On Wednesday, when she should be at the much-hated functional skills lesson (basically maths and English classes) at college, she lies to me and does not go.
Jon Trickett, the shadow cabinet minister, expressed fear that Treasury civil servants were being used to feed Conservative propaganda: "I really think Maude needs a lesson in maths … you have to take the pluses and the minuses to calculate the real cost of something like this".
As well as one-hour lessons in maths and English there are after-school clubs - called Wonder Women lessons - designed to build-up girls' confidence and give them a chance to talk to role models.
I went to school with children who had weekend Kumon lessons in maths.
Despite being in a permanent state of dread and anxiety, Martha took lessons in maths and English, volunteered for the city bike hire and gardened at the local allotments.
Children who fear that they have too many violin and dancing lessons, extra maths and infant Japanese and not enough time to play should save up and buy this for their parents.
At St Alban's on Friday morning, alongside normal morning lessons – English, maths, table tennis in the hall – the school council, which meets regularly (often to talk about the food or toilets), has been discussing how to respond to the horrific events in Paris when Islamist gunmen murdered 17 people.
I remember being sat in a year 3 bible studies class at my Jewish primary school, a part of my education taught in parallel to lessons in maths, English and science as if they were each one and of the same.
The sounds of lessons in maths, English, Turkish and the Koran ring through the living rooms and bedrooms, and the garden has become a lively playground.
For example, if a maths lesson is about Pythagoras' theorem it may incorporate the KICC building- a famous building in downtown Nairobi – as an example.
