A huge well done to all my pupils who took their graded LAMDA exams in Solo Acting, the Speaking of Verse & Prose and Speaking in Public yesterday at Gresham’s Senior School. Seventeen pupils from Gresham’s Prep School, Beeston Hall Read more…
I was reading an extract from Enid Blyton’s ‘The Faraway Tree’ to my youngest pupil the other day and decided to write her a poem about the cherry tree in her garden… (and this is her illustration for it). If Read more…
It was seventy five years ago this very day – That the proud Allied Forces were able to say – The enemy was defeated, the war at an end – We hugged all our loved ones, our family, our friends… Read more…
I showed this photo to some of my younger pupils the other day – with a view of using it as a visual aid for the Speaking in Public syllabus. I asked them to make a list of bullet points Read more…
One of my favourite poems when I was a child was ‘From a Railway Carriage’ by Robert Louis Stevenson. The poem gives us a glimpse into a railway journey through the sprightly rhythm of verse used to evoke the movement of a Read more…
The new LAMDA anthologies were published – in all their technicolour glory – last summer and I was more than a little excited when the parcel arrived with my pristine copies inside. The anthologies are published every few years, so Read more…