Roll Call

‘THE Express watches Zoe Gosling get ready for school. She’s packing her bag with all the things she needs: pen, pencil, rubber (ribbed and Tizer-flavour), lighter, toilet roll…

Zoe models her new school uniform

Yes, that’s right. Pupils at Ghyllgrove Infants School, Essex, are being asked to being in their own loo roll.

‘We have to deal with what we have to deal with,’ says the school’s head, Miss Brown. ‘No-one is going to come down here to give us extra money.’

She should take care if the rolls are ever used as makeshift exercise books – a black mark could just mean little Zoe has an iron-rich diet…

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Posted: 15th, July 2003 | In: Tabloids Comment | TrackBack | Permalink