Our Day Out

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GCSE Coursework English Literature

Our Day Out!

This play is called Our Day Out. It is about a school trip with a progress class to Conway castle in Wales.

These children are from an inner city school in a deprived part of Liverpool. Along the way the children get into trouble due too bad behaviour. Mrs Kay is the main teacher for the progress class she is shrewd, relaxed and realises that these children need lots of attention and encouragement. However Mr Briggs (who has been asked by the head teacher to go along) is one of the strictest teachers in the school and has little sympathy for, or understanding of the progress class. He also has a very different attitude towards education compared to Mrs Kay. Mr Briggs strongly believes that the children need to be disciplined and thinks that Mrs Kay is more like a 'mother rather than a teacher'. In 1970's when Willy Russell wrote the play there was a lack of money, lots of unemployment, economic recession, erosion of manual and unskilled work, poor education and prospects. Willy Russell uses the conflict between the teachers to show how the education for these