Broadened Curriculums, stronger relationships and more enjoyable teaching
Background I recently took the decision to move schools, this has been a difficult process for me and the final few weeks at my school exposed some emotional ties I didn’t even recognise I had with colleagues and students (more on this in a later blog). The one event I’d like to highlight is a visit I took to my school’s production of Evita. After telling my year 11s it would be unlikely that I would be going to their prom for various reasons I promised I would go watch the school production which many of them performed in. On This Night of a Thousand Stars I was fortunate enough to be able to help talk to a few students backstage before the production, instantly I knew there was something not quite tangible in the air: something, for lack of a less clich é d term, magical. The look of excitement on the students faces was invigorating, the anticipation was mounting: makeup was being applied, hair fixed, lines rehearsed, nerves raised and consequently settled. I left th