I’m really keen for my form to win the inter-form challenge. Any opportunity to score more points must be taken. There is currently a poetry competition at the school and every poem entered by a pupil in my form will earn us a point. I told them that they could enter more than one each if they liked and that the poems didn’t need to be too long either.

Unfortunately they’ve taken things a little more to heart than I thought they would. Today I was handed several copies of the same poem that one boy had printed off and got his friends to put their names at the bottom of. Okay, technically they submitted six poems but I get the feelings we get points for the number of unique entries.

I’m creating monsters. I might lay off the push for success for a bit.