The Interregnum - Dec 22nd

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Watermelon earrings I commissioned for the Lizards this year

My birthday spread put on by Emma!!

My Christmas present from the class

Timely reminder, in case you needed it

Waiting for Ghin - watching Iceman on this travel prog Oisin loves


I'm posting retrospectively. The 22nd was the last day of school. There was a Teachers Choir which I did not join. My son told me that I was a bit Sigma. I do agree. I have a slight allergy to these things. I think years of trauma doing collective activities has left its mark. I don't like taking part in Team Building days. I find it utterly pointless. Maybe I am Sigma. Anyway it is not against the law to not take part in these things. 

I am 53 years old and I'm allowed to do what I want.

But this birthday - well I'll write about it in the next post. The last day of school is always a bit silly. We had such a lovely time though. There was a lot of singing over the course of the last four weeks - which was alright for me. But the class is doing really well. Over the next six months we are going to work on their spellings. I'm really going to put them through their paces for that. The reading is coming on really well, the next thing is the spelling. Writing is going well too. We have tightened that up. And the maths is great. They are going great guns. Everyone is on the path to being able to have good foundations to do maths in the coming year.

So times tables will be the next thing we work on for the next six months. Everything else is going great. I'm so pleased with this.

Apart from that though, it is the behaviour which is the hardest work. But i'm working on that too.

Christmas has come and gone. It feels so swift. We had hardly any time to get ready before we had Christmas. But the last day of school.... what did I do? Yes. I went to see Emma. I am so delighted that she has made a breakthrough.

The lesson - one of the lesson I have learnt was that I must not gossip about other people. And I do not. It is such a liberation that I have managed to stop doing this. Or getting pulled into gossip groups. These things are so toxic. They end up hurting the people who are involved in them so much. I have seen it all first hand. I am so glad that this no longer exists for me. 

Finally, Ghin played at the school assembly. He is just awesome. Just incredibly talented and musical.

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