Top set pupils are strange.

Take one girl from my year sevens. I'd handed out a sheet for homework where the pupils had to do twenty of the fifty questions. She'd forgotten which ones they were supposed to do. What do you suppose she did about it? Many pupils would simply not bother to do anything and hope to get out of it, or maybe do a few token questions, or perhaps even ask which to do. But no, she chose to do all 50 of them! It took up fully three sides in her exercise book - it must have taken ages.

Crazy girl - only in a top set year seven class could that possibly happen.

The moment every school child dreads happened to one of my Year Sevens today. It was inevitable someone would say it and sure enough they did. Someone called me 'Dad'.

Bless 'em. Cue much laughter from the other pupils and I myself struggling not to giggle. When the pupil in question was born I'd have only been ten and still thought girls were evil. It's nice to know that they see me as a grown up though, I'm not sure anyone else does.