Some kids are just plain dozy. A year seven left his calculator behind at the end of his lesson today. It's fair enough really as everyone forgets things from time to time (I've forgotten to do my breaktime duty for the past three weeks. My bad). I passed it onto his form tutor to give back to him tomorrow, but at the end of the day he came to see me. I greet him and tell him his calculators with his form tutor now and she'll let him have it in registration.

'Oh,' he says, 'I left my calculator aswell?'

It turns out he'd come up because he'd left his PE kit in the room nextdoor. He's a nice enough lad but I've yet to see any evidence he's living on the same planet as the rest of us.