People on the street: Saying thank you to the teacher who has changed your life

We went out into Manchester to ask people on the street about the teachers who have made the biggest difference to their life.

Transcript

00:00Hello and welcome to Manchester World. My name's Theo Hewson Betts. Today I'm going out onto the

00:03streets of Manchester to ask people about Thank A Teacher Day. It's a very, very simple one,

00:07hopefully a nice video for you too. We want to know if there's a particular teacher that has

00:11meant a lot to someone, whether it's their kids' teacher or someone who meant a lot to them.

00:15I mean, currently Mrs Evans, yep, she looks after our son and, yeah.

00:20Four-year-old. Five-year-old. Oh yes, turned five last week, yeah, yeah.

00:24Uh, Wynne Moran, um, she was my college teacher, A-level drama. Uh, huge inspiration, um, wonderful person,

00:33like, almost like a mum as much as a teacher. Wonderful, great, inspiring, um, got me into

00:39some really interesting theatre, away from kind of like the standard stuff that you'd normally do, so yeah.

00:44And I would say Mr Simpson is my eldest son's teacher who helped him through difficult times.

00:51He was very good. He was quite a scary teacher on the face of it, but in terms of his pastoral

00:57abilities, it was fantastic.