Quite a lazy day overall. My main aim for the day was to get the number of unread emails down in my Inbox and make a few changes to a couple of my websites. I have run the web site for school since last December and it takes up a fair bit of time to say the […]
Today has involved cleaning, shopping, a brief cache (to continue filling up our calendar), and a tiny bit of work. The above map shows the 105.8 miles that we have taken the Yorkshire Traveller Travel Bug over the past few months. We dropped it in the cache GC1V63W. This item only wanted to stay within […]
I’ve been sneezing all day. That’s the down side to a half term, the guaranteed illness as my body decides that enough is enough and all defences are let down to allow some variety of cold virus into my body. A relatively uneventful day to be fair. We attempted a couple of caches. We couldn’t […]
The half term is fast approaching now and colleagues of mine are, or rather appear to be, more tired than I am. Teaching can be a draining job, and usually I feel much more ready for a holiday than right now. The bitty nature of the last few weeks for me has probably helped me […]
Today has been fairly ordinary. Snow fell, but that’s becoming old news. Can’t remember many times when we have had so many distinct instances of snow. The remainder of a maths assessment was administered, marked, spreadsheeted and analysed. This was the 2011 SAT paper, the last one I took children through at my previous school. […]
A great day at work. My barely planned training went down a treat, and I proved to myself that I really do know what I’m talking about. This may be a bit of a turning point for the future. We shall see. I really don’t enjoy being away from my class as I’ve said before, […]
Today has been another long day. The morning featured assessments at school, with the children sat working quietly and well on their own. The afternoon was disrupted by a few things: some children being borrowed by their maths teacher (I teach a separate cohort of children for maths to my usual bunch) to complete some […]
Not much happened today. I did some work, found a cache (GC239ZK), felt like rubbish, had a nap, went to Grange Moor for a rehearsal (curtailed due to snow), watched Nanny McPhee and accepted an offer to play in three week’s time at the Yorkshire Areas for Knottingley Silver – looking forward to that. I hadn’t seen […]
My head is still niggling me. Keep topping my pain relief up and that is working. Spent a lot of the day with my head in data, either analysing it, or creating it in the form of marking reading tests and writing a report about pupil’s views on maths in school. We did a quick […]
Nothing massive to report today. Work was the usual spread of good and bad things, managing different opinions and ideas – not always successfully. And then children get added into the mix to make life that extra bit complicated. Anyway, away from work, my head still isn’t wonderful. A good lie in tomorrow will solve […]