When I was designing the world of Schooled in Magic, I threw in a comment about Laughter Academy as a joke, a tongue-in-cheek reference to Cackles Academy from The Worst Witch. This bit me later as I had to send first Nanette (Nanette’s Tale) and then Emily (Little Witches) herself to the school, forcing me to flesh out the academy as a girls-only institution that had only ever had one male student (and that ended so badly the facility swore it would never happen again). This isn’t that story, but I may try to write it one day.
This story was originally planned as an early Emily story, but I decided it made more sense to have it following a different character.
There’s no real time period for this story, but I tend to think of it as taking place between Nanette’s Tale and Little Witches.