Well, the Australian Grand Prix Qualifying was a bit of a let down. Torrential rain first delayed it, then eventually stopped it after the first 20 minute session. There will be more about this in a separate post I began writing a long while ago. After this, I had a short nap upstairs again. The […]
Tonight has been filled, once again, with maths assessments. Year 3 was tonight’s focus. Over half way there now. Work was difficult today – lots of hard work. Once again, nothing noteworthy or earth shattering happened though. There are less than 7 hours to go now until the first meaningful action of the F1 season begins in […]
After almost recovering from the disappointment of not becoming Pope, I was told this morning that I couldn’t take my PPA time this afternoon due to much illness in school. I – for the first time in a long time – feel good at the moment. So I’m owed an afternoon. This was particularly difficult, […]
Today has been a usual day of work, where very little happened overall, followed by a staff meeting and then home to work on more maths assessments. Year 2 was the focus of tonight. It is roughly 80% complete now and I expect to be able to complete it tomorrow. Still have Years 3 to […]
I spent the night creating Year 1 maths assessments – an utterly boring and generally thankless task. It’s something that I really need to do and yet never actually want to. Over the coming evenings I shall be doing the same for years 2 to 6. So don’t expect these blogs to be anything but […]
I had a follow up visit to the hospital today to complete an Exercise Tolerance Test. This is to see how my heart performs under stress in a controlled environment and is not fun. I’m not a complete layabout, but I’m not known for my passion for exercise either. The test was held in a […]
On this day in 1876, Alexander Graham Bell finally got his invention working: the telephone. It worked nothing like our phones today: the very first phones were sold in pairs, where each phone could call only that one other phone (you had to pick that other person carefully). Then came the “switchboard,” which let you […]
Haven’t done a huge amount of stuff today. Did a little bit of work after tidying up earlier. Emma and Jon are over for Mother’s Day so they came and met Kit – who didn’t hide away the whole time. Which was good. I suppose this is what a Saturday should be like. A little […]
Today is notable for it being Captain Satsuma’s first birthday. He has spent a whole year in his bowl now and we’ve not even managed to kill him once. That’s not an easy thing to achieve for a messy thing like a goldfish, but with some careful management, we’ve done it. In other news, Mrs Pitts returned […]
Thursday’s are generally one of my favourite days of the week – particularly now that my PPA (Planning, Preparation and Assessment) time has been moved to that afternoon. However, this afternoon was spent at a Maths meeting discussing children‘s work – clearly children I’ve never met. It was a reasonably useful time. I don’t quite […]