Yesterday was school afternoon - and I had a great time (again)! It was parents' evening yesterday, so we spent the first 20 minutes or so sorting out trays, putting away work, tidying the classroom etc - I also did a bit of filing for the teacher, putting reports into the file which has a section for each child.

Then I took the children to get their coats and we walked up to the IT suite at the Juniors. They had done a survey of what pets everyone had, and what type of houses everyone lived in, and they had to use a sort of children's version of excel to put in the statistics and make a graph. I helped out a bit with that, then after break did some library skills with the children, using their funky computer system for checking in and out books.

The last part of the day was the best by far - I got to read a story to the whole class! I love reading stories to children, and it's one of my fondest memories from my early work experience when I was 15/16. I read them a book by Nick Butterworth (no relation) and they were all so wonderfully behaved - even the ones who normally wander around/talk whilst the teacher is talking! I guess it's because I'm someone different to normal, but I really enjoyed it, and I think they did too.

At the end the teacher was talking to them about who would be teaching them for the next 2 days (she works part time) and one of the girls turned to me and said "can't you teach us tomorrow?" - Awwww! I had to explain to her I hadn't passed my 'teaching exams' yet, but maybe I'd teach them in a few years.

They're a wonderful bunch - I live for Tuesday afternoons!!