Lovely new school...eight classrooms and various other rooms...eleven full time teachers and sundry other assistants etc...
Actually functioning this week:
one printer
one Internet outlet (not connected to each other)
plugs around school, intermittent, fuses blowing right left and centre
phones- two plug ins (neither cordless handset operational)
Was the temper frayed? No it was SHREDDED! In tatters! And that was the Principal, the secretary's temper was in the next county and her sanity was across the water in Wales, still running for its life...
Workmen- in and out all week either turning off essential services or trying to repair them around 200 inquisitive children, not the most efficient process. By Friday the knocking sound on the boiler was so bad the plumbers turned off water mains in fear of the system blowing up...
If there was anything else it pales to insignificance in comparison to the above!
On the plus side there is a swan nesting on the watershed by the school (the river runs right outside the building). Two hundred children are anxiously watching over the swan from the classroom windows, were there ever such eager god-parents-in-waiting?? Its just lovely for them to watch the wildlife at such close quarters and good for them to be so involved.
Final Verdict? Fab week...NOT!
1 comment:
Oh dear, and there was I jealous of your new school!!! We got a "bird cam"some years ago, it was fab Too late (probably) for this year's nest, but might be an idea for next year, then the kids can see what happens.
(Oh, definitely not for this year - we had ours on Internet connection, oooops, sorry!)
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