ABSTRACT
The children were sitting fairly close together, and the time was deliberately cut down to ensure as far as could be that no one having finished would copy extracts from his neighbours, with or without discussion. With the younger children the usual method was for the class teacher to give the essays, after a talk on the same lines as to the seniors, to one class, but all the classes in a school wrote during the same morning or afternoon. With very small children the teachers made a note of what the children said when talking freely to them. Many children chose to write about their foster parents and their billets, and in the girls’ essays, the people in their new homes have found their way into the essays more often and at greater length than for the boys.
