Lilibet

That’s lovely Ellianne

Anniebach

trisher you do not know those children were carefully picked, fact. You assume they were carefully picked, you don’t
know if that school was a difficult school either.

I don't suppose it was a difficult school for a RF visit Annie. However I have worked in difficult schools and seen prestige visitors welcomed by children who could be trusted to behave themselves and not swear or otherwise upset the visitor.

Ellianne

Sophie (and Edward) planted a tree in our school garden. The visit was of no educational value, but the children named it Sophie's tree and anyone who was feeling sad or left out could go and sit on the bench under it. That was of far more value to them, as a little sanctuary, and made them feel safe and special. It's how you use the royals' visits. Little things.

It shouldn't take a royal visit for a school to establish a place of safety or a friendship bench for the children. In fact it's quite common and has been since before I retired, along with the Buddy system. Googling it I see it has now become big business with specialist firms making special "Buddy Benches". Ours was just a wooden seat.

Oh come on trisher, if you read my post it was the children who created the spot, in addition to other areas on the premises, including the pet area for comforting. You can have more than one. And yes, it has been around for ages.

Yes Trisher, sounds like the same book. All about the lead up to Edward V111 becoming king, the abdication and then the coronation of George V1.

It has an impressive gold cover, I thought it was very posh when I was little. When Mum died, I claimed it.

Thanks Calendargirl I do wonder what happened to my gran's copy. Mind she could just have given it away. She had a habit of doing that if somebody said they liked something.