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Chris Youles

4 years

Apparently the old link to this is no longer working. If you're looking to put writing interventions into your school and help children with their sentence writing here are my training notes based on the book 'The Writing Revolution.'

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Chris Youles

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2 years

My son just shouted to his friend, "See you later bunny." His friend replied, "See you bunny." I asked him why they call each other bunny and he told me it's American for friend. I don't want to tell him as the mistake is too cute.

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4 years

Our 3 year old son chose these shoes today. Our first reaction was to tell him they were girl's shoes and then realised how ridiculous that was. I think he looks great!

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1 year

@clhubes In a coffee shop we were served by a hipster barista who was wearing a large, wide hat. When she handed him his milk, my son said, "Thank you, kind witch."

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1 year

Early in my teaching career, I was directed to use lollipop sticks to target all my questioning. At the end of the year, I remarked to a student that her name hardly ever came out. "I know," she told me. "I took my stick out in the first week and put it in the bin."

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3 years

I once had a parental complaint that I'd taught the children how vast space is and couldn't I tone it down a bit as it was too much. Can you top that?

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2 years

@groovybrewster He meant buddy. 😁

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3 years

I've got an idea for a TV programme: You take internet trolls who claim teachers are lazy and put them in charge of a class for a week and see how they get on. It's called 'A day in their shoes' (but it lasts a week and is basically Wife Swap without the wives)

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3 years

I spent 5 mins trying to talk a child out of the bushes from behind the PE shed to find out that I'd been given the wrong info. and they were in class, happily doing their work. How was your day?

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3 years

@katieharr1988 I got an official warning for humming the theme to Thomas the tank engine whilst at the photocopier.....I had been doing it for around 6 months.

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3 years

Yesterday, I asked my mum why as a kid they sent me to Sunday school at the local church when we aren't religious. Her answer, "Because it was free and you were annoying."

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2 years

Not only am I teaching full lessons right up to the last day, I'm going to turn up at their houses on Christmas day with a mini whiteboard and a long division lesson.

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3 years

Has every Primary school got a member of staff who can play the piano, but tells no one for fear of being made to play at the Christmas production?

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3 years

Report pupil comment time: Me: "I see you've put here, your highlight of the year was being taught by Mr. Stewart." Pupil: "Yes." Me:"Is that the supply teacher who covered for an afternoon in the autumn term?" Pupil: "Yeah, he had a guitar." Me: "Great, just checking..."

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2 years

A boy in my class told me today that I am his 3rd favourite teacher he's had at our school. I teach year 5 and we are a Junior school..

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3 years

My mum wins the worst training day ever award. When she worked for the council they paid for them to spend the day in the forest. On arrival they were presented with clown costumes which they had to wear and spend the day being a clown in order to learn how to lose inhibitions.

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3 years

What's your most frustrating lesson observation experience? Once, my observer turned up 15 mins late and then marked it down for me not talking through the lesson obejectives. I politely pointed I had, but they weren't there and then I was told I should learn to take criticism.

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2 years

We've woken to find out that our NYE plans have been ruined by.........chicken pox. Shout out to the old school canceller of plans. We've gone full retro this year.

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3 years

It's such fun teaching when the gardener is outside your classroom using the thermo-nuclear, jet engine powered grass strimmer.

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6 months

My son's homework was to interview me about my school days. His opening question, "So, what was school like in Victorian times?"

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3 years

30 mins extra added to the school day. CBBC better start making extended Newsround episodes.

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2 years

I'm getting married in June, which means we've got 3 months to convince our son that he can't come to the wedding dressed as Spiderman as he, "needs to protect the rings from robbers."

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@ChrisYoules

3 years

Class Handovers - I can honestly guarantee that any child that walks into my class in September will get a fresh start......as I won't remember a thing anyone told me about them and will have lost my notes.

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3 years

A friend was told on a tour by the headteacher that if they wanted to apply to work at the school they'd be expected to arrive at 7.30am and stay until 6pm. Does no one at this school have children? Other commitments? A life? They wisely decided not to apply.

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1 year

Long ago, I was reading out the spellings for the KS2 SATs paper. One of the words was a pupil's surname. Everyone looked at her when I read it. 31/32 got the answer correct. I noticed she'd not answered it. Later I asked her why and she said she thought it would be cheating. 😢

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2 years

Some days teaching is about winning hearts and minds. Sometimes it's about picking up a dead pigeon from the school field with a litter picker.

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3 years

Suggestion in this article: 1) Extend the school day, perhaps by adding sports clubs after school. Yes what a good idea, we'd never thought of that and the fact that there are already clubs and sports teams being run for free after school by teachers can be ignored.

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3 years

My favourite Olympics question.

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3 years

The problem with doing a healthy shop at the supermarket is once you've unpacked you realise that there's nothing to actually eat.

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3 years

I've just had the mental image that this Matt Hancock's downstairs toilet and he's sitting on it with no trousers and now I can't unsee it.

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3 years

Teaching can be a hard job, but this afternoon we played rounders in the sunshine and it was the best job in the world.

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@ChrisYoules

3 years

@ANewChapterBks @katieharr1988 My resignation letter.

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3 years

It's my son's first day of school tomorrow and he told us that if his teacher speaks to him he's just going to say, "Blah, blah, boring." I think I better find out what wine his teacher drinks.

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@ChrisYoules

3 years

Best Inset day: A large skip and years worth of school accumulated crap thrown away.

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@ChrisYoules

4 years

Three words that you don't want to hear when you walk into school......the servers down.

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Chris Youles

@ChrisYoules

4 years

We've noticed a drop in engagement in home learning since Wednesday and then I saw Fortnite season 3 was released on that day. Hmmm, I wonder what's happened? 🤔

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@ChrisYoules

3 years

Quick fact: in every class you ever teach at least one child will use the character name 'Bob' when writing a story.

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@ChrisYoules

2 years

The workload survey has revealed that our teachers say that they have no work life balance, the marking & assessment is crippling & the constant scrutiny has plunged staff morale to an all time low. We need to do something about this. Staff yoga?

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@ChrisYoules

3 years

Never again am I feeding back to a parent that a child needs to put their hand up more in class. Often the child is sitting there day in day out, listening intently & working hard. They're doing everything I've asked them to do & I'm not going to criticise them for it.

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@ChrisYoules

3 years

Please spare a thought for Chen this SATs week who has been on furlough for the last two years.

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@ChrisYoules

2 years

Residential story: On arriving at the Year 6 residential, I realised that despite having reminded the children a hundred times about the kit lost, I'd forgotten my towel. 😊 The Deputy Head told me she had a spare that I could borrow...(1)

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@ChrisYoules

3 years

I'm so happy to see teachers who are beginning their career getting so many exciting opportunities. But this is a tweet dedicated to those of us that spent the first 8 years as the PE coordinator. Tidying the PE shed, being asked for the shed key &. pumping footballs.

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2 years

Saw a child I taught last year and they pointed and said, "Look there's that guy. Sorry, can't remember your name." Winning hearts and minds.

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2 years

Class handover meetings: Teacher 1) Nice, nice, nice, struggles, lively, nice. Teacher 2) I first encountered this pupil on a sunshine-filled, Autumnal day back in the early days of September.....

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2 years

If Ofsted call, is it acceptable to turn the lights off and hide behind the sofa?

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2 years

After I watch a documentary, I follow my partner around the house for 3 days passing on all the information like I'm a lecturing professor.

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Chris Youles

@ChrisYoules

3 years

A secret part of all school office staff training is the sacred code of protecting all stationery as if their very life depended on it.

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@ChrisYoules

3 years

Every time I see a relatively new teacher's lesson, I am amazed at how brilliant they are. Composed, clear and consistently delivering excellent teaching. I look back at myself and shudder. Was anyone else pretty crap for the first couple of years?

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4 years

@thosethatcan My first parents evening as an NQT and I had all my notes ready. The first parent came in, sat down and said, "Sorry if R. has been a bit of a c**t recently but we've got a poltergeist and it's f***ing with his head." I didn't bother sharing his son's x tables scores with him.

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@ChrisYoules

3 years

Spare a thought for those of us who are old enough to remember the BCG jab and whose main worry about returning to school after our vaccine is that I'm going to spend the day with people thumping me in the arm.

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3 years

I just managed to move my second jab foward and was pleased to find empty slots in every centre for tomorrow evening. Then I realised my mistake....

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@ChrisYoules

2 years

We've got builders working next door and when my kids are in the garden there is a lot of fruity language. I've spoken to the builders and they said not to worry as they've heard it all before.

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2 years

My daughter was taken by ambulance to A & E yesterday after knocking herself unconscious and her brother has been moaning all morning that it's not fair as the nurse gave her a custard cream and he's never been in an ambulance.

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@ChrisYoules

3 years

If you're still early in your teaching career and thinking of quitting, please consider trying a new school first. It's so sad to read about some of your experiences and I want you to know that there are some brilliant schools out there.

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2 years

Just delivered a staff meeting on cognitive load. Luckily, we did it in the garden with wine and cheese so by the end no one gave a crap what I was talking about.

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4 years

Thanks Megan. Thanks a lot for cheating on your boyfriend, who then decided to call you at 1am and shout outside our window, repeatedly that he loves you and why could you do this to him. I'm now exhausted and it's all your fault (and his probably) so once again, thanks Megan.

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2 years

We've just been to the beach and my daughter moaned for 3 hours straight to come home. In the car now and she just said, "I had a really nice time at the beach." This is parenting in a nutshell.

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2 years

Doesn't everyone double the suggested garlic when cooking?

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@ChrisYoules

3 years

Best quote from our camping trip came when we'd just finished putting the tent up and our son asked, "Why have you built an uncomfortable house?"

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@ChrisYoules

3 years

Let's not go on holiday this year. Let's save some money. Let's just stay at home and spend THOUSANDS OF POUNDS on crap instead.

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2 years

The best thing about having a haircut is the next day when every child in the school is duty bound to tell you you've had one.

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3 years

Well my son just burst into the bedroom and announced he needed a poo whilst I was talking to a parent. I think I handled it professionally....

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2 years

First job today is to tell some of the year 6s what their middle names are.

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4 years

And the final score is in: Peace love and understanding: 17,700 Mean spirited misogyny: 8

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4 months

In the car today, we had 3 kids and only 2 toys to hold. After a lot of tears and arguing, I asked if the child who had nothing wanted to hold my imaginary magic tennis ball. I threw it & they instantly cheered up. The rest of the journey was them arguing over the ball.

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3 years

I'm really looking forward to my camping trip.

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4 years

If you were a 19 month old where would you have hidden the remote control? As I haven't got a clue what she's done with it.

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5 months

I knew it was going to be a 'long' flight when the first thing my 4-year-old daughter got out of her self-packed bag were her maracas.

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4 years

I don't normally ask for followers on here, but I've just noticed that I'm only 994,527 away from a million! And it's kind of bugging me.

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@ChrisYoules

3 years

Just heard my name came up at the INSET day at my old school. Ah that's nice, was it about my English lead work? No, they said a boy walked off the playground with a head wound and you shouted, "Somebody help this child." Then you went white as a sheet & lay on the floor.

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2 years

I'm over the moon with my end of year gifts from my class. 😁

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@ChrisYoules

4 years

If anyone's nervous about their first day as a teacher, here's a recount of mine (thread): I nervously walked my class in from the playground, sat them on the carpet and tripped on a chair leg, falling arse over tit, landing on top of two girls sitting on the carpet. (1)

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3 years

We've just booked 3 nights camping with our 2 and 4 year old. We've never camped before. On a scale of 1-10 how much alcohol do we need to take with us to cope?

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3 years

I just jumped to celebrate the goal, forgot I'd undone my button as I'd eaten too many minstrels and my shorts fell down. And this is why I'm not watching it in the pub.

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3 years

So the show your class a Christmas film debate has been put to bed as we now know that one film=20,000 hours lost learning.

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Chris Youles

@ChrisYoules

3 years

We had a celebrity children's author visit my old school. He parked in the disable space, refused to move his car, was incredibly rude to the office and was an all round prat. Then we had former Children's Laureate Chris Ridell who couldn't have been nicer. Just saying.....

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@ChrisYoules

4 years

Do they do a 5k to couch? Where you used to run but now just lie around on the sofa being a lazy bastard.

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@ChrisYoules

3 years

Thought the kids were being suspiciously quiet. Now I get to play the game of games; putting all the boardgames back together.

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@ChrisYoules

2 years

@FakeHeadteacher It once took me months to realise that a child in my class had snuck their lolly stick out and binned it.

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3 years

Back to school today for me and I'm over the moon that my daughter decided to gift us the worst night's sleep since she was a newborn.

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3 years

If you've never cooked a Christmas dinner for lots of people before, the best way to do it is drunk.

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3 years

It's the day we wash the kid's hair or as the neighbours probably call it, 'Oh good God, do you think we should call the police?' day.

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@ChrisYoules

4 years

15 years I stayed at that school and left as a member of the SLT, so if your first day doesn't quite go how you imagined, don't worry, things will get better Good luck! (8)

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2 years

My daughter has told me a 100 times about the Father's Day present she made me. The super special present she forgot at her nursery. The suspense has been building and today it finally came home.....(1)

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4 years

I'm happy to report that our Covid tests came back today negative....26 days after we did a two hour round trip to get tested. Moonshot? More like Moonshit.

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@ChrisYoules

3 years

I'd like to give a special mention to the kid who creates thirty Google Classroom alerts by commenting 'hi!' on everything possible.

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4 years

Our toddler today, on being served by a female hipster barista who was wearing a large oversized trilby hat, turned and said, "Thank you kind witch." Couldn't love him more.

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4 years

I know someone who went to the police to report a kebab shop ripping her off by charging £130 for her chips on her card. Eventually she was shown the CCTV footage of her drunkenly offering to pay for everyone's food after a night out. 😳

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Chris Youles

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1 year

📢Competition time!📢 To celebrate my book's release, I will give away a copy. Like and retweet to enter. I will draw the winner on the 10th of June. Sentence models for creative writing: A practical resource for teaching writing #Amazon via @Amazon

Sentence models for creative writing: A practical resource for teaching writing

www.amazon.co.uk

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3 years

For all the teachers that like to read around their subject and develop their thinking. There are also a large group who come in everyday to do their job, give a damn about the kids, but are happy to just got on with whatever the school asks them to do and that's ok too.

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2 years

Moral of the story is to pack a towel and check the kit list. (6)

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2 years

Parent: I need to talk to you about your choice of class book, 'Skelig'. I'm disgusted that you'd choose a book with the word 'b*llocks' in it. Me: I hear your concern and this is good timing as I was going to call. Your son called another child a "mother f***er" at lunchtime.

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@ChrisYoules

3 years

I once got outstanding in a lesson observation. Where do I pick up my £10,000?

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3 years

Who remembers teaching chunking in maths?

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4 years

Told a colleague in his 40s that I am going to see David Baddiel tonight, "Ah brilliant, I loved 'Newman and Baddiel". Told a colleague in her early 20s the same thing. "Ah brilliant, 'The Parent Agency' guy." Times have changed... @Baddiel

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4 years

Boris must have some good advice for socially distancing from children, as he's done a pretty good job with his own.

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2 years

Remembering the time a child in class told me he couldn't do the work as he was about to have a heart attack. Then I had to watch as he did a pretty convincing impression, slowly sinking off his chair and clutching his chest under the desk.

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3 years

Teacher: We are going to put an INA with your child, which is 1:1 support. Someone to sit with them in lessons to help with their learning. (Parent pauses in thought.) Parent: I think I've just realised why that lady sat next to me every day at school.

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3 years

Some thoughts on 'wow' words- Not once when reading has a word made me stop and say wow. Words are not hierarchal. Misused words in a sentence often ruin the flow or distort the meaning. There is only one wow word in the English language and it's the word wow.

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