhaps you’ve heard of speech and drama lessons and are simply  curious about whether they might be beneficial for...

It’s a question we often hear at Head Held High… “what’s the difference between speech & drama lessons, and drama classes?” Our world is full of curious little things with seemingly little or no differences between them, that can confuse us. Sometimes for many years. We end up wondering whether X and Y the same thing with two names, or are they just similar things that we don’t understand the nuances of?   Take, for example, granola and muesli? What is the difference between these two breakfast favourites? Are they grainy cousins – related yet distinct? Or are they the...

Head Held High Senior student spotlight A common misconception about Head Held High is that we only teach speech and drama lessons for little kids. That couldn’t be further from the truth. As well as running adult public speaking courses, we also have lots of senior students (Year 9 – 13) who take speech and drama or communications lessons with us. In this “Senior Student Spotlight” interview, we chat with Josh Doubtfire. He’s a prime example of the fantastic things being done by our senior students; using his skills learned at Head Held High to better himself, his career, and...

  Exams. They’re the source of much debate in schooling systems the world over. At Head Held High, many of our students sit Trinity speech and drama exams in the latter stages of each year. (See our related blog post, 7 reasons to sit Trinity speech & drama exams). Many of our students also sit Speech NZ exams. Contrary to the way you may imagine students approaching academic exams at school, our students approach their speech and drama exams with a sense of excitement, anticipation and eagerness. Why is that?