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Saturday, November 08, 2014

I think this is how Banksy started...


Give it twenty years and she'll be having her artwork scrubbed out by Clacton council.

Sadly, I won't be able to make the exhibition, as I'm due to meet the Chief Exec in London at 4pm. So I'll be busy making an exhibition of myself. But the good news is that whilst a picture may paint a thousand words, Amelie's developing the ability to do both. At the beginning of term, her handwriting looked like this...


We were quite pleased with that. She wasn't quite six yet, and although she was only required to write the letter 'C', she'd actually come up with a sentence. And a hackneyed old cliché.

But two months is a long time in the world of child development. When we had our first Year 1 parents' evening a few weeks ago, the teachers said they were pushing Amelie to achieve her maximum potential, and frankly they weren't making it up. In eight weeks, she's gone from one simple sentence to this...


Her handwriting's more legible than mine, and she's drawn an arrow to direct the reader towards page 2, where she expands her themes even further...


I think she's talking about a fruit tea ring there. The maid must be Lisa, and the mouse is clearly me. As for Toby, he was mentioned on the previous page.

2 comments:

Phil's Mum said...

We always knew she was brilliant.

Poirot said...

Oh wow- hope you can fund uni fees with this new job...it may well be sooner than you think! Well done Amelie x