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I don't think I remember my first day at school but I do have memories from the first year (actually called the pre-first year). I remember tracing round letters in the learning-to-write lessons; when writing something, leaving a gap between the vertical and horizontal of a capital T to see what would happen, and having Mrs Heywood display it to the whole class saying never to do that (without saying who did it, which I thought was nice of her); A4-on-its-side exercise books with blue covers; the way a long line of writing slipped down the page rather than being a straight horizontal line; a nasty boy called Lee; a girl crying because she had to wear boy's socks (I don't however remember why she needed a change of socks); a brightly lit classroom; being told off on a next day for leaving before Mrs Heywood had spotted my Mum outside and saying I could go, and not remembering this at all; taking home letters from school; not "getting" the standard way of sitting cross-legged; deciding to staying silent during prayers; getting bored when writing and doing very light scribbles on the same page (I don't remember being told off for this but I'm sure it happened).