Then in the third scene Briggs and the headmaster are talking and the Headmaster and asks Briggs to then says, “ I don’t want to be unprofessional and talk about a member of staff but I gat the impression she treats it as a long game”. Even though he said I don’t want to be unprofessional he was being unprofessional! Then Briggs replies by saying, “ Well…If the antics in her department are anything to go by…! She has always reminded my more of a mother hen than a teacher.” Mr Briggs hates the way Mrs Kay has a relationship with the pupils.
The next scene Reilly and Digga are asking to but they got moved out of the progress class because they could read and write. So they went and asked and they were allowed to go. Carol was tugging Mrs Kay’s arm for attention she said, “Where are we going miss,” this shows that she is very forgetful Mrs Kay tell her they are going to Conway castle in Wales and carol said, “ will you have to get a boat,” this show how much of her country she knows about. The next important bit is when the Driver said “you haven’t checked then have y’?” then Mrs Kay replied “ Checked them? Checked them for what?” Driver “ Chocolate and lemonade! We don’t allow it. I’ve seen it on other coaches, madam; fifty-two vomitin’ kids, its no joke. I’m sorry but we don’t allow that.” The driver seems quite harsh and takes extreme measures. Mrs Kay doesn’t have the time to check all the children for sweets and lemonade so she speaks with the driver, which is quite an amusing talk. Then Mrs Kay said “ Just take a look at those streets. Ronnie, would you say that they were the sort of streets that housed prosperous parents?”
Mrs Kay says a number of other things in order to make Ronnie feel guilty and wrongful. She says how they don’t even get to eat chocolate they look at it in the shop windows and wish they could have it. When the driver gets back on the coach the kids hide their chocolate and lemonade and Ronnie, to make himself feel more comfortable, gives one of the kids some money to go and get some sweets for all of them to share. On the coach journey social disadvantage is shown in many times in the conversations the people have. One instance is where Carol and Mrs Kay are speaking she asks if she would ever be able to live a better lifestyle. Carol said “I like them nice places” then Mrs Kay said what places. Know them places on the telly with gardens, an’ trees outside an’ that” this shows that carol has dreams. Then carol said, “They planted some after the riots. But the kids chopped them down an’ burnt them on bonfire night” any sign of beauty in Liverpool is destroyed. The carol asked her if she worked hard could she be able to live in one of those nice places Mrs Kay said well you could try to keep the dream alive. Another person who is having a hard life is Andrews doesn’t have a very good home life either he has been smoking for five years and his parents know about it. His mother and father don’t live together. Andrews “ Sir, he just comes round every now an’ then an’ has a barney with me mum. Then he goes off again. I think he tries to get money off her but she won’t give him it though. She hates him. We all hate him.” Mr Briggs seems quite upset about these children and their lives that they live. He tells Andrews to try and stop smoking and he doesn’t seem to understand at first what the children are telling him, it takes him a while to realise how poor they are. The kind of language between the teachers and the children also shows the social disadvantage, the children have a very limited vocabulary and strong accents where the teachers don’t have very strong accents.
In the next scene there is a roadside café but when they see that they see the sign Liverpool to Conway they lock up their shop and would not let them in I believe that this is because they have had the shop for a good while and from there experiences the children of Liverpool are little thieves. When I read this I thought that it was a bit unfair the way they were stereotyping these children from Liverpool but by the time they reach the next shop they were right to do what they did. John and Mac who owned this shop after the other ladies licked up were crooks they raised their prices because it was passing trade but it was quite ironic that when they were trying to rob the children the children robbed them.
The next scene Mrs Kay decides to bring the children to the zoo she also ignored every thing that Mr Briggs had to say. She also puts Briggs in the middle of it by saying that he knows a lot about animals and she knows nothing.
In the Zoo scene and great augment is raised about the bear in the pit. Ronson believes that if it was not in a pit it would not try and kill people he thinks it’s cruel to put it in a pit. Briggs thinks that if its born in captivity it will not know any other way and he thinks its not cruel if its treated well. But Ronson believes that it does know other ways he thinks it kills people cause they are cruel to it. Briggs think that no amount of kindness can change that. I think that Ronson is comparing the animal to the children of Liverpool; he thinks that if you give it freedom it will not hurt people so its like saying if you get the children out of poverty they will not resort to crime. Later that scene Briggs decides to trust a pupil by letting them go to the Children’s zoo alone this was a mistake Briggs made as the children let him down. Briggs is starting to get along with Mrs Kay as they are having a cup of coffee together. Briggs is quite amazed that the children are very interested in the animals. Then Briggs offers to show the children some slides when they get back to school. But when they get back on the coach the zoo keeper runs up to the bus and calls the children animals and saying that the bloody zoos in here. This shows how the keeper thinks they have no sense of right and wrong. Also the kid portrayed Briggs trust, just when he was starting to like them.
When they reach Conway castle the group with brigs are learning stuff and the group with Mrs Kay are playing. Carol is sitting on her own then Mrs Kay goes and talks to her, carol says she does not like the castle, she said she would rather just sit their with Mrs Kay looking at the lake even though it was the sea. This shows that carol has not scene the sea before. Also another reason why she may hate it its like home all brick. Carol then says that if they had something to in there area they would just wreck it. Then she says if it was ours not the corpys we would protect it but the corpy is them.
Mrs kay and Briggs are starting to argue about each others way of treating this trip. Mr Briggs looks at it as educational and Mrs kay looks at it as a day out for the kids. When Mrs Kay said, “There's no point in pretending that a day out to Wales is going to furnish them with the education they should have had a long time ago. Its to late most of them were rejects the day they born. “She is saying that they were destined at birth for the scrap heap of humanity. Then Briggs said, “that’s a fine attitude for a member of the teaching profession to have,” He cant except that it’s a waste of time. Then Mrs Kay says, “ even if you cared, do you think you could educate these kids, my remedial kids? Because you are a fool if you do. You wont educate them because no one wants them educated. She goes on to say that the factories of England would be empty overnight. So the countries needs their failures to do the jobs no one wants to do. Then Mrs Kay says we are going to the beach. Once again without consulting the other teachers.
At the beach Briggs sits alone. Carol in this scene is not having fun because she is not looking forward to going home and this is the first clue that was give n that she does not want too go home at all costs.
The next scene carol as gone missing. Mrs Kay asks Briggs had he seen her he said, “ no,” then she said “I think she wandered of somewhere,” then Briggs said, “so you have lost her.” He was very quick to blame Mrs Kay. So then they all go looking for her and Briggs found her.
At the cliff scene Briggs is surprised by carols anger and the way she want to stay in Wales. At the start before carol said she would jump Briggs was calling the shots. When she says it brig is astonished. Then carol said to Briggs you wouldn’t care if I jumped. Then Briggs said, “ Then why am I here trying to stop you.” Then carol said, “ because if I jump over, you will get in trouble when you get back to school. That why Briggsy you hate me! What carol said was true to a certain extent. Briggs told lies in the end to stop her jumping by saying when she is old she could get a good job and move out there. Then she said don’t be frigging stupid she knows it cannot be. Then carol says if you had been my old man id be all right. So she thinks Briggs is well of. Then at the end of the heat felt conversation Briggs reaches out his hand and brings her back and neither of them would tell any one what happened.
Then the Briggs in the next scene is different to the children he even brought them to the fair ground. Then at the very end when they got back to school Mr Briggs says he will get the photos developed but at the very end he exposes it to light he does this because he wants things to do back to normal. And does not want to lose respect from his pupils.
