Two sets of triplets and a pair of twins all start school in the same class

Two sets of triplets and one pair of twins all started school at the same time at Woodham Walter near Maldon in Essex. Credit: ITV News Anglia

It's pretty rare to come across triplets - but even rarer to find two sets in the same village, born at virtually the same time.

That's just what's happened in Essex where the three boys and three girls have started school at the same time - and what's more they've done so alongside a pair of twin boys in the same class.

Amazingly it means the single children in reception at Woodham Walter Primary near Chelmsford are outnumbered by their multiple counterparts.

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