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While we were sitting in our
desks learning about people in other parts of the world, e.g.
France, or Spain, or Italy, what were their children doing at
that time? Probably doing much the same as we were doing at the
time. In many cases learning what English children were doing,
what they would be wearing, what they would be learning, what
they would be doing at all stages of the day. We often had
visitors from other countries who would come and talk to the
children, or just come and visit the school. In this way places
became not just places on the map or in the book, they became
real. Even the food was bought into the picture in our
exhibitions for we had a table down the middle of the hall
loaded with goodies made by our very co-operative parents from
recipes brought from other countries. Needless to say that was
one of the most popular items of the day! One of the most
successful and interesting exhibitions took place just before
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country. We had been teaching the use of
decimal coinage for some time, not only for our own use in this
country for the changeover but also in connection with our
leavers outings – more of that later. But for this occasion
all the children were briefed and every child in the junior
school had a part to play. We made cheques which were all for
the same amount of money, parents were asked to save empty boxes
and packages of their everyday buying. These were stored and on
the great day were laid out on stalls in the playground (it
happened to be a fine warm day, thank goodness). Our cardboard
money that we used in our school lessons was counted out into
small bags and put on the Bank Stall, where two or three of the
older children acted as Bank Clerks and instructed parents how
to fill in cheques properly before receiving the amount of money
they were to spend on the stalls. The younger children, the very
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