Bah Humbug

Over Christmas and the New Year I will be leaving the land of broadband and going to the frozen north, when the only computers we have are steam-driven ZX Spectrums. Therefore you may hear little from me for the next couple of weeks.

To bring you up to speed on the teacher training side of things, term is now over and the holidays have begun in earnest. In fact, the holidays are nearly half over already, and precious little work has yet been done. I am carrying some materials up north so I can escape into lesson planning over the festive period, as I want to have at least my first week of lessons sorted before I return to the fray.

The last week of term was fairly good fun, on the whole. I confess that on the last day I did show my year 8s a film, but it was very much curriculum based and as such not a capital offence. My year 10s worked admirably until the last lesson, and on the last day I received some fantastic sonnets from my yr 9s. Things won't be so relaxed when we get back. In the new year there shall be much official assessment (of the pupils, as well as of me) and a veritable feast of learning.

Yea, 2006 shall be a year of great wisdom and prosperity.