I didn't know carrots grew on trees!

Autumn term is just under two weeks away, so we’re launching a series of blogs to help you get back into the swing of things. This includes lifestyle features, wellbeing advice and comment pieces, as well as blogs offering practical resources and tips for the new year. 

You can follow everything we do via our hashtag #teachersback. We’ve also made a short animation, below, based on a call out we made a few weeks ago for teachers to tell us the funny things students say to them. Lorna Page, from Pipers Corner school in Buckinghamshire, got in touch to tell us that on a recent ski trip, a pupil looked at a tree with pine cones on it, and exclaimed, “I didn’t know carrots grew on trees?”

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