One Week to Half Term

I'm feeling ok this weekend but its not been a great week due to a lousy cold. Its amazing how fed up a cold can make you feel! I have struggled through and carried on teaching, as any teacher will tell you, its easier to carry on teaching while feeling ill than to have to set work for lessons and deal with the marking, misunderstandings and general mess ups afterwards, after all if they could just get on with the topics without you they wouldn't need you to teach them! I know with the maths if I leave them work to get on with it has to be extremely simple and straightforward or they will get themselves in a muddle without you to guide them. Now I am feeling more alive again and am looking forward to visiting Worcester to see all my friends next weekend and then spending a few days with the parents and having a proper relax. Living in school is great in some ways, no commute and no bills, but it is hard not getting away from my job and the girls. The weather has been great the last couple of days which helps me feel more positive, hopefully it will last and life will seem a bit better.