Thickets of wildest guesswork
Normally I wouldn’t post any pictures of people from school, but I think this group will forgive me, just the once. Thank you, Jen, for snapping this picture of my last lesson with Year 10.
So yep. School’s out. There is a lot going on in my head. There are a lot of notes I keep reading. A ton of photos I keep flipping through (both old prints from when I started at the school and I swore I’d be all-film-for-all-time to about three hundred shots (many from Chesney and Marianne!) from the last three days in iPhoto). And thanks to what the BBC can only term a deluge of rain this morning, I do have to sneak back to my classroom on Monday to collect my boxes and pass over a few last bits of paperwork. But it’s not my classroom from now on, and of course I can be super excited about what’s to come, but also…well, you know. I probably don’t have to explain where my head and heart have been today if I tell you that one person in the photo above sang a beautiful Sarah McLachlan song at our end of school assembly today and another fronted a band who dedicated their fabulous Queen number to Jen and I.
When I went through my teacher training, I remember a lecture about professional distance. It specifically mentioned that teachers need to be very careful not to hug their students, in case anything was misunderstood. Let me tell you I broke that rule a lot today, and I’m pretty sure we were all on the same page, understanding wise. I will say it over and over again: kids are fabulous people.
So now what…yes, into the thickets of wildest guesswork, indeed. I’m going to take the weekend to do a bit of mild mourning and a fair chunk of reading. After having the last book ruined by someone who wasn’t being particularly fabulous at that moment, I am going to switch off most of ye olde internet until I’ve finished absorbing the last installment of prophecies, squibs and St Mungo’s Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries. I expect to be back to reality on Monday, just in time to start my first entirely self-directed working week.
For any of you fabulous people who might drop by: please keep in touch. I want to hear all about your fabulous adventures more many fabulous years to come. I owe you all so much. Thank you for putting up with me and inspiring me to keep learning too.
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