A 5 year-old girl stands outside her south London home on the first day of proper school, a momentous day and a rite of passage. Standing on the path by the front door of an Edwardian period south London home, the girl holds a brand new book bag with the initials of her local school of St Saviour's, repeated on her school jumper. She looks calm but is inwardly nervous of the day about to unfold - a rite of passage for every schoolchild, climbing the ladder of life.
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