As the end of the year for senior students nears, a few things happen. Some students get a little silly and start doing daft things like sticking my whiteboard eraser and markers to the ceiling in my classroom. It's a pretty harmless prank (not dissimilar to the 'put rubber gloves on everything, including stretching one over the clock' prank pulled in a colleague's class) EXCEPT that the evil children stole MY sellotape to do it, used half a roll, and left the remainder dumped in a box at the back of the class where it took me two sellotapeless days to find.
I also become very, very busy organising senior prizegiving. My school looooves the prizegivings, with hundreds of cups and prizes and engraved medals and pens and books and certificates. It's elaborate and time consuming and at times stressful.
It's also lovely to see students who've done well being recognised for their achievements :-) It's a highly satisfying project to work on. And this year the Y13 Barbershop Quartet (3 of whom I taught in the same Y9 English class) performed 'What a Wonderful World' - and they were awesome.
Prizegiving - a lot of work but definitely worthwhile!
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