Scott Davies was a student of Helen Booth’s over a decade ago (Picture: Anita Maric / SWNS)
When Scott Davies and Helen Booth first met in 2009, she was his teacher. Now, 15 years later, the pair are engaged to be married.
Scott, now 33, was a student at Barclay School sixth form in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, where Helen, 41, taught him PE.
In 2022, over a decade after Scott left school, they ended up reconnecting – but didn’t initially believe that they were romantically compatible.
However, they ended up falling in love, moving in together, and getting engaged in August 2024 on a beach in Ibiza with a crowd of 200 people cheering them on.
‘It’s a bit of a whirlwind story,’ Scott, now a primary school teacher and living with Helen in Shefford, Bedfordshire, says. ‘I never would have thought I’d marry my ex-teacher but we are very happy together.’
Scott and Helen are due to tie the knot next year (Picture: Scott Davies / SWNS)
The pair reconnected as Scott was interested in getting into teaching (Picture: Scott Davies / SWNS)
The pair first developed a friendship when Scott was 21, as he’d returned to his old school, where Helen still worked at the time, to coach cricket.
They were later reunited when Scott moved back to Stevenage from Birmingham in 2022 after a breakup, and he got back in touch with her to ask her some questions about getting into teaching.
‘At that point it was all professional – we were just touching base,’ Scott reflects. ‘I dropped her a message to see how she was, and we decided to meet up for a catch up at a bar. We had a drink but then we were like “is this a date?”’
After realising that they did have romantic potential, things moved quickly – and they ended up spending the next four days together. Neither of them had been ‘actively looking’ for a partner at the time, but as Scott notes, things ‘fell into place.’
In 2009, Helen was Scott’s PE teacher (Picture: Helen Booth)
Scott says Helen was the teacher everyone ‘had a crush on’ (Picture: Scott Davies)
‘It was lovely how well we got on straight away and how natural it was, we both believed it was a ‘catch up’ at first but now know it was our first date,’ Helen, who now works as a special educational needs coordinator at a middle school, adds.
Scott describes Helen as the one teacher everyone ‘had a crush on’ when they were at school – and, as such, his friends were ‘excited’ when they found out about their relationship.
‘They’d known how lovely Helen was as a person,’ Scott says.
‘It’s been interesting when friends of mine have met her as they also used to be taught by her. Initially some of them would still say ‘hi Miss’ – it was quite funny – one of them still does!’
Helen and Scott are hoping to have a baby in the future (Picture: Anita Maric / SWNS)
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Source:: Metro
