Evaluations

What the customers said is worth much more than any amount of my own trumpet-blowing!
I could more than fill the entire website with extracts from children's letters, teachers' evaluations, and verbal comments.
Here are just a representative few.

The first selection is of extracts photopcopied from children's letters to me.

... and just a small selection of the hundreds of positive teacher evaluation sheets...

Verbal comments: I've lost count of the number of "Coooooooooool" 's from children!
(or "Wicked" "Mental" "Mint" and whatever else happens to be that week's expression!)

A teacher at one school where I first visited some years earlier, reported that I'd taught her now 16-year old son when he was only 9.
When she told him I was now returning, he said he still thought of it as a really good day, and could even still dance some of the steps and remembered some of the song words.

After seeing my Medieval music presentation for English Heritage at Farleigh Hungerford, a visitor came up and told me, "That's the best explanation of medieval music I've ever seen - and I teach music."

I'm most proud of the Deputy Head of a Northants school who told me, "Richard, you teach quite subversively!
They think they're just enjoying a good day, and don't realise how much they're actually learning!"
(This is the only quote I use twice on this site!)

Custodians at any number of Heritage sites to us both: "You're our favourite interpreters/performers/musicians."

A parent at one school where I've visited consecutively for over 12 years told me at the end of the afternoon presentation that she's just seen her fifth child taking part.
She said she was only sorry she didn't have any more - she was going to miss it next year.