We started Best with the idea of doing one public show a
year and then occasionally inviting parents in to see the kind of things the
students had been up to during the term. More and more we found the pressure
was increasing for us to ‘prove value’ and that our end of term showings were
being misinterpreted as quasi-full-on shows. This is not the case but we feel
that we may have blurred the boundaries somewhat recently through staging
Alice, then a panto with Robin Hood, and then going into our planned public show.
The pressure to deliver this perceived value (i.e. an end
result) means that we have less time to teach technique and to let the children
experiment and relax. We want to bring that back.
So we intend to revert back to our
original schedule with one full production a year (at Easter) and then for the
other two terms taking the focus off rehearsal and line learning and back onto
technique, progress and real teaching. To be honest it would be a massive
relief to all of us and we think to the students as well. We just have to be
better at communicating with you, the parents, exactly what it is the children
are doing each term. In this way we can have much more fun and the children
will progress much faster.
And you’ll still get to see things at the end of
term – just not ‘fully rehearsed shows’ so it will be much more representative of
what the children have been up to.
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