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School children wrote on wooden tablets covered in wax that could be scratched on with a wooden stick known as a stylus. To count, they used an
, which was a wooden frame with rows of beads. A teacher, known as a grammatistes, taught the boys how to read, write and do sums.
After going to school, rich boys were expected to become , soldiers or teachers. Boys from poorer families would learn the trade of their father, such as farming or pot-making.
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• Digby the cat
• A boy holding some grapes
• Someone holding a frog
• Tom
• A dog who has stolen a walking stick
• A boy who has drawn a face on their tablet • A grammatistes looking very angry
