Panic at Pinnacle Primary

Shades of Gradgrind and Dickens here with the 'progressive' Pinnacle Primary being closed down, and the 'traditional' Grindem County Primary taking on new children they don't really like the look of. The first nasty surprise comes after the reading test - inconveniently the Pinnacle Primary children come top! More surprises and intrigue follow in rapid succession, and fiddling the reading test results is nothing compared to what the children are prepared to do to regain their old school. I loved it. A read-aloud that appeals to us teachers, with plenty of in-jokes, is long overdue. Oh yes, the children loved it, too!