one whole and perfect day by judith clarke

They stumbled at last into a small paved courtyard. The playgrounds, noisy and crowded only a few minutes back, were now silent and deserted everyone had vanished, swallowed down into the school. At any moment the second bell would go, and there was no-one to ask for directions. They’d been running since the first bell at lunchtime, like puzzled rats caught in a maze. Wentworth High was huge: a crazy jumble of unfamiliar buildings, courtyards and playgrounds, steep steps up and down the hillsides, echoing covered ways. The photocopied map they’d been given that morning at assembly seemed too crowded and difficult to understand. They felt like crying they couldn’t even find the room for their next lesson, which was English with Ms Dallimore. Last year, just six weeks ago in December, Kate and Neema had been the big girls of Short Street Primary – now, on their first day at Wentworth High, they were little again, right at the bottom of the school. Which was what Kate had meant, of course.

She was too hot, and her mouth was dry from the kind of panic she’d last felt on her first day at primary school, when through the window of the infants’ room she’d watched her mum walk down the path, through the gate and out into the street, leaving her behind.

‘Know what? We’re little again!’ gasped Kate. Teachers’ notes available from For Erica and Susan Printed in Australia by McPherson’s Printing Groupĭoctor Ignatius Grace’s biblical compliments to his wife and daughter come from ‘Song of Solomon’, King James Version of the Bible.

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One whole and perfect day by judith clarke