She knows that they want more than a school uniform to wear 7 days a week, and doesn’t mind some of them wearing new clothes, because they have bigger problems at home.

This indicates that Mrs Kay has a reputation as being unprofessional, stupid and is considered a bad teacher. Later in the play at the beach Carol goes missing. The teachers go searching for her and Briggs finds her stood on a cliff top. Russell includes this scene to convey to the audience how extreme the children’s situations are. He wants us to empathise with them and understand their difficult circumstances.Mr Briggs knows that these children have not been on a school visit before but still gives them no freedom. The film is about a Liverpool secondary school’s trip to Conwy Castle in North Wales during the 1970s. The school is situated in a deprived district of the city, with the majority of the pupils being from impoverished and troubled families.

In Andrew’s conversation with Mr Briggs, we see that he goes through an awful amount of deprivation at home. Mr Briggs has a terrible attitude problem, which is not appropriate for any teacher to have. His behaviour here, suggests that he doesn’t understand children. The whole purpose of teaching is to educate children in a positive and friendly environment, but he educates them in a negative environment, showing that he has more authority. He compares the children to rubbish.These children get little freedom at home, so they deserve to have some freedom at school. Mr Briggs is narrow minded and only thinks of himself. The most noticeable difference from the musical was the omission of the characters John and Mac, who, in the musical, are the rural shop owners in Wales who get robbed by the kids. In the filmed version, they are replaced by two women.