After noticing a growing number of adults wearing pyjamas – not just to the school gates in the morning, but also at meetings, assemblies and even the Christmas show and parents' evenings – primary school head Kate Chisholm wrote to parents asking them to wash and get dressed before the school drop-off.
The word "thing", in Old English, means a meeting or assembly.
I remember shortly after undergraduate women officially arrived at Princeton in the fall of 1969, a meeting or assembly where the results of the Patterson report were reviewed.
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In this democracy, public decisions were made not by officials, and not even by elected representatives, but every public decision was made by the entire citizen body meeting in assembly.
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"We are trying to raise standards and get better outcomes for the children and we noticed a lot of the parents are turning up to school as well as meetings and assemblies wearing pyjamas.
She has just sent home a letter to parents asking them to get dressed properly and stop doing the school run and – on occasion – coming to school meetings and assemblies in pyjamas and slippers, as they are increasingly doing.
They are also working to secure an indoor space, out of health and safety concerns, where they will conduct committee meetings, General Assemblies and educational events.
