ABSTRACT
In Liverpool, some years ago, Home-School Harry was produced, played by a leading theatre-in-education exponent. An impudent, personable character, in a distinctive green and orange suit, he became the spearhead of the home-school assault. At each school Harry left a joke-certificate of his attendance and, from each school, received a gift, often a model or collage representing him, or a personal present such as a motorcar or a nine-foot dinosaur. Home-School Harry is in the laudable tradition of Sunny Jim, Mr Cube and World-Cup Willy and, as a symbol, he succeeded beyond our wildest fantasties. The story of ‘Support Our Schools’ weeks, together with the tale of Coventry’s ‘Educational Happening’, made another salutary point. In both these cases, under the aegis of authority-sponsored officers, groups of schools were co-ordinated for fuller impact.
