Easter Holiday!

I'm on my Easter holidays now :)
Tonight I'm going to wash up some dishes then spend the night with 2 other couples playing board games. It's going to be fabulous.

There were no kids at school today so there isn't as much venom in my blood :) End of term means bad mood approaching until you are officially on holiday and then it's euphoric.

To all the educators out there.....

Why does a child that has Special needs (whether great or small) and/or is EAL only get support if they are in danger of hurting someone or themselves?

Part of me wishes that the children in my class and some previous classes learned that fighting will help them. Since I've learned that actually I can't.

Things I can do:

I can teach them the basics but can't help them walk.

I can teach them the basics at the same time (but at the cost of many other able or more able children's education being pushed aside)

Things I can't do:
Help anyone who isn't EAL, SEN or from a terrible family life.


So again I say... if you are a normal studious English speaking "can just get on without much help" perhaps y0u should just start beating people up, bring in guns or just stay at home because I don't have the support to teach you.

Frustrated,
M
x

ps It's not that I don't want to help its I physically am not allowed/can't .

Today's saga

My boiler isn't working again! The water is warm but not hot. The programmer isn't working very well either. How many times do you need to call someone out to get them to fix something? Seriously.... this will be sorted soon or I will flip!

Today I will also be spending the entire day crunching numbers with my Science LEA advisor. Joy o Joy. Alas, someone has to do it.

xo

For Rach!

Most people who read this know Rachel. She is wicked! We met when I was at university. I was a wandering, hyperactive person with no real direction. Rach kicked my butt and brought a lot of things to my attention. She's had up and she's had downs but all along she's been a fabulous friend. Rach now lives in Vancouver so I won't get to see her very often anymore but even though I won't I know she's thinking of me. So if Rach wants me to blog more then I'll try even harder can't let the lady down you know :) I miss her terribly and can't wait to see her smiling face! So this is for Rach....

I was observed teaching yesterday... again... on sunday I basically decided that I wasn't sitting down to plan an amazing lesson so whatever I did was going to be enough. The deputy was disappointed because I only got "very good" instead of "outstanding" I was quite happy considering I made no effort really. *LOL* I guess its all about perspective. 4 more teaching days until 1/2 term. I'm burned out and tomorrow I have to crunch numbers with my LEA advisor.

All my love,
Micky

Finally!

I'm alive! It's been so long since I last blogged but it has been seriously crazy around here. Since I last blogged it was Science Week at school. I was pulling hours from about 6am-midnight consistently for about a week. I barely could stay awake during the day. The only reason I didn't fall asleep was adrenalin. So once that stopped I was exhausted. This week I have had a VERY hard time not falling asleep standing up in my class. Yesterday I managed to rack in about 15 hours of sleep so I'm feeling a lot more like myself. Playing catch up with marking, school stuff generally, cleaning the house, cooking and sleeping is VERY time consuming.

My marking is all done, and we have food in the fridge (thanks to Oli) so I might learn how to cook again.

The weather is crazy here. During Science Week it was about 20 above but all last week it was cold. It even snowed on a couple of occasions.

I feel like I'm getting my life back to normal just in time for my Easter holidays (they start next Friday). So I might even blog regularily again.
xo

A VERY BUSY WEEK!

Man this week has been busy! A huge scale of moods...a huge pile of marking and lots of bits and piece.

I'm in charge of Science Week (12th-16th March) at my school and I have spent every waking moment trying to get it sorted and perfect! But in doing so I have had no time to think.

Its a very good thing though that i've been so busy because we have had no heat or hot water in our flat all week. Our boiler broke down and we are waiting for a new one to be installed on Monday! So we've been showering at our neighbours!

We are on our way out to the movies. We are going to see a movie called 'Hot Fuzz' it apparently like an American cop film but set in a very non exciting English town. I'll let you know all about it!