I had a brilliant day at work today.  It was my current group of students’ last day of class.  We played lots of games:  pass the parcel(!), Brainstorm and a home made board game.  At lunchtime we had a meal paid for by the college to bid the students farewell.  There was lots of gorgeous Bengali food – lamb and chicken curry, rice, lovely breads and fruit – YUM!  The students were all so lovely and saying they would miss me, and I almost wanted to cry over the fact they won’t be coming back after Easter! 

After lunch we, (me and fellow teachers) spent the afternoon having a clear out, as Ofsted are coming after the holidays (gulp).  My classroom now has lots of new posters, and all the crap that had been accumulating for years (literally) has been removed (old handouts, ex-students’ work, a broken OHP, a massive display board etc etc).

It was so lovely to do some real physical work for once.  It was also good to work with my colleagues, as I am too often by myself at the clinic when I am SLT-ing or when I am teaching (other than the students, of course!)

I did feel a bit bad about the amount of stuff that the college threw away (including tons of old computer stuff).  I would have preferred it all to be recycled/ given away, but short of hiring a van and driving it all to some kind recycling facility myself, there was not much I could do about it.

I did manage to rescue a sack – a whole sack! – of clothes that students have left behind over the years, and I am going to take it to a charity shop or freecycle it.  At least that won’t end up in landfill.  Shame all the clothes were really unfashionable and extra large, or I could perhaps have solved my current clothing crisis