ABSTRACT

My favourite toy right now is a pack of cards, produced by the Young Enterprise group at my children’s old school. It is a variant on ‘Top Trumps’ entitled ‘Teacher Trumps’, in which 30 of the hapless staff of Royal Hospital school are photographed and allocated points according to years in post (the longest is 34), strictness, coolness, and hierarchy (though I notice that no one gets lower than five out of 10, which is prudent. It would be very wounding to a sensitive newly qualified teacher to score only one for hierarchy).