Jai can be best described as a thoughtful, intellectually curious, dedicated and unflailingly thorough student who displays consistent maturity in the pursuit of academic success... Jai's precocious talents are always supplemented by rigorous background work.
Richard Malpass
English Teacher (2012-2014)
[Jai] has achieved a sophisticated writing style, manipulating language with a mature understanding of its impact on the reader... he displays initiative and leadership, evaluating and synthesising others' contributions to move the group towards positive solutions.
Katherine Chuter
English Teacher (2010-2012)
Jai is a very meticulous individual who works in an extrodinary amount of detail on all aspects of theatre... He really enjoyed his directing assignment, for example, and did hours of extra work in his own time to study the Theatre Practictioner we were exploring.
Sara Carter
Theatre Teacher (2012-2014)
Mr Simon van der Borgh
Screenwriting, including adaptation, genre films & hi-concept movies; short films; the function of character in the creation of compelling screen stories and story structure; the form & function of scenes in scene-writing; Theatre, especially playwriting; the Australian film & TV industry.
simon.vanderborgh@york.ac.uk