Just June...

There wasn't a huge amount on the calendar for June, yet it has been so busy that I can barely think straight. July is looking even blanker better though: we break up on the 5th!

Yet, in school terms, it is one of the busiest months of the year.

Reports. (Looong ones.).

Meetings.

Activity week - taking the children away on a five day residential trip to Shropshire has to be one of the most tiring weeks of my year. Good fun, but late nights and early mornings and constant activity all day.

Concerts, sports day...

The busiest time of the year for the school garden: watering, weeding, harvesting strawberries and early potatoes, planting pumpkins...

Creating an amazing Tudor Rose floral display in part of the school garden with, in turn, 140 children. The school - part of Elizabeth College - celebrated 450 years with a day where we all dressed up in Elizabethan costume and took part in Elizabethan/Tudor activities. I was a Tudor gardener...

To top it all off, I am moving classrooms. More importantly, my belongings are moving cupboards. To a cupboard approximately one fifth of the size of my present one.

Meeting new colleagues in preparation for a class move in September.

Beginning to prepare for school inspection next....March.

Late evenings and sleep-short nights. Early mornings and bright dawns. Not enough sunshine and warmth. (Will summer ever come?)

Now it's July. Holidays. Sigh...