Scott Davies and Helen Booth at home in Shefford. Release date September 8 2024. A man has fallen in love and got engaged to his former PE teacher - 13 years after she taught him in college - and says his mates still call her 'Miss'. Scott Davies, 33, and Helen Booth, 41, first became acquainted back in 2009 - when he was a student at Barclay School sixth form in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, and taught him PE. They crossed paths again 13 years later in 2022 in Stevenage - initially having no inkling there was any romantic potential.
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.’

Couple Helen Booth and Scott Davies pose together, wearing a black and white striped dress and a white shirt and black trousers
Scott and Helen are due to tie the knot next year (Picture: Scott Davies / SWNS)
Couple Helen Booth and Scott Davies take a selfie in a restaurant, as he wears a black shirt and she a pink off-the-shoulder top
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.’

Teacher Helen Booth on holiday in 2009
In 2009, Helen was Scott’s PE teacher (Picture: Helen Booth)
Scott Davies pictured in year 13 of secondary school, wearing a white pinstripe shirt, black waistcoat and black tie
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!’

Couple Helen Booth and Scott Davies are pictured smiling at one another in their garden while holding a football each. She wears a white top and light blue jeans, and he wears a light blue shirt and blue jeans
Helen and Scott are hoping to have a baby in the future (Picture: Anita Maric / SWNS)

Likewise, some of Helen’s friends are also Scott’s former teachers, and at first, he shied away from telling his parents that she used to teach him.

‘I let my parents meet her first without mentioning anything, then after, I dropped it in – “oh, by the way, she used to teach me,”’ he says, noting that his parents were completely fine with it.

‘Obviously it’s quite a funny story – we never had any idea all those years ago we’d end up together.’

As for the future, Helen concludes: ‘I am looking forward to getting married next year, having a baby together and continue being so happy together.’

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