Treats

7th March 2003, 12:00am

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Treats

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See a show

Tom Courtenay (right) is a hit in Pretending to be Me, his one-man show at the Comedy Theatre, London, based on the life and poems of Philip Larkin. Read Heather Neill’s review of the West Yorkshire Playhouse production (Going out, page 26), then take advantage of our ticket offer: best available seats for pound;20 (top price usually pound;32.50) on Monday-Wednesday performances until April 23. Telephone 020 7369 1731 and quote TES Offer.

At the Dubble

Does your class deserve a treat? Dubble, maker of the fair-trade chocolate bar backed by Comic Relief, is offering a box of chunky Dubble bars for a class nominated by a Friday reader every week this term. To tell us why your kids deserve them, email friday@tes. co.uk, marking your message Dubble offer. Mrs McLennan, a teacher at Westhill primary school in Aberdeenshire, says her Primary 5 class is fantastic - “the kind of class you’d love to keep and will never forget. I’m their number one fan, as well as their teacher.” www.dubble.co.uk has information on fair trade for Dubble Agents.

Take the biscuit

Fancy a breaktime treat for your staffroom, department or school office? Answer our quiz (think biscuit for one of the answers) and you could win two tins of organic Duchy Originals.

1. What part of a house brick is the frog?

2. Which famous Russian aristocrat and novelist gave up all his possessions to live as a peasant?

3. Which deceptively cuddly marsupial’s name means “no drink”?

4. Alyssa Satin Capucilli’s books for children star a puppy called?

5. Pioneer 10, the first man-made object to leave the solar system, lost contact with Nasa last week. What does the plaque on its side depict?

February 28 answers: 1. Seuss; 2. Venice; 3. Tom Jones; 4.

Esperanto; 5. William of Occam

For Take the Biscuit email: friday@tes.co.uk by March 13. First out of the hat will take the biscuits - supplied by Duchy Originals. Teaching materials about organic food and farming - and the answer to one quiz question - are at www.duchyoriginals.com. If you don’t have email, send a postcard, with the name of the offer and your address, to: Tracey Thomas, Friday magazine, 66-68 East Smithfield, London E1W 1BX

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