This isn't natural...........
It's Christmas Day and I'm wondering whether Billy should be in the Pentagons or the Squares for Maths.
(trans.) - it's no real!
My school was closed all last week.
The upside of this was
1) I managed to get my CPD folder up to date
2) I prepared an extra week's lessons and
3) I built an awesome snowman with my daughter.
The downside was
4) I realised just how many people think teachers are complete wasters in times like these.
So this week (so far) my school is still closed to pupils but now the teachers have to turn up. Why? Not sure. To prove they're alive I think. Not even to their own school. Any old school in the area will do, as long as they are inconvenienced in some way. A classic example of a race to the bottom.
Like many schools not in a city centre, we are not next to a train station, and so with the buses cancelled, I dug my car out of the snow and set off on my adventure despite police urging motorists to stay at home. (Sorry guys I need the cash). Needless to say it was a slippy,slidey,wheelspinning,ungritted roller coaster of a journey. At least I got there and back eventually. A fellow colleague got stuck and had to call the AA - apparently they are bored waiting for the phone to ring these days anyway.
Tomorrow I shall be walking. I'll have to set off at half past six in the morning and I might get run over by a snow plough but hey-ho, at least it will prove I am a responsible citizen able to understand the different beliefs and cultures....of my council.