Harry Styles' Primary School Teacher Thankful For Amazing Tribute At Manchester Show

The impact teachers have on the lives of their students isn't a small one. Although they might teach countless children throughout their careers, they still manage to impact everyone distinctly and uniquely. 

This was the case with Harry Styles, who stopped his show at the Emirates Old Trafford stadium in Manchester to find his first primary school teacher, who he thought was in attendance. It was, however, no easy task, as there were over 26,000 people at the show.

Read on for more details about the concert and Styles' teachers sweet response.

On Thursday, the "Watermelon Sugar" crooner paused his homecoming concert to pay tribute to his primary school teacher.

"I'm going to ask a favor from you because I'm trying to find someone in the audience," the "As It Was" singer asked his audience at Wednesday's concert. 

He added, "So, we're going to get really quiet and I'm going to see if I can locate this person if you don't mind helping me. Ok? Because, my first ever school teacher is here tonight. Her name's Mrs. Vernon, and I believe she is in the crowd."

"Mrs. Vernon is here," he added. "Are you here?" 

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Footage of this incident, which was shared by CBS and TikTok user GoodiesByJennie, showed Styles walking to the end of the stage and dropping to his knees in gratitude after he thought he had found her.

"How are you? I heard you're retiring. I'd just like to thank you for everything in those formative years and, yeah, thank you so much," he said. "It means a lot to me that you're here tonight."

"Can you imagine dealing with me when I was 4?" he added before dedicating his "Canyon Moon" song to his teacher.

Unfortunately, the person who Styles thought was Ms. Vernon wasn't her. It was her fellow school teacher, Ms. Bailey, who was also shown on the big screen.

Even though she wasn't at the concert, Styles' heartfelt tribute got through to her as Ms. Bailey had called and shared with her a video clip of the exchange.

She told BBC Radio that she was "very emotional" over the tribute, calling it a very "touching and lovely" thing to do.

"I do say thank you to him for doing that and for saying those things, it meant a lot."

She also opened up about how it was like teaching the young singer.

"Harry was a lovely little boy. He was very sweet. He had a little bit of a cheeky side to him, he could be a little bit of a monkey sometimes," she began. "Very sociable and had lots of friends. He loved music, he loved dressing up and all those creative things in the classroom. He was just lovely."

She continued, "As a teacher, you remember all of the children that you've taught, all of them are amazing in their own way. Harry obviously has gone on to mega, mega things—everybody at Hermitage is just so, so proud of him." She reminisced on his delightful nature and how he had "a cheeky sparkle in his eye, he was a little bit of a tinker some of the time but he was a character so that's for sure, we all remember him."

Following the end of his show, the Grammy winner expressed gratitude to his audience for gracing his concert.

"This is an absolute pleasure to be here at my home show; I cannot begin to tell you how much it means to me to play here tonight and all of you for coming," he began.

"Some of the happiest times of my entire life have been making these last couple of albums, and some of the happiest times of my life have been right around the corner from here. So it feels pretty perfect to me playing these songs to you here tonight," he concluded.

His latest album, "Harry's House," has been a worldwide success. Since its release a month ago, the album has topped charts and broken numerous musical records.

He also attained the milestone of simultaneously holding both the number one track, "As It Was," and the number one album, "Harry's House."

Per a review from the NME, "Harry's House" feels like a "magical thing – a record that you want to take up residence in until you know its every nook and cranny in minute detail."

In his interview with Zane Lowe of Apple Music, he explained that his title was a nod to the Japanese pop icon Haruomi Hosono.

"Harry's House was named after Haruomi Hosono, who had an album in the '70s called 'Hosono House.'"