I seem to be blessed with some fantastic pupils this year. There will always be a few 'characters' that make life hard work, but for the most part my classes seem plain nice.

Yesterday one of my year nines stopped back at the end of the lesson to show me a card trick. Impressively I have no idea how he did it as normally pupils' magic tricks are as transparent as glass. He then asked when his next maths lesson was and was genuinely disappointed to find out it wasn't until Thursday.

My year sevens this morning were asking for more homework, because apparently it's fun. I love it when my pupils haven't had all their enthusiasm and desire to learn crushed out of them.

My other year seven class were absolutely magic this afternoon. They were so enthusiastic and were enjoying their work. This then makes me happy and I enjoy teaching them more, which in turn means I'm teaching them better, so they enjoy it even more. Lessons like that just fly by.

This really is a great job sometimes.