I'm exhausted, but I made it through the first week back at school. We had to be in on Tuesday and Wednesday for INSET, meetings and induction for the new pupils. I don't enjoy these sorts of days, usually we are being told about some new directive we should be implementing, some new policy decision for how we should conduct our lessons or a different way we should be teaching our lessons. I come away wondering why I bother as I'm obviously doing it all wrong! The girls were back on Thursday but no lessons, we had form time and individual interviews. Today we actually started teaching, which is far better - although I had to prepare lessons its good to be back in the classroom. When I'm in a lesson it feels right, I am a teacher and the girls are learning and for the most part enjoying it, though obviously most of them would never admit to enjoying a maths lesson! For many of them I feel good if I get "It was ok" or "It wasn't as bad as I thought"! It was a bit of a struggle today because the whole structure of the day has changed so I had to keep an eye on the clock all the time to make sure I got the lessons the right length, I'm so used to the old timings they have become automatic. Even though its only been a four day week, I'm tired out, I'd got used to the holidays and I'm not used to getting up early. The sad thing is I know within a few days the holidays will be a distant memory and it will be as if we had never been away. Still its only 6 weeks to half term!!!
