Loads of children were running through, around the corner. And then, I was walking, and then, Sean ran past me and jumped while I was walking. And then, he hit me, and fell over. He fell face first on the floor. He laid there for about, a few seconds, and when he looked up, there was blood, all down his face. So, he walked off, and then, at that point, I felt like - I felt lonely, no one else was there. It was like time froze, I wasn't sure what to do.

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English - supply teacher, the class is kind of hyper. A friend gets dared to do something in class, which he does.

Two weeks later, in English again, in the same room, Josh dared me to write up the whole story on the wall. The teacher caught me writing it. I had to explain why I did it - I told her what had happened, and said I was too traumatised by the experience, so I had to write about it. It didn't work, I got a Saturday detention.

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I was running away from someone, and there was water on the floor (from the hosepipe), and I didn't notice. So when I ran, I slipped over the water and fell down the stairs and hit my bum. And in the morning I got a big bruise.

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Josh was there, Jonathan was there and then Mark was like, directly here. And then a sandwich was - I kicked it, under the table

Yeah, you kicked it, and I went like that, and stepped on it. It didn't really stick to my foot or anything. And then Nick just got it, and just like, hurled it - I think he was aiming for Josh...

And I ducked out the way of it, and it hit Mark in the face. And he had sort of, butter and everything on his face.

He had like, butter and mayonnaise, and he went nuts. He came to Nick, and then Jonathan came, for no reason, slapped him on the head. And then Mark went nuts, and then he calmed down again.

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I was there, and then I think someone pushed me, and I fell down the stairs. And I landed like, on my hands and knees. It was a couple of months before Christmas. I had a big fat bruise on my knee.

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I fell off my chair. I was leaning back on it. I put my foot up on the table, and it just fell. People laughed.

People say that the back of that classroom is haunted. The back row of the science classroom - L17. Someone once said that some girl's hair got pulled, when no one was behind her. Stuff like that.

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In the science lab the teacher was having a go, taking the mick out of my handwriting and my work - saying it wasn't good enough, that I'd cheated on the exam.

I didn't like it, so I had a confrontation with her, I was dropping abusive, personal comments, which me and my friends would say to each other, but to her it got a bit personal. I know I shouldn't have said it. I was suspended for four weeks - it was the last time.

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It came to my head straight away. It started at the beginning of Year 9 - basketball practice every Thursday after school - we were all putting in our all, working hard. Then one day, I don't know how they determined it - they were going to pick the team. We were all sitting on the gym floor, looking up at the gym teacher, anxiously waiting to know if we were chosen for the team. I wasn't chosen that time.

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On the first day at school I went to my classroom, and I didn't know where to go. And I didn't know anyone who was in my class. And there was a boy that I did know, and who went to my primary school, and on the real, actual day that we had to come to Raine's in our uniform and everything, he didn't turn up, and he hasn't been in the school since - he'd moved to Ghana. So I had no one in my class that I knew from primary school. Then my brother, who was in year 8, told me where to go and everything - which classroom to go to.

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It was here that I play basketball, and what it is, is that you can play all different games. I was playing basketball. I got a rebound off here, and I sort of just like, took the ball to more or less half way, and then shot. It kind of went in.

Then they tried to do it, but it don't actually work, 'cause I'm taller than most people. So I stopped it, went around someone, then I laid it up against the back board and it went in.

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Well, last week, my last lesson, on sixth period, when I was coming to this lesson - science. I punched _______, and then he, he grabbed me, put me in a head lock, we were walking down the stairs, he slipped, then I fell over, and landed there, he landed on his knee. I went inside, and I found that I couldn't bend down, and I couldn't run. So I went down to office, and they said they couldn't do anything about it. So I had to just wait until home time. It hurt the bottom of my pelvis. I went to hospital that day and then they said it wasn't fractured - a bit bruised, and it would heal within three days.

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It was the first - like, because I started at the beginning of... end of year 9. And the science lab was the first classroom that I went. My form class. It felt quite scary.

I was sitting with people that... the head of year puts us with someone to look after us.

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Once I was in the classroom, and it was just when we were all packing up. And Jordan behind me, he was going to pass me something. So I leant back, and I went to grab it, and my chair fell back, underneath the table. And it sort of hurt, and everyone was laughing. My cheeks went red, and I got well embarrassed.

The teacher said, 'firstly, it's not natural to laugh, and secondly, are you alright?'

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It was in expressive arts, and we were playing a game. I had to close my eyes and wait for something. But then everybody hid, around the room. So I didn't know what was happening, cause the teacher played a trick on me.

It's not really that big a moment, but I just thought it'd be good in a picture. So like the whole room surrounding me, and I'm right in the middle.

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