only to revert to his usual self at the end of the day. In doing so, he destroyed all the positive achievements of the day.
             This play is about a progress class which go on a trip for the first time, Mrs Kay cares for the children a great deal and just wants them to have fun as long as they don‘t hurt anyone or themselves. The deputy head who joins the trip unexpectedly changes this and believes they should be quiet and not have so much fun I order to learn. As the day goes on the children get up to all sorts of mischief including stealing, eventually the deputy head finds out about this and his attitude towards the kids deteriorate further. Mr Briggs just wants to get them back to school as soon as possible. When put into a situation however with one of the children threatening to jump from a cliff he loosens up and takes the class to the fair where they have a great time. However at the end of the day Mr Briggs takes the negatives of him being fun and happy and exposes them to the light.
             At the start of the play you learn a bit about the children and the type of lives that they live. They are living in the inner city of Liverpool, which comes across as a poor area and where council homes are situated. The first character introduced to us is Carol, a younger girl who explains what the progress class is and that they are going on a trip. She seems to lack intelligence and it doesn‘t seem as if she is taught much at school. She also seems to have a very strong accent.
             CAROL "Don‘t y‘ know what the progress class is? It‘s Mrs Kay‘s class. Y‘ go down there in the week if y‘ can‘t do readin‘ or sums or writin‘. If you‘re backward like."
             LES "By Christ, I‘ll bet she‘s kept busy. They‘re all bloody backward round here."
             At the start we also meet two other main kids, Reilly and Digga. We learn that they used to be in the progress class.
             REIL...