Morning all!
Half term at last - hooray!
LOM - My HoD told us about the new initiative, trying to persuade me to do it - 'it's ideal for part-timers' - yes, but I'm already working 3 full days a week and 2 days of tutoring would make me full-time, duh! We've got in a former member of staff who doesn't want to retire yet, but likes the part-time hours. It's working really well for the kids that do it.
Loopy - William seems to quite enjoy the odd tantrum at the moment, but usually because he doesn't want to go in his pushchair, he would rather walk for miles - great but not so handy when I've got to do the shopping or we're walking to the common which is over a mile away and when we get there the novelty has worn off and he wants me to carry him.
My brother lives in Plymouth and is always complaining that he doesn't get to see DD and DS often enough, you could take DD round to his for a few hours break!!
RG - glad you're enjoying Stickman! DD likes to act it out when we're reading it, which is very funny, and William knows some of the words now.
I've had a very busy, odd week this week. At DD's parent-teacher interview I was told she is blossoming, above average for numeracy (she doesn't get that from me, I can tell you!) and generally doing brilliantly, which was really lovely.
Then on Wednesday at work we were told of the death of a colleague . He was diagnosed with cancer in November. Such a lovely, inspirational teacher, a real loss to the profession, school and his family. Some of the students have taken it pretty badly, but many are already planning lovely memorials to him in school and want to do something positive.