THE HEAD HELD HIGH BLOG

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...

At Head Held High, we live and breathe speech and drama. Teaching 600+ students every week means we have a LOT of conversations about speech and drama with parents, school teachers, and principals. Often we chat with parents who are trying to decide on which performing arts programme around Auckland is most suited to their child? We’re not surprised we get asked this question a lot. A quick Google search of “Best drama classes in Auckland for kids” turns up a mountain of results that would take a long time to wade through and digest. So we wanted to give...

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...