I’m just going to leave this here. I’m struggling to write a blog about the informal musings of my week when there is so much devastation going on in the world. So my husbands got Covid and I’ve had a manically busy week at work, so what?! Just seems a little hollow when there is… Read More Week 22…

Gosh it’s been the most beautifully brilliant and incredibly surreal week. I’ll leave you with a very special quote again today. The blog has been written, but will be published on Monday… This was given to me by a fabulous parent mid pandemic. It’s on my shelving unit and I sometimes find myself standing, with… Read More ‘Sometimes I think you believe in me more than I do’ said the boy.’ ‘You’ll catch up’ said the horse.

I was hoping to get to a blog. Even up until last night when unusually, I hadn’t started for the week I was still hoping to get there. I had lots in my brain tumbling around waiting to find the right way out… Then when I got home at 1810 last night I had to… Read More A quote this week…

I feel like I’ve written about the Coronacoaster many times before. The weird adrenalin rush of involuntarily being forced to ‘ride’ a roller coaster prolonged for well, nearly 2 years now! The highs and lows, ups and downs, connecting bits, scary bits, slow bits…sections that fill you with anticipation then come to not much; sections… Read More Week 18 – 28.01.22. Coronacoaster – the ride isn’t over yet.

When looking for the end of the quote to start this weeks blog, I didn’t for one moment think that there would be so many possible ending options! I was heading down the route of…’make lemonade’ but the ones around online are far more creative, interesting and amusing. I also want to be clear from… Read More 21.01.22 When life gives you lemons…

I’ve realised that a major part of doing a weekly blog is ‘proactively’ seeking a specific opportunity to reflect on events of the previous week. To actually find time to give serious thought and consideration to what has happened between each time of writing. Reflection…not just time out, not just thinking on the drive home,… Read More Reflection…

Welcome to my second blog of the week! It feels really good to be back openly reflecting on events of the first week back in 2022. For those who used to be regular readers, Friday afternoons will still continue to be my ‘publish a post time’…it’s just that on Tuesday this week, the first day… Read More It’s so good to be back! (blogging and at school)

Picture the scene…(as my busy brained #smiler would say when he’s talking me though his latest dream, thought or imaginative idea…)it’s the morning of the first day back to school after the Christmas break and I’m awake at 0443. Wide awake. Not just up for an increasingly common night time comfort break(!) but awake awake.… Read More Happy New Year…As the white noise gets louder.

I’ve run out of time for a blog entry this week. We’ve been so focussed on our testing programme in preparation for the full return of all our pupils that I’ve had no time to dedicate to a blog… it’s all been about testing. Our ATS (Asymptomatic Test Site) welcomed our class of 2021 whose… Read More Week 22 or week 9 #Lockdown3… Testing, Testing, Testing

So we have a date for the full return to school of all our pupils and I am cautiously, utterly delighted. Very much so. But in the rush to return to a sense of normality I am also cautious that we retain some (lots?) of the brilliant initiatives and ideas that we have been forced… Read More Week 21 or week 8 #Lockdown3 ‘In the rush to get back to normal, use this time to decide which parts of normal are worth rushing back to.’