Off to
Stoke Breune tomorrow - Canal Museum and Narrow Boat trip.
Day out my class and the class above.
I'm looking forward to it, just hope we have no travel sick children on the coach.
I might embarrass myself by retching along with them...
Oh - we had an exciting day today.
We were just settling down for some numeracy work on the carpet and Mr Headteacher stuck his head round the door and said, "The alarm is about to go off. It's not a drill, okay." Now in hindsight, we were the nearest classroom to the staffroom, which had just filled with smoke. He was trying to warn us to evacuate immediately, without frightening the children.
What we
understood him to say was the alarm is about to go off, but you can ignore it as we're not actually having a fire drill.
Common sense meant we got moving as soon as we saw the class next door filing out.
It was an electrical fault in the staffroom dishwasher. A bit of smoke and nothing else. But it meant we were out of school for about half an hour, and we got to hear two fire engines wailing up the Aylesbury Road towards us (we were on the field and couldn't see them when they arrived).
We pulled together some school spirit and sang some Harvest Festival songs and a couple of the more upbeat ones about God. Tiger was pretty unperturbed, but I made sure I was there to answer his questions in a logical manner. In fact I'm more concerned about how he fared this afternoon as they were doing Taste as part of Exploring Our Senses. He might not have been up for the blindfolded taste test, given that he is still very fussy about what he eats and definitely does not let other people put surprises in his mouth! But I explained this to the teacher and TA covering the session and they assured me they would allow him to choose how far he participated.
No doubt I'll go in tomorrow and he will have sailed through it all with no problems, making me look neurotic
