Our new head is causing split opinions amongst the staff. Some other maths teachers are spitting feathers at everything she says but I'm quite enjoying the change of leadership at the school. The old head knew exactly how bad a teacher I was, whereas the new one doesn't have a clue.

She was walking round school last week poking her nose into lessons and getting a flavour for the school. I was fortunate in that when she came into my lesson the kids were well behaved and I was doing some good work on mini-whiteboards with my year nines. It's a good job she wasn't there ten minutes ealier when they were trashing the place.

Today our head of department had a meeting with her. It was more to do with his role in the school and ideas about the direction it should take but he also talked about the members of his department. The new head had been very impressed with what little she'd seen of my lesson.

Woop! Woop! It's nice that senior management have noticed me doing soemthing and aren't using the words: incompetent, inadequate or abysmal. I wonder how long that will last.