Schools back! However the teachers may not be. While all students should now have been at school for at least a week, many of teachers may still be waking up from their holiday slumber and preparing themselves for the new challenges facing them for 2015.
Sitting around tables in the staffroom, the sudden realisation that the holidays are over is finally sinking in. No more 9am coffees with friends. No more gym sessions after an 8 hour sleep (lets face it, no more 8 hour sleep ins!) and that feeling of being as light and happy as a butterfly will soon be over.
A colleague of mine, Rob from the Arts departments, shares his story about his family holiday to their beach home. I sit there looking at the chocolate box. Ah the sweet chocolate box. I wonder if I will be able to hold out and keep my goal of cutting out chocolate and soft drink binges? But then it hits me.
My first week so far has saw 20 eager parents waiting outside the classroom door, on day one. All wanting to talk to me about their child while I try and supervise 20 students running, crying and just staring around their new habitat. My once neat desk now has photocopied alphabet activities, shape sorting sheets and assessments which need filing, all creating a mini Mt Everest. Don't even ask me where I put keys. They are there somewhere.
It's now the last day of the week. Brand new photocopiers are jammed, whiteboard markers are mysteriously disappearing (They are probably under the paperwork somewhere), The lolly jar that was full is now empty and the instant coffee is near depleted in the staffroom. We have survived, the state of our survival however is another story.
The students have left for the weekend and teachers are not far behind, ready for hibernation. I know I will be checking emails and screaming at the clock to slow down while I eat my chocolate to get me through this adventure.
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