Twenty Sets Of Twins Enrolled
At Same School
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The Grange says it has so much experience teaching twins that it specialises in looking after them.
Ariel Leese-Jones, whose four-year-old girls, Athena and Bianca, have just started at the school, said her daughters felt more comfortable with other twins in the playground.
"They are in the same class and this seems to have worked really well," she said. "There's been no starting-school trauma as it's been a case of waking up with your best friend then going to school with her.
"Having said that, they are different personalities and they have also made different friends."
Stephen Bennett, the principal, said his staff always treated pupils as individuals and were not afraid to separate brothers and sisters if they felt they would benefit.
"Some twins, especially when starting school, seem to flourish better with the close support of their brother or sister. Others are keen to stop being one of a pair as soon as possible. Just because twins start off together, doesn't mean they remain that way.
"The golden rule, of course, is to treat them as the individuals they are. Forget they are twins, even if they look alike." But Mr Bennett admitted that teachers were sometimes baffled.
"Form teachers very rarely get the twins mixed up, but it certainly can happen.
"We have one pair of twins who are so alike that even their brother sometimes gets them mixed up."
Nation wide in the UK, there has been a steady increase in multiple births, attributed to fertility treatments such as IVF. At present, one in 34 babies born is a twin, compared with one in 52 in 1980.
The Grange School in Hartford, near Northwich, Cheshire, England achieved the distinction of having twenty sets of twins enrolled at the same time.
That means that roughly one in 28 of those attending the 1,140-pupil school in Cheshire is a twin.
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