The Five Things I Hate…
Date posted: 04-01-10Article written by
…about the start of term are:
1) How cold my classroom is for about three days until it is eventually warmed solely by the breath of my students. Not, the radiator, obviously.
2) How, without fail, despite numerous traps, another mouse has eaten through the whiteboard cable.
3) The overlong and tedious ‘catch up’ meetings we have with the SLT. What is there to catch up? I ate turkey, drank too much, and New Year was disappointing – nothing changes.
4) The fact that mocks are in about three days.
5) My end-of-holiday headache that takes exactly nine and half days to shift; without fail.

January 4th, 2010 at 8:46 am
6) the dark, black mornings, with no sign of let up.
January 4th, 2010 at 8:59 am
7) The new ‘amazing’ registration system that says one of my pupils is absent when she’s standing in front of me.