I adore my Latin lover
Now that the pandemic is behind us, we are back to normal with our extra-curricular school visits. This means an occasional ‘crash day’, when the timetable is scrapped and educational activities are put into place. My Year-8 tutor group were sent off to the Eden Project. Alas, as an English teacher, I wasn’t allowed to accompany them. We English teachers are important, see. Or that was the message we were meant to take home, although I’m not sure how that made the teachers sent to Eden feel. In any event, mocks are coming up for Year 11 and so they were given a full day of revision techniques – words that make my heart sink into my boots. I was to teach the same lesson four times to four different sets of students. At least I couldn’t claim it was too arduous a task. The point was not to give...
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