THE HEAD HELD HIGH BLOG

In the two videos below our Head of Teaching, Erica Kröger, gives some insight into what’s in the lesson plans for Head Held High students this coming term. The first video profiles the lesson content for junior students (Years 1 – 6), while the second video profiles the lesson content for intermediate (Years 7/8) and senior students (Years 9 – 13). We shoot these videos for you – our students’ parents – as a preview to every term to help you understand what’s happening in your child/teenager’s Head Held High lessons. They give you a sneak peek into the learning...

Many Head Held High student parents reading this will be very aware that public speaking modules and competitions in primary schools around Auckland are evolving. Goodbye to the one-size-fits-all approach. Goodbye to all kids being forced to do a “classic” 3 minute speech. Hello to three new, exciting speech formats for children to choose from, including ‘spoken word’, ‘rap’ and ‘flash talks’.

At the time of publishing this blog post, New Zealand has been in Level 1 of Covid-19 safety precautions for 24 hours. The country is in the extremely fortunate position of being able to open up again, schools included. At Head Held High, this means that after 2.5 months of teaching weekly 700 students online, we can now enter schools again and see our wonderful students in the flesh! This is a wonderful feeling, and we are reveling in the joy of teacher-student reunions this week.

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.