Harry Pears

One year and a day from returning home from an amazing school trip from Japan, I realise how lucky I am. My generation is the first to have done school trips halfway across the world. I got to stay in a Japanese familys house for three nights, and experience a culture that not many people [...]

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For the fifth day in six days, my school is shut. It was great to start with, but I like Tuesdays! Last Monday there was snow, so, like most other schools in the county, ours was closed. Then at lunch time on Tuesday we were sent home because there had been a powercut at school [...]

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The “heavy” snow did arrive, it just wasn’t heavy in Suffolk. Still, there was enough of the white stuff to get me off school for the day So, there was apparently about 8″ of snow in London, meaning that no buses whatsoever could run. Surely they have snow-ploughs and gritters in London? I know that [...]

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