What’s your favourite lesson?
Issie: PE, because it’s fun and I’m good at it.
May: Literacy. I like writing stories and using my imagination.
What makes a good teacher?
Issie: Someone who is jolly and makes me laugh and helps me when I get stuck.
May: Someone who helps you out with problems and explains things well.
What do you like and dislike about school?
Issie: I mostly like school because it is fun and the work isn’t too hard. I don’t like the soap in the toilets because it smells funny.
May: I most like to play on the school field in summer. I can’t really think of anything I dislike about school.
What’s your favourite lesson?
Issie: It was probably a science lesson with Mrs Banbury where we dyed real flowers and celery.
May: Making pancakes with Mrs Wardle and eating them.
What stops you from learning?
Issie: My friends sometimes make me laugh in class.
May: I can’t learn when my friends are poking me in the back with pencils.
What would you change about school?
Issie: The toilets because I got locked in one. They should be easier to get out of.
May: The music room so that it’s bigger and we have more room to play.
What would you introduce if you were headteacher?
Issie: I would like a Pets Day at school. Some people would like to see other people’s pets because they have heard all about them.
May: I would like to bring in people from other countries to teach different languages.
What would you like to be when you are older?
Issie: I would like to be a famous gymnast because I am good at it and it’s fun.
May: I think I’ll be a gardening teacher when I grow up because I like gardening and getting muddy.
What’s your favourite slang?
Issie: I like saying rotten apple. It means you smell like a rotten apple.
May: Sometimes when my mum asks me to clean out the guinea pigs hutch I say: “Whatever,” which means “OK, I’ll do it.”
What’s your most treasured possession?
Issie: My Pooh bear cross stitch because grandad made that and now he has died.
May: It has to be my heart pendant that says Best on it. I gave the other half (with Friend written on it) to my friend.
What’s your favourite clothes label?
Issie: I like to wear Marks Spencer clothes and if we go there I force my mum to buy me chewing gum because I’m mad on it. I have 31 pieces at home.
May: Next.
What’s your earliest memory?
Issie: I remember me and May had a secret language; only our sister could tell what we were saying.
May: I was in reception when I banged my head in a pool. I still have a scar.
What would your superpower be?
Issie: To be able to rewind or fast forward time.
May: I would like to bring things to me without having to go get them.
“If I was prime minister for a day I would ... ”.
Issie: Lie in and have a nice hot bubble bath before breakfast in bed. I would then meet the Queen and we could have a pyjama party.
May: Hold a Parliamentary meeting about a different way of making paper without wasting trees.
