Change and Chapters

Well, the news to tell has been told.

The fact has been let out that I will be leaving my current school at the end of this school year to begin another one in the city this August. And the reason - MUCH reduced travel times, and change. I have been at my current school for 6 (six!) years, which by my standards is a really long time. Although I have enjoyed the long time at my present school and learnt loads from being there for so long, a change is a good thing to do, to see new things going on and new perspectives on what I do. But the big thing is that, as it is closer to where I live, I could save up to 7 hours a week in travel. That's loads! I could do so much in that time...

As I finished telling The Sabre-Tooth Tigers (as my class are known) that I was leaving, there was a slight pause and then suddenly the Red Arrows boomed past overhead, low to the ground. I told the Sabres that they were doing a special fly past for me. I'm very sure they didn't believe me, but they cheered and clapped anyway.

I shall miss the school, it's staff and pupils, the garden and the Mini-Garden Hippo, the wildlife (being in a remote mobile allows loads of wildlife to be seen - I started the morning watching 3 green woodpeckers and a squirrel!) and lots of other things which happen in the school. However, the story doesn't end here. It is just beginning to write a new chapter....

Yet even before I think about the next school, we still have a World War II day tomorrow, followed by a sports day next week and......