Vital careers advice to six-year-old me | Brief letters
There is nothing new about giving primary school children careers advice and motivation (Children as young as five in England target of new careers programme, 5 January). When I was six, my teacher told me that if I didn’t learn to spell properly I would never get a good job. My reply, that when working I would have a secretary and therefore not need to spell, was not seen as evidence of high aspiration.
Ian Sissling
Otley, West Yorkshire
Re Rishi Sunak’s conversation with Dean, a homeless man, in a shelter (Letters, 2 January), I recall listening to a resident teaching ancient Greek to the manager of a fantastic project near Chancery Lane in London, run by St Mungo’s. He’d been a classics teacher in a former life. Every rough sleeper has a backstory.
Helen Keats
Former national rough sleeping adviser
Last week, I received a reply in the post to my two recent brief letters (8 December; 25 December). It had my name, followed by “the Bread Sauce Preservation Society” and my village and county. It took 20 days to reach me, which, given the sparsity of the address, is a credit to the Post Office. There now is another member, welcome Steve. Brief letters brighten my day, every day.
Gill Empson
Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire
On 5 January, I received a Christmas card that was posted first-class in North Yorkshire on 7 December. Is this a record?
Graham Russell
Market Drayton, Shropshire
Did any of the people pictured skiing on artificial snow in Gstaad (6 January) use air travel to get there? If so, how wonderfully ironic.
Hazel Pennington
Bath