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Wednesday 18 June 2014

Things Matthew Gorse Did.

I went to primary school on a bus like this - Lewis Coaches
On the bus
Matthew Gorse
sat
playing
with a piece of thick wire.

Mr Lewis had
to stop
suddenly.

Matthew Gorse’s head
went
straight onto
the piece of wire.

The sharp end went into his skin
right
in the middle
of his forehead.

Matthew Gorse
just sat there
looking around at us.
Then we saw the blood
- it started to form a big blob
where the wire had gone in.
Then it started to run down his nose.
But Matthew Gorse
didn’t notice
- he just kept sitting there looking round at us
as if he could see things we couldn’t see.

When we shouted,
Mr Lewis
stopped the bus in the hedge.
He climbed out of his seat
and came back to look
at
Matthew Gorse.
He told him how
stupid
he was to be playing
with
a piece of thick wire
in the bus
and he gave him a handkerchief
to hold all the blood.

In assembly,
on Thursday,
Matthew Gorse
did another thing
because
he did not want the teachers to be cross.

When he needed to go to the toilet
he did not ask
if he could go to the toilet
 instead
he just went
to the toilet
where he was -
in his pants.

We knew he had quite quickly
because of the smell
but Miss White
didn’t notice for a bit -
then when she did notice
she stood him up from the bench
and after she had smacked his leg
she told him he had
done a stupid thing
and she asked him if he was still a baby
and did he need a nappy
and she pulled him
out in front of everyone
and took him off
to her classroom.

Mr Higham
put the foot catch on the door
to let some fresh air in.

Later,
at playtime
Matthew Gorse
was stood around
in someone else’s shorts -
he probably had
someone else’s
underpants on too,
but we couldn’t see them.

He had to take his home,
in a carrier bag

- all brown -

on the bus.


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