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‘She’s been talking about it all year’: school at Derbyshire festival gets top grades from children

School at Bearded Theory festival allows parents to enrol children without incurring fines for absences

In a sunny classroom a group of children are constructing music festival stages out of cardboard; in the “playground” outside another class are learning how to throw a diabolo. “We follow the national curriculum, and all the schemes of work, and lesson plans do, but we’re just a bit creative with it,” Dave Hancox, the school’s SEN co-ordinator, said. “It originally came from when the laws changed around school absences,” Hancox said, with a lot of parents worrying they would be fined if they brought their children for longer than a weekend.

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