Sentences with phrase «cleverest girl in class»

Throughout my life I've always aimed to be the best at something, be the cleverest girl in class, the best netball player etc..

Then one day one of the clever girls in my class showed me a real table (I mean a matrix not furniture) that she had drawn and coloured - in rather attractively, numbering 1 to 12 along the top and down the side and displaying plain as day the multiplication tables, even making it possible to follow a line say from 4 along the top and 6 along the side and find in the cell where they joined the number 24.

Not exact matches

Eventually, I passed my 11 + and was sent to a grammar school, where instead of being the brightest in my class, I was one of many clever girls and I hovered somewhere around the middle, in terms of achievement.

Eventually, I passed my 11 + and was sent to a grammar school, where instead of being the brightest in my class, I was one of many clever girls and...