From Prole1’s School Workbook:
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The game’s I play are LEGO, car’s, cuddley toys, chess, hockey and draughts
My cats names are LOLa and pavement
LoLa is a taddy cat
pavement is a tomcat
I like lerning about the cornish langwidge and the historey of cornwall and mineing
I dislike not nowing cornish historey and being scared.
School Poem
The LOUD siren sounded suddenly
and the children ran out to play.
The busy teacher marked quickly
At Assembly time.
A quik child plays grandly
in the playground
A smoove tadle stands quietly
in the class room
A beautiful display stood proudly
on th wall.
A White board Lies still
on the table.
Prole1: Do you like it?
Me: Very much, I like the free expression.
Prole1: I had to plan it all.
Me: Really?
Prole1: Yes. Can’t you tell?
Me: Now you have said it it is obvious, shall we read the rest of the book?
Prole1: Any questions before we move on?
Of course I had a question.
In fact I had many questions.
Not least of these was about his teachers’ attitude to his overt criticism of the Cornish Primary School curriculum.
I had also noticed that in the “My Friends are” section of the page he had written five names, four of them were his teachers and one was a boy who I happened to know had left the school a couple of months ago.
Hockey? Really? In what universe?
Keep it simple, keep it light.
Me: Ummm, well now you ask, what’s a tadle?
Prole1: A tadle? Where?
Me: There is a smoove quiet one in your poem.
Prole1: You are very funny Dad but we have a lot to get through. It’s a TABLE.
Me: Sorry, it’s great, really great.
Prole1 (turning the page) Thank you very much. Less jokes and more looking.
Me: Of course….
No wonder all his friends are teachers.
I find that whiteboards often lie at school. Love this Jack.
I agree.
One can only imagine the whiteboard has been lying all these years.
I have to admit though, my mind got stuck in a loop trying to imagine a child playing grandly.
My sister and I had a list of ‘reasons why [a particular kid] is pompous’. Number one was ‘taking his jumper of majestically’. I think we were about the same age as Prole1
I think he’s a throwback..my Gr.grandfather from Accrington would have said…”Eee..thoose childer play grand.”