Friday, December 5, 2014

Month in numbers November 2014


It's been a while since I recorded my numbers :) why is that?  

Because I have 1 new job :) 0.64 part time but actually lots of hours planning, marking and supervising detentions!  It is a brilliant job but teaching has a way of taking over your time and I do miss my gap year. Maybe I will have another one sometime soon. So this month ...

I have been enjoying walking to school (some days!) and watching the trees change and winter come in. 

36 beautiful and amazingly creative calligrammes made by my year 8 class. That is as many pupils in one class than were in the whole of year 8 in my last school!  We have been studying Apollinaire's calligrammes, fabulous surrealist poems in the shape of the object they describe, I wondered if it would be too difficult but as always my students totally over deliver!  They write beautiful words and illustrated them perfectly.  Very proud.

2 children at school and enjoying their learning this year. This month we have been mostly reading and learning our tables.  

Thousands of poppies at the Tower of London, a truly inspiring sight and I was really impressed that the children took it in and talked so intelligently about Remembrance Day.  I was very proud when w got his british  legion wristband and said he was going to look at it and think about the soldiers who died.