At 10.30 every morning, after the second lesson of the day, the bell high on the roof of Half Hitch School would chime three times and every class would run outside into the playground that formed a square in the centre of the school buildings and - through a bright tunnel that went under the Academy - a grassy field of hills and slides down one side of the school, too.
Margo and Mohammed were in Mr Bloom’s class and would often play with others from Mr Bloom’s class too, but today they were playing with Abby and Sam from Mrs Kipper’s class. The game they’d invented was putting a hoop on the ground and then throwing or kicking a ball as high as you could and trying to make it land in the - wait… What was that?
