THE HEAD HELD HIGH BLOG

We’ve just passed Mother’s Day, a time when we sit back and reflect on everything the mothers in our lives do for us. At Head Held High, we interact with wonderful mums all the time, and we get to see just how much they do for their kids. But so much of what mothers do goes uncelebrated, by so many parts of society. Including (not surprisingly really), science. That’s slowly being corrected. Scientists are finding that almost everything a mother does with their child goes on to help them grow. Even the seemingly “little” things Mums do, help kids to...

Speech and drama exam season is approaching again! At Head Held High, exam season is one of our favourite times of the year. It’s the time when many of our students (last year 300+ of our 850 students took speech and drama exams) get to showcase all that they’ve learned throughout the year. And after they’ve done so, it’s a chance to bask in the feeling of achievement and accomplishment that only a well-taken exam can provide. We’ve previously written about our “7 top reasons to sit speech & drama exams”, from a teacher / adult perspective. Today’s story however,...

We all want our kids to be safe and grow up to be effective, productive people in the world. But during the chaos of Covid lockdowns, it sometimes felt like we couldn’t do both at the same time. Everyone sacrificed, but children were particularly susceptible to suffering emotional problems from the combination of lockdowns, online learning and social distancing. Luckily, there is a great way for children to overcome the setbacks in social development and the anxiety that were possibly caused by the Covid crisis. It turns out that speech and drama lessons are great ways for many children to...

  As we begin an exciting new year of lessons, back face-to-face (!!!) with our wonderful students, we’ve created a couple of videos to give you a sneak peek of what’s in the lesson plans for both speech and drama, and communications students this coming term. The first video relates to Junior students, while the second focuses on Intermediate and Senior students. The two videos feature our Head of Teaching, Erica Kröger, describing the skills that students will learn over the coming 10 weeks. She also goes a little deeper, and connects some dots for you about how exactly the...