It's time to begin.....

CRANKY40

It's well worth not having to suffer going out with him if it gets your dad paid back. I'm still sniggering at the poster. My sister's first husband was very like him....a grudge against the world. He's a contract HGV driver and so many places won't use him because of the rants and ravings. For the last 6 months that they lived together my sister thought he was having an affair but didn't dare get her hopes up. When we found out that he did indeed have a girlfriend and he finally left it was like the sun had come out on her world. 

My sister still gets on fine with all of his relatives - they're not keen on him either and it's my sister that goes to the family parties, weddings, funerals etc, not him. 

Kakiste

That's my takeaway point from it. 

The poster is just ridiculous, I think I was supposed to say 'ooooh well you've told them there!' whereas it's just..... silly. They're a school management, they're not going to care if a TA puts up a narky poster, it just makes him look idiotic. 

In an ideal world my dad will hopefully get paid back at the beginning of July, then about 10 days later I'll casually mention that I've got my school work night out on the 23rd. It's a free bar covered by the school so all I have to do is budget for the group taxi we're getting back to town at the end- actually just realised I can use my £20 that i'd put aside for the Friday meal into a pot to cover that. He gets funny about me going out, (shock horror there) but I'm going to wait until it's can't be made conditional on anything when I say that I'm going. (because I absolutely am) 

CRANKY40

Good for you. 

rugbymadfamily

Just been catching up. Great news on the bikes, excellent find! Camping sounds like a lot of fun so hope you get to go for a bit of a break. And great thinking on the taxi for the work night out, definitely a deserved night off so make sure you go 😀 

Kakiste

Done a shed load of marking today in preparation for next week's English deep dive. Mentioned to the three English classes I have next Wed that I will require them to be little angels in return for excessive bribery. Basically when they're on form then they are wonderful. When they are bad they are a total nightmare. Had to physically break up 2 fights in one of the groups yesterday. But I'm sure bribery, good relationships and great teaching will win out. Now just have Monday/Tuesday to sort the paperwork side of things! (totally my weakness)

Had a lovely enrichment afternoon today, ended up supporting in 'nails' which was run by my lovely TA who used to manage a fancy spa  and another teacher so have had my nails done. Hard work Nice little work perk there. Also useful time as the new year 9 girl was there so got to know her a bit better. 

Kakiste

So the audit went really well. Managed to get all the paperwork sorted in time, few small bits to modify however job of a few hours so I'll get on that next week.

Lesson observation went really really well. The two classes i was seen with all behaved like little angels. (Including the previously illiterate year 9 lad who is now reading and writing at a year 1 level *proud teaching moment* He was an absolute gem- head down in his work, showing off his reading to the observer ) 

Head caught me at end of day assembly to say she'd been raving about the lessons she'd been in. 

Hillariously my year 9 class she didn't come into all lost their minds and that lesson was spent doing no work and settling them back down so they didn't either abscond or try and fight other students, so very thankful she skipped that one! 
 
In other news I'm currently sat on my sofa watching Aquaman; daughter is ill- has a headcold and had two lateral flow tests (negative) but school have said she needed a negative test from a drive in centre before they'd let her back. So i'm off with her today. Got a nice lunch planned from food group stuff I picked up yesterday 

WinterWarrior

Awww 🥰 , what a gorgeous cat. 

CRANKY40

I'm surprised the cat isn't with your daughter - ours loves anyone with a higher than usual temperature. We thought she was being sympathetic at first but then we realised that it was just cat central heating that she was interested in. 

Kakiste

Nah we've got a younger one (10 months) who is my daughter's shadow- but is currently eating bugs in the back garden- can just about hear her miowing as she is chasing them! 

 The one pictured is my 10 year old cat- she's super chill and really affectionate. Spends most of her time trying to sit on me or sitting within a few feet. 

CRANKY40

Awww - she's very pretty. Ours is 12 and a total diva but utterly devoted to my son so I let her off her bad behaviour most of the time.