My face blanched to a beyond pale, Julian Assange shade of Equadorian Embassy Ivory this afternoon when two of my boy-ling students casuall...

                                       It was the last day of school yesterday and I sat in the staffroom ten minutes before the first bell,...

I’m sure some kids think their teachers are a species of alien life form. Whenever I run into one of the little munchkins in the shopping...

Containing twenty-six exuberant, animated ten year olds in a smallish classroom every day whilst coercing them into the partaking of drear...

“Where did this come from?” I wondered out loud, pulling a box of Camembert out of my bag this morning after ferreting around for my read...

                                                                      It’s that time of year when teachers at our school are required t...

It’s Mudder’s Day tomorrow in Australia! We spent yesterday afternoon in the classroom busily creating loving tributes to Mum… well, my s...

Miss Waddlington-Dandy, Summerdayes Girl’s College for Eloquent Young Ladies, Articulate Road, Toff Hill. Dear Miss Waddlington-Dandy, I a...

A to Z April Challenge As I walked my class up the road to the high school today for our ANZAC day assembly, one of my “bubblier” ...

  For the fourth year in a row Pinky’s class has been allocated the role of staging the annual Easter play where we re-enact Jesus’ journe...

                                                                      Before I begin, please forgive me for my croaky voice today but I s...

                                           I have a collection of elaborate and contrived facial expressions I use in my classroom which a...

The logistics of organising 700 kids into freestyle, backstroke and breast stroke races, booking an adequate amount of buses, begging for ...

                                  I was on playground duty the other day and a rather candid Grade One-er approached me with her head cock...

      Image Credit                                   I read in a newspaper recently that General Practitioners are in the firing li...

Today was our second day back at school before the Rug Rat Army infiltrates the grounds wearing their spanking new shoes and wrestling wi...