Four sets of twins at Pott Row
IDENTICAL twins may turns heads elsewhere but seeing double is not unusual at one West Norfolk primary school.
For Pott Row First School has four sets of identical twins enrolled – one in every year group!
Headteacher Mrs Michelle Petzer said: "I don't think we'll be expecting any more this year, but you never know!"
It is thought the school has one of the highest percentages of twins in the country. With 53 pupils on the register, the twins make up a bumper 15 per cent.
The newest arrivals are reception class twins Owen and Dylan Burge, aged four. They joined five-year-olds Nina and Jennifer Dahl, who are in Year One, Sophie and Emma Fenn, aged six and in Year Two, and the oldest twins Oliver and Thomas Graves, both seven, who are in Year Three.
"There can be confusion and occasionally we get their names wrong, but fortunately they haven't got to the stage of playing tricks on us," said Mrs Petzer. "But they are very quick to correct us if we mix them up!"
She said Oliver and Thomas can be quite hard to tell apart. Staff are grateful to the parents of Sophie and Emma, as their hair is cut differently. "It makes it a lot easier to tell them apart!" she added.
The number of twins at Pott Row would have been highly unusual once. In the 1980s, there were around nine sets of twins born for every 1,000 pregnancies.
Today, there are about 15 sets of twins for every 1,000, partly because of the increase in fertility drugs.
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