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Okay, so have you ever done a role like this

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before where you've been involved in setting a school up from scratch?

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No,

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I've been in very well established schools that have been around

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for quite a while,

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so it was quite an exciting project to do.

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It feels like a dream job,

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like your vision,

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your ideas.

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Yeah, and when I interviewed for it,

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I chatted with those involved in chatting with Ruth.

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and there were many reasons to come but the opportunity to be part

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of something from day one i felt was unique because certainly if i go

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home it's highly unlikely to happen it happens a

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little bit but still quite unique um so that was a big big thing

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for me to be able to be a part of that and all the learning that will come with that

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as well yeah um like i've already learned so much that i really i didn't know that

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i didn't know yeah um if you know what i mean just for my clarification ah

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you're going

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into head of primary years and and

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how do you envision like what's your vision for primary years so

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curriculum wise

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IB at the heart,

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inquiry,

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building on what's already happened in the early years,

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that player -based learning,

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taking it into very inquiry learning,

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students taking ownership over their own area,

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but also don't want to lose the rigour,

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which is why we bought in that UK national benchmark,

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which I personally think gives parents some reassurance if

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those that are unsure about IB,

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they're a little bit unsure,

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but you talk to them about what the IB offers,

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you then suggest to them our curriculum design only provides these benchmarks

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to this,

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And Dubai's a very transient place.

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What if I go home and I go to another one?

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So providing that sort of gives them a really rich diet

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of education.

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They get the rigour,

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they're developing the skills,

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the skills that they'll go on to use for many,

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many years beyond school.

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So yeah,

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I think the curriculum will be a fantastic curriculum to follow.

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The school in general,

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the facilities,

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the access and opportunity it will provide.

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I think it's incredible.

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And that's what I see for primary children is access and opportunity.

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Some of them,

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let's take sport,

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for example, they don't yet know what they're like.

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So through our sport programme,

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we'll develop skills.

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We'll introduce them to as many new sports as possible,

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get access,

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and then provide opportunities to follow what it is that they like to do.

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I know from my going to scores very much,

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you go with football,

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you go with this.

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And what your friends want to do.

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But if we can provide as many...

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opportunities as possible we can let them find their own path and

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one of the things we're also doing is CCAs or ASAs whatever you'd like to call them before

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and after school so trying to fit with that family life as well and being conscious

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that sometimes children don't have the opportunity to go to the ASAs after school so

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let's provide them before as well and just try and open up the breadth of experience

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and opportunities for them and that's the biggest hope for the Barron is both

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of those everything coming together and providing a really rich

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experience for the children.

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What will be the moment when you sit back and

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go, yeah,

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I've done my job and I've done it well?

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I don't know if that moment comes,

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because you could say when the school opens will be a significant

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point, because we're here at the moment,

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we'll see the model,

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we go to the site,

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so it'll be a really significant day when we're moving,

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and then again when it opens.

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I think there'll just be a number of significant times,

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because the school's going to grow year and year and year.

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It'll intentionally start quite small.

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So at the end of the first year will be okay,

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first year done.

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But then the next year will be a new challenge because it will be a much larger sport.

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And then again,

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and I just think there'll be new challenges,

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new benchmarks,

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new points to reach.

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So I don't think there'll ever be one where you can sit back and go,

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okay, job done,

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finished.

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That will never happen.

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There'll always be something,

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but along the way there'll be moments to sort of sit back,

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reflect and go, okay,

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that's one sort of...

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point of the journey.

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Now let's move on to the campus.

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And at the minute,

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because it's such a strange time for you to be in,

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I guess, traditionally in teaching you would wrap up in one school,

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then you'd go to the other and you'd jump in.

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What's the day in the life look like for you at the moment?

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So it's interesting when you say that because I've been at my school previously

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for quite a while.

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that was a difficult decision for me because traditionally right i'd

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never reviewed school mid -year and i almost felt like i was letting the school i

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was leaving down but it was huge opportunities yeah

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but um day to day now is lots of curriculum planning

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for example lots of communicating with our teachers quite a lot um

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so no two days are the same but in general we have lots of contact with our teachers

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that come in and we have a few

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as well given current situation me

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lots of parents doing lots of events trying to get out there trying to

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get some

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some interest in our school and get our name out there.

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I think when we first started a few months ago,

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we were kind of like,

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do people know who we are?

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Do they know what we are looking to do?

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And I don't think they knew the first part.

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We weren't sure who we were.

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So we really looked at events and getting ourselves out there

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and meeting new communities and really looking at where our outreach

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is.

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So of course we're in Maccourt.

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What are the other local areas?

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Where do we need to?

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sort of reach out to.

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I personally spend a lot of time in the local nurseries as well,

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building relationships with their staff and looking to build relationships

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with their naval colourful parents.

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So yeah,

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no two days are the same.

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Every day is very busy.

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Some days are academic.

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We've been to Manpool Library.

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made some nice connections there and obviously we'll be using that generally as a school just

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again to push in a lot of reading and really you know making a visit to a library

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a special time beyond our school library you know you talk a lot about reading

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and it's really amazing it's music to my ears because I love reading I'm really embedding that

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within my son and why do you think that's so important I think

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it is the key to all learning and I think that you can't be sort of

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also I suppose in line with our sort of approach to tech as well

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You can't beat a real book,

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real illustrations,

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real colour,

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real graphics.

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And,

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you know, especially those texts where,

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you know,

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you have your childhood favourites.

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I think there's a reason we've all got memories of our childhood favourite books.

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It's because they are so special,

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because that early exposure is that rich vocabulary,

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that diverse language.

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It stays,

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those repeated refrains,

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they stay because they're so special.

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And also it's that connection to that special time,

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probably with your parent,

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just before you go to sleep.

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That special five minutes after a hectic day,

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that is that magic in the day and that's what we will have at school every day and we'll also be

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encouraging that.

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You can't beat that,

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you really can't.

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It's also come to a point where children view reading as

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tablet based.

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it's our job to sort of bring books back and bring that enthusiasm because it won't just

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be there they don't already have that for some children they don't have for some they do but

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for not all so it's our job to sort of start to bring that back to them as well yeah absolutely

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teacher passions around reading books that we cover through the curriculum

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like the introduction of books in early years the novel study in primary

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that's going to be really important we have to really pick those but very carefully to try

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and instill not just the sort of what they'll bring to us in skill level and content

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but enjoyable because those are the moments where they're going i like

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reading yeah or

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I don't like reading.

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And that's what we need.

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And why and how it can reach it.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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And I think what's really key as well is we'll be encouraging our parents to be reading role models

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at home as well.

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You know,

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not just share a book with your child,

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but also, what are you reading at the moment?

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What are you into at the moment?

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And likewise, you know,

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there's transition points in the day where the children see other staff,

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maybe in the lobby,

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maybe in the parent cafe,

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and they're reading,

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oh. So it all just pushes in on the value of it and that it is

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reading for pleasure as well.

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And they're different.

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to read.

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Yeah, 100 % and the different types of reading in cultures

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because my favourite childhood story might be completely,

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will definitely be completely different to an Emiratis childhood story and an Indian

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child. It's about celebrating that absolutely and giving that exposure

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so that the other students who aren't familiar with those texts.

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can enjoy them yeah and can understand why why is that your favorite then you know

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it's a really lovely discussion point as well yeah so on that because i'm going to write

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a piece on it for world literacy day i don't know what the piece will be but what

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is your we mentioned a few earlier but number one favorite

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childhood book

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I didn't read it but I just watched the film with my son at Easter.

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I just adore Peter Rabbit and Jemima Puddle Dog.

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And also I think for me...

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That's probably such an anchor in my child memory because my

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mum would always read it to me.

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So it's that special emotional connection to the text as well.

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And I think that's a lot for the little ones,

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you know, like you've got two,

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haven't you?

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And I bet you their memories will be,

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yes, it's the text,

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but it's also those special times that happened when you were exposed

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to it.

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So important,

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because I get to bedtime and I'm like,

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do you want a book?

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I want him to read,

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but I also want him to say no.

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But every day...

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I want sleep.

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I want some to sleep myself.

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But every day he wants a book,

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which is really good.

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We're going through the Mr.

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Men at the minute in order.

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So every day is like,

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which Mr.

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Men is it today?

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Oh, bless him.

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That's lovely.

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As annoying as it can be when you've had a long day.

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They're quiet to look.

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I am,

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I am, I am.

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Sadly,

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sadly,

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we all grow up to be adults and it will be that.

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And I don't want it to.

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They're reading their own independent texts.

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You know, they've got their own passions.

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It's Everywhere Bear.

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So I'd say we read that three times a week.

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I've not heard of this one.

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Everywhere Bear.

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I think I've encouraged this because I think I tell the story quite

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well. I'm just going to bring myself up for a minute there.

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Bring it to life.

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Better than others.

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And I think that's actually impacted the book.

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Yeah.

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So true.

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My enthusiasm for that particular book.

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Yeah.

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And it's quite,

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it tells the story of a bear that's a fast bear and gets lost.

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But there's a lot of rhythm to it.

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So it's enjoyable to listen to.

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You should be anticipating what you're going to say.

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Because you're remembering the rhyme to it.

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So I'd say we read that three times a week.

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What was your childhood favourite book?

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So the one that comes to memory the most is The Twits.

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I remember doing it in school.

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And it being a class reader.

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And the parents coming in and reading sections.

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I remember being just really loving it as well.

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I remember Stig of the Dump from Prime Minister.

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I loved

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Stig of the Dump.

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I loved all the Roald Dahl.

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Magic Finger sticks out in my mind.

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Hungry Caterpillar,

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which I've seen that you've got,

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is my childhood.

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Classic.

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Going on a bear hunt,

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another classic.

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Dear Zoo, I love Dear Zoo.

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Dear Zoo for like ECC.

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I love Dear Zoo.

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Let me get it.

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Do a reading.

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