The warm weather recently is fantastic but it does make for awfully hot classrooms. The same kids who were moaning about it being too cold and wanting to keep their coats on are now complaining that it's too hot to work. Yet strangely the kids who were happy to make do with a jumper when it actually was cold, and so you'd figure are generally warmer than colder, are staying quiet and content. Most peculiar.
The situation isn't helped by the fact that the school heating is on this week to keep the year nines warm who are doing their SATs in the cooler sports hall. Unfortunately that means the heating has to be on everywhere. My room is a furnace.
I took my year sevens out into the school car park this afternoon for a lesson on symmetry, we were looking at hub caps, to escape the heat and get some sun. I got some odd looks from other staff walking, especially as I was getting them to take pictures on their phones. An assistant head came to see what was going on as I think the lesson might have been outside his comfort zone. He actually asked 'and you're allowing them to use their phones?' It'd be a mighty show of defiance from the class to walk out with phones in hand. And having made it that far it be weird for them to congregate in the car park taking pictures of wheels. I cheerfully explained what we were doing and he went away looking somewhere inbetween confused and bemused. Admittedly it was a risky lesson but it was with a class I could trust my life with.
And it's always nice to get some fresh air.
2008-05-08 @ 19:04