You might ask where a student’s family comes from. I have a big world map on the wall and I put a photo of each child and link it to the UK and where the child or their parents are from with a thread. The children have always loved it and it makes the point that whilst they might all come from different places they have all made the UK their home.

But that’s about it. I don’t ever ask about religion (the Muslim kids always tell you, without fail and repeatedly), or anything else. The stuff we need to know for admin reasons is obviously collected but from the parents and it’s confidential.

It’s remarkable what little children will voluntarily tell you, to the point that I often have to ask them to stop sharing.