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• Angela Lowry,
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• I think these are great! So useful and handy, the children love them.
  Could we have some on angles too please?
• Transum,
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• The starter for the 28th May involves estimating angles.
• Transum,
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• The title of today's starter is an old English word meaning dividing into two halves. It was used to describe the process of halving two coat of arms so that they can be represented on the same shield. Dimidiation involves placing the right half of one coat of arms alongside the left half of the other. In the case of marriage, the right half of the husband's arms would be placed alongside the left half of the wife's arms. The practice fell out of use because the result was not always aesthetically pleasing! The word derives from the Latin dimidiat- 'halved', from the verb dimidiare and from dimidium, 'half'. Example of two coats dimidiated [This picture is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike licence]

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