Michael Church recalls his friend, the esteemed John Peter
John Peter defected to the West, aged 18, in 1956, later becoming chief theatre critic of The Sunday Times
AS a student I sometimes used to mug up for my weekly essay in the Bodleian Library in Oxford. And every time I went, I noticed another student always there. He would be sitting as still as a statue, gaze fixed firmly on his book; nothing ever disturbed his concentration, which he kept up hour after hour, week after week.
Five years later I ran into him at a party in London: John Peter, a live-wire Hungarian who had defected to the West in 1956. I had become a vociferously radical schoolteacher, and he suggested that I might enjoy working at
Kingsdown School shortlisted as one of best in UK by The Times awards
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Popular school newspaper achieves national success for third year running
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Schools ‘bleeding out’ from Covid bubble system, council leaders warn
Ministers urged to scrap policy, warning prolonged home isolation could put vulnerable children at risk of harm
Schools are “bleeding out” from the bubble system, council leaders have said as they warn the policy could be leaving the most vulnerable children at risk of serious harm.
Ministers have been urged to stop dithering and bring an end to the bubble system, whereby the whole class, or even year groups, of pupils are sent home for 10 days each time a child tests positive.
The policy is now coming under attack from local council chiefs and headteachers, as well as politicians and the Children’s Commissioner.
Schools out for the footie
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