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‘You’re a very ier wouldn’t be a er without a very important tree next to it!’ She looked at her watch and mentally tried to calculate howrole on stage—a role which involved nothingShe had only been at this particular school for a term, but she had already sussed the difficult ones, and had cleverly steered them away from any roles that involved speech

‘I want my mummy She’ll tell you that I can be whatever I want to be! And I want to be a donkey’

‘Lucy’s the donkey, darling’

‘I want to be a donkey!’

Tree; donkey; donkey; tree Right now, Megan was heartily wishing that she had listened to her friend Charlotte, when she had decided to leave St Margaret’s and opted for another private school Somewhere a little more normal She could deal with nor with them at St Nick’s in Scotland, after she had qualified as a teacher None of them had ever threatened her with prison

‘Okay How about if we fetch your mummy and she can tell you how important it is for you to play your part? Re other people down!’

‘Donkey,’ was his response to her bracing statehed and looked across to where the head of the junior depart her head sympathetically

‘Happened last year,’ she confided, as Megan stood up ‘He’s not one of our easier pupils, and fetching histo be tricky I’ve had a look outside and there’s no sign of her’ Jessica Ahed

‘What about the father?’

‘Divorced’

‘Poor kid,’ Megan said syrinned