English teacher, head of department, geek, avid reader of books, blogger
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Chris Curtis
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NEW BLOG: Oracy - talk is cheap but group work is costly
learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2026/05/orac...
NEW BLOG: Oracy - talk is cheap but group work is costly
learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2026/05/orac...
Well… 😂
A tremendous day celebrating RTT:AIC. A huge thank you to my fabulous co author, @hugheshaili.bsky.social. Our series editors @teachals.bsky.social & @spryke2.bsky.social. To every teacher who attended, thank you. @zarashah.bsky.social & @xris32.bsky.social 📚🩵
My sixth form formed an arts society with the boys one down the road with the sole purpose of buying group tickets at discounted rates. We went to see ballet and plays. It was brilliant! No teachers involved. But it was the trips through ks3 and ks4 that gave us the love of theatre to start with!
(I am talking about English here - there were other sch trips but the cost - financial and staffing - were massive)
Why we need to change our attitude towards theatre?
"We need it to be acceptable to take a small group to the theatre."
This this this! At a previous school we were told we had to offer school trips to an entire year, not just a small group. There were 240 kids in a year... of course we didn't run trips.
I remember going to see A View from the bridge at my local theatre. There was a group (possibly GCSE age) with a teacher next to me, and at the end, one of them turned to the teacher and just said, "WOW." That's what good theatre can do.
“The theatre was packed with students because it was a GCSE text they were studying.”
Going the theatre, an art gallery, or to a sporting event, with school should be and can be a lifelong memory - not just a revision task.
For some kids, this is their only opportunity to see more of the world.
