ABSTRACT
It is an English winter day: dark, cold and damp. With difficulty we have located Port Primary and are only ten minutes late. Ten days earlier, we had spoken to an official of the local education authority requesting his permission to visit primary schools, and asking that we begin in a school which was neither famous nor inundated with Americans. He had questioned us carefully. We told him we would welcome the opportunity to help out in the schools, and that except for occasional day-visits to other schools, we would spend every day in the same school for four or more weeks. He promised that within a few days he would find a school where we could begin our work and subsequently we could make our own arrangements, though he wished to be informed of our whereabouts. Six days later, he called to tell us that Mr Nigel, Head teacher at Port Primary School in the village of Port, was expecting us on the following Monday morning.
