False start.

The Child didn’t start today, coming this week though apparently so I’m standing by. More info has filtered through. He swears a lot and ‘lashes out’ at other children. Brilliant. My main worry is that Trey (the naughty one in my class…the one who’s manageably naughty) will latch on to him like a kid with a new toy and will wind him up and then step back to watch the carnage. Should be fun.

We’re deep into rehearsing for the Harvest Festival next week, so we’ve done a few song practices, lots of actions for leaves falling down etc. I know, falling leaves have nothing to do with harvest but that’s primary education for you. Digging potatoes does though, and you can guess the dynamic actions for that one. I’ve changed the actions the children had learnt for picking tomatoes that they did with another teacher. She’d failed to spot that it looked exactly like a hundred children making a lunge for a pare of tits and giving them a good mashing. And no, that doesn’t mean I’ve just got a dirty mind, it really DID look filthy. Even a nun would have blushed.

I’ll let you know when The Child starts and how we get on together.