Lockdown Living – Stagedoor Learning Account
Jenny Cameron at VLUK’s partner, Stagedoor Learning, gives her account of what lockdown life meant for her and our students.


The winning variety show, some of the poems of the day. and the time capsule videos can be viewed on our YouTube channel – https://www.youtube.com/ channel/UCLoR- 9FcqCWQStOUMHEYkYw/videos? view_as=subscriber
I asked three of the students for their comments…
Becky (2nd year student) – Continuing with work online throughout lockdown gave me a reason to keep motivated. It was fun doing singing lessons over zoom – it was really productive and I think I took in more doing it that way.
Mat (1st year student) – One of the most enjoyable pieces of work that I have completed during lockdown has been our group project for the Community Arts unit, where we developed and created various resources which were subsequently used for children in primary schools. Similarly, another memorable piece of work was our collective contribution to “Poem for the Day”. It was great to get the opportunity to see the streamed and previously recorded National Theatre Live productions, something which we might not otherwise have had the chance to see.
Emily (1st year student) – One of the things I’ve particularly enjoyed during lockdown has been participating in regular singing workshops via zoom, in which we’ve been able to focus on improving our technique, as well as maintaining the progress we’d made before lockdown. Something else I’ve enjoyed has been having weekly access to a range of different pre-recorded productions on National Theatre Live, as a replacement for our regular trips to the Everyman Theatre. As well as this, it was great to have the chance to record and edit our own virtual variety shows, as it’s given us the opportunity to still do an element of the practical and performance work we’d usually be doing at college, but at home.
VLUK are very proud of how all our education partners have handled this difficult situation and our students seem to have thrived during this time. The future for September looks very positive and all our partners are currently focusing on working with government guidelines to ensure a smooth transition for all our students.