What happened to the last two months?

Whew! Whiteboard Witch is a shadow of her former self. Ofsted decided to give us their new brand of torture known as the 20 day window - they call up, and you know they could be in any time in the next 20 school days. So that meant 4 weeks of Ofsted-style lesson planning, and with a full timetable that's a huge amount of time spent writing up details that a good teacher usually has in her head ready to use as and when needed. Painful! Not to mention the MOUNTAINS of photocopied lesson plans, resources etc; I reckon we annihilated a small rain forest in that time period.

And guess when they came? Days 18 and 19, one of which happened to be my birthday. Rotten luck! To add to the irony, they didn't observe a single minute of my teaching, so 4 weeks of adrenaline-fuelled angst was all for nothing. It did, however, result in my immune system packing up for a while, so I have spent the weeks since Ofsted coughing and clawing at my eczema. Charming!

On the bright side, the school did well in the inspection, so the headteacher likes us all a bit more at present. And it is only 12 sleeps til Santa! Yay!