#VIVIEN

School in England usually starts at the age of five, but some chil­dren go to nursery school before that. I went to one for three days, when I was three, but I got really bored there and told my mum that I didn’t want to go

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So before I went to a real school she taught me at home. Some people send their children to a creche, where they’re looked after dur­ing the day while their parents are out at work, but she got some books and taught me how to read and write

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So when I went to school at the age of five, I had quite an advantage over the other children.
Anyway, my schooling really started when I was five, and from the age of five until I was nine I went to a private school, which is quite unusual in Eng­land. It was an all-girls’ school run by two old women, Miss and Ms McNamara. The stand­ard was generally very high, and there were subjects like French, Maths and English Lit­erature. I also took subjects like Ballet and Elocution, where we learnt how to speak correctly and we had to memo­rise

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