Pandemonium at School by Jeremy Strong

Author:Jeremy Strong
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2008-11-02T16:00:00+00:00

Miss Pandemonium handed round a large plastic bowl each. Then she put out several bags of flour, bottles of milk, some big stirring spoons and finally a large, creamy brick. The class stared at it.

‘What’s that?’ asked Theresa.

‘Yeast. Amazing stuff. It’s really alive.’

Luke gave it a poke. ‘It’s not moving,’ he grunted.

‘It’s not even breathing,’ added Karen.

‘I think you should take it to the vet, miss,’ suggested Rebecca.

‘It hasn’t got eyes or legs. How can it be alive?’

Miss Pandemonium picked it up and started to break off big lumps to hand round the class. ‘Yeast is a sort of fungus and –’ She was drowned by a chorus of ‘Yuck!’ from the whole class. They picked up the yeast, sniffed at it and wrinkled their noses in disgust.

‘Oh, it’s not that bad,’ laughed Miss Pandemonium. ‘Every loaf of bread has to start off with some yeast in it. It makes the mixture swell up. Get your bowls and put in some flour.’

It wasn’t long before most of the desks, and the floor too, were covered in flour. The children had white smudges on their faces, halfway up their arms, and all over their trousers, skirts and jumpers where they had tried to wipe their hands clean.

John somehow managed to sneeze straight into his bowl, sending a cloud of flour billowing across the classroom.

‘Urgh!’ cried Sarah. ‘Don’t eat any of that. John’s not making Friendship Cake. He’s making a Sneeze Cake!’

‘Sarah, do you have to be so revolting?’ asked Miss Pandemonium. ‘Just mix up your flour, milk and water, like this.’

The class began to stir away. Some took it slowly and carefully. It was obvious that they had stirred things before. Others whisked round at several thousand miles per hour and were surprised to discover half the contents flying out over the sides and splurging across the carpet.

‘Oops, sorry,’ murmured Amber, as her entire bowl took off from her arm, twizzled about in mid-air and fell to the ground, splattering half a dozen children with soggy flour. But everyone was too busy stirring to take much notice.

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