Remove can also be a class between the fourth and fifth forms, a sixth form class for those retaking O-levels/ School cert or the last class of the junior dept before you remove to the senior dept! I once knew a girl who set herself the target of being able to wear a different tie on each day of the week before she left school. She started off with a house tie, and had already earned a tie for winter sports colours (in her case hockey) and for non-sporting colours (in her case, the school play, but it could have been music). All she needed to do was get one for summer sports and then become a house prefect and then a school prefect. In the event, she was appointed school prefect without an intervening stage, but the school had stopped Saturday lessons by then, so she just made it! A very "young Nicola" type ambition. I wonder to what degree AF planned for Nicola to be the viewpoint character in so many of the books? Once we have seen the others through her eyes, it is more difficult to be quite so sympathetic with them.
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Date: 2014-05-29 02:19 pm (UTC)I once knew a girl who set herself the target of being able to wear a different tie on each day of the week before she left school. She started off with a house tie, and had already earned a tie for winter sports colours (in her case hockey) and for non-sporting colours (in her case, the school play, but it could have been music). All she needed to do was get one for summer sports and then become a house prefect and then a school prefect. In the event, she was appointed school prefect without an intervening stage, but the school had stopped Saturday lessons by then, so she just made it!
A very "young Nicola" type ambition.
I wonder to what degree AF planned for Nicola to be the viewpoint character in so many of the books? Once we have seen the others through her eyes, it is more difficult to be quite so sympathetic with them.