'Why did you make my friend cry? She was really upset at dinner', asked one of my year tens at the start of Friday afternoon's lesson.

Well, it wasn't like I did on purpose. Here's the rundown:

On Monday's lesson crying girl makes sheep noises so I send her out, whilst I don't have an explicit rule about pupils not making farmyard animal noises, I'd expect a year ten to have a good idea of how to talk like a human being.

In previous lesson's she's been unable to stop giggling and has generally been a pain-in-the-neck, which makes it strange that she should have complained about my teaching, playing the 'I want to learn card' when she's one of the pupils who has stopped everyone else from doing so.

So on Friday I moved her away from her friends and she sulked and 'went on strike' until I pointed out that by not doing the work she was only harming herself. To which she moaned and sighed and whinged and whined. It's hard to feel too sorry for her really.