As part of my induction programme I have to go into another secondary school. So today I went to the Catholic school just down the road. It was alright enough I suppose, I saw an interesting science lesson, the kids there were just like the kids anywhere else.

I did find them to be slightly derogatory about my own school though, refering to it as 'the community school'. Which I guess is technically true, but it does make it sound a little backward somehow, as though it's a place for delinquents. And perhaps the kids agreed because when the teacher in the afternoon introduced me to the class and where I was from they said: 'unlucky'.

Curiously some of the kids I spoke to knew some of the pupils I teach, including one asking me if I knew Bobby Bobbison from year eight. Seeing as he's a pain in the neck I diplomatically denied having ever heard of him.