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This weeks blog is a real celebration of owning your own quirks! \ud83d\ude0b<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday was a real highlight of my entire week. I had spent most of the week looking after my ill children \ud83e\udd22 and creating both content and craft to use for fundraising. It was yesterday that all of the hard work paid off for us as a team. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a 13 hour work day (mostly standing) and let me tell you that I am paying for it today. \ud83e\udddf\u200d\u2640\ufe0f However, it was so worth it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My day began at the lovely William Gilpin school, where I volunteer support to a few children with SEN. We were having a WWII experience day and I decided to throw myself into the spirit. I knew that some of the kids may not have been super comfortable dressing up, so seeing an adult looking a bit silly has to help ease their tension… it certainly worked! \ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We all realised early on in class (pretending it was 1939) that there was no room in those days for individuality. Everyone wore something similar to the next person. The girls had to be in skirts, the boys in shorts or trousers. Women were most likely going to be homemakers and the men went to war. Children’s learning was regimented and never individualised, regardless of need and my little students picked up on it. \ud83d\ude0d It lead to some really lovely discussions about how grateful we are to live in our time, even though its still far from perfect. How I can come to work with brightly coloured hair and NEVER wear a skirt \ud83e\udd23 and how my way of learning is not the same as my mates, but it’s still learning. Great, great day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next I moved onto another school, this time in Christchurch. The Priory School’s annual Christmas Fair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n