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THE REEDER 2021
OR NEWS
Class Notes Enjoy reading about the exciting news and updates from ORs and former staff
Chloe Abbott (Blathwayt 1992) It has been another very exciting year for the family and work. Education Choices magazine has proven to be a very popular option for parents and schools and we are now a limited company.
degree at Exeter Penryn in International Relations and even has grown a moustache! He is enjoying surfing and the beaches at Falmouth have kept him going throughout the pandemic.
We’ve built links and worked with both Reed’s and Ripley Court and it has been wonderful to be in touch with some of my old teachers, not to mention reconnecting with so many ORs, even featuring XULA, Tony Wild’s (Bristowe 1991) specialist face mask company.
Annabel Amodia-Bidakowska (Blathwayt 2009) I graduated from Girton College, Cambridge in July 2021, having completed my PhD ‘Disciplinary Dialogues: Examining the influence of subjects on classroom dialogue, activity type and learning outcomes in English primary schools.’ This followed on from my BSc and MA in Psychology, all brought about by my love for the subject at Reed’s! I am delighted to have also recently published a paper, which was featured in The Guardian, looking at how fatherchild play can be linked to positive social, emotional and cognitive outcomes, impacting a child’s development.
I was honoured to be invited to join a ‘Reed’s Boys’ Facebook chat; we are attempting a reunion and look forward to it when it happens. We did agree to change the name, as I am actually a girl, to ‘Reed’s Boys and Girl’, which did cause some amusement! (I was the only girl at Reed’s then.) My son, Joe Barker (Blathwayt 2019), is now fast approaching the end of his
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