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Writer Kate Clanchy imagines one child's remarkable school report.

Writers create a fictional response to the week's news. Kate Clanchy imagines one child's remarkable school report.

In a week when the school year ends, and the government's Troubled Families Team reports on funding for interventions with problem families, the award-winning writer Kate Clanchy imagines one child's last day of term.

The Deputy Head ..... Philip Jackson
The Teacher ..... Sarah Smart
The Teaching Assistant ..... Tina Gray

Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting

As well as being one of Britain's leading contemporary poets, Kate Clanchy has won the BBC National Short Story Competition, and written ten plays for radio. Her political memoir 'Antigona and Me' was dramatised on radio as 'What Is She Doing Here?', and her novel, 'Meeting The English', will be published in 2013.

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