“Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.”
Malala Yousafzai
Thanks for that quote, Spidey. That Malaa is one wise young woman.
I’ll be honest. I am still shattered.
Two weeks off work, and even though we haven’t done anything over the top, personal circumstances have left me less rested than before.
Am I excited to go back?
It’s a busy big term, as you can guess.
On top of the main job of educating the children, we have a couple of short weeks due to bank holidays, including the one for the King’s Coronation. Then there is the writing of reports, the assessing of children at the end of the year, progress meetings, as well as, for me, the huge task of looking at the new entrants to our school, due in September, filtering through them, contacting the parents, and trying to allocate classes for them, looking at transition activities for our current children, to ease them into the world of Year One, after their Reception year, as well as meeting the children who will be in our hands, after. ( And I hear there are chances of more strikes from certain unions, which, though for important causes, doesn’t make our lives any easier in the present moment…)
I am already looking at that May half-term, two-week break with joy! (Which will be busy, too, since Lil Man’s A-levels will start, and there is the small matter of book two being released in the middle of it!), and then the summer vacation, another six weeks later!
But, honestly, I am not wishing the time away. I love being with the children but could do without the paperwork and red tape.
Still, at least I have the breaks to look forward to!
So, Peeps, how do you get over the back-to-work blues?😊
But I Smile Anyway... 