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Halloween Party Neither Frightening Nor Fun

‘One woman came in a nurse’s costume, but she was actually a nurse.’

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Posted: Nov 1st, 2009
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Teachers split on whether child’s poor Halloween fancy dress due to poverty or just laziness

everyone ran away in fear, then thought 'hang on a minute...'Staff at St Mary’s infant school in Stoke Newington were left divided at the school’s Halloween party as to whether the pathetic attempt at Halloween fancy dress from 6-year-old Jamie Whittam was due to his parents obviously not caring enough about him and his status in the school, or whether they are actually just poor.

‘When Jamie arrived at school, I assumed the large cardboard box that had once contained a washing machine was being used to carry an elaborate costume’, explained Winnie Forbes, Jamie’s teacher, ‘but he then pointed to the large spooky face drawn in biro on the machine door and told me the box WAS the costume and he’d come as a haunted washer-dryer’.

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Posted: Oct 30th, 2009
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Judges to wear headgear from other historical periods

‘I rather fancy wearing a Viking helmet!’

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Posted: May 19th, 2009
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