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Date: 16 May 2005 11:38:54
Last ten minutes of my non-contact lesson and the computer room has been invaded by a terrifying horde of Year Sixes. Anyone who has had any contact with year six after their SATs tests are over will know only too well what a scary prospect this is. And I was working soooo well, too. Still, it gives me the excuse to sit here blogging instead of finishing off the paperwork I was concentrating on.
I had a trial of conscience this weekend. Tiddles is doing his SATs this week. Strangely, our Year Sevens did theirs last week. I don't know which school is in the wrong (and I hope any examining bodies reading this can turn a blind eye) but I know it put me in the unenviable position of knowing precisely what questions Tiddles will be facing in his maths tests this week.... a real question of conscience when he suddenly, out of the blue, asked me to help him do some revision for it yesterday! I was a good girl, though. I took him through a past paper, one which does have some questions which are similar and some which are totally unrelated, and just told him that lots of my pupils made mistakes by not reading the questions properly. Doubtless he won't do too well, which is only to be expected because his knowledge of maths is slim enough at the best of times, let alone when he's under pressure. I hope I managed to reassure him that I don't particularly mind how he does.
Miss Lisa, I should mention that I am confident Tiddles will make it through his week away without any major explosions, although I'm less sure about the migraines. The bit I'm dreading is when he finally arrives home after a week of late nights and the tension of keeping his cool while in company. It's when he gets home and feels safe that there's the chance all hell will break loose. Never mind - we'll don our cycle helmets and asbestos underwear and brave the foe with equanimity :D
The new couch is wonderful... and seriously purple. Can't wait to try it out - though I did sit on it for a while and dream of having someone offer to massage my back! Sadly the Smudgelets are keen to volunteer to be the first to test the couch but somewhat less keen to volunteer to do the massaging!