Matilda -- Week 9

The chapter which I finished reading was Matilda's first school attendance.

She was five and a half when she entered school for the first time because her parents were not very concerned about their daughter's education. Crunchem Hall Primary School which she entered had about two hundred and fifty schoolchildren aged from five to just under twelve years old. The head teacher, the boss, the supreme commander of this establishment, was a formidable middle-aged lady whose name was Miss Trunchbull. Naturally Matilda was put in the bottom class, where there were eighteen other small boys and girls about the same age as her. Their teacher was Miss Honey who was more than twenty-three or twenty-four years old. She was a mild and quite person who never raised her voice and was seldom seen to smile, but there is no doubt she possessed that rare gift for being adored by every small child under her care.

Matilda was a genius at school, so she had a commanding presence in front of her classmates and her teacher. But she displayed almost no outward signs of her brilliance and she never showed off. It was therefore easy for her to make friends with other children. All those in her class liked her.

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