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Secondary school

Age: 11

Anna made Jack stand in front of the door in his new school uniform so she could take a picture of him. When she put away her phone in her handbag, "Why do I have to go? Why can't it be like the olden days where you would just work and not have to go to school?" moaned Jack "Because it's the law" answered Anna "It's not fair" mumbled Jack as he got into the shiny, blue, small mini.

When they reached the school Jack slithered out of the mini with his new black GOLF bag and walked into school. He hung around the other year sevens in the student office, he looked at his slip of paper that read 7A-DH he didn't know what that meant but it had to be important if it was posted to him by the school. "Okay, all year sevens go to the teacher holding up your numbers and letters and line up in straight lines" called the head teacher. Jack went over to a man holding up a sign that read 7A-DH, the man had blonde hair that came to a point at his forehead, and he also had grey eyes, he also had stubble on his chin. He wore a black t-shirt with gold rimmed seams and gold writing that read TLA school PE department on it. Jack stood behind a boy with ginger hair and glasses with his head bowed looking at his feet.

They were led into a hall with chairs, a stage with speakers and a projector. They were seated at the back with all the other year sevens in front of them, the head teacher walked in front of the stage and placed her laptop on the stage. She clicked a button and a welcome sign appeared on the white curtains of the stage. "Welcome to TLA year sevens! We hope that you enjoy your selves here but first we need to tell you all of the school rules" she said in a friendly tone, oh goody thought Jack "There will be no swearing, no bunking, no disobeying the teachers, no disobeying the rules, no graffiti, no vandalism, no walking out of class..." She carried on talking for 10 minutes but Jack didn't hear any of it as he drifted into a daydream.

Jack's tutor group was led to F1 in the humanities block next to the English block. They were given their time tables and their seats, Jack sat next to a girl with bleach blonde hair and sea blue eyes.

The school bell went and Jack looked at his time table "Okay maths D8" he said to himself as he walked out of the classroom. He made it to D block and found D8. His maths teacher Mr Williams put him next to a boy named Ian with long curly blonde hair. He was given an orange exercise book, which he wrote his name, his tutor and Mr Williams name on. He was given some algebra to do for the lesson, but Jack enjoyed the lesson as the teacher made jokes along with the class.

Jack walked to his next lesson and was sat next to a girl named Hannah and was given a magazine cover to annotate. At the end of the lesson the English teacher stopped Jack to ask him about his friends and when Jack replied that he had none he tried to reassure him "You know it's said that if you make a friend on your first day then you're doing ok" he said "Well if my English teacher is the only friend I make today then that would be kind of sad" said Jack before walking out.

Jack sat on the stone bench and played on his phone at break with nothing other to do at that point.

He walked to technology to be seated on the table concealed from the teachers view with a couple of girls and a few boys on it with him. He was given a booklet and was told to complete the first page which he did in no time.

When the home bell went Jack rushed out to his bus which only had one floor. He paid the bus driver 50p for a single to his road, every seat was filled as well as the holding on poles so he climbed into the baggage area and texted Anna. The bus started up and roared down the road towards his house.

He rang the bell and hopped down from the baggage area to get off the bus. He jumped off the bus and practically jogged to his home. He opened the front door and went to his room to play with his friends as usual.