Fits and starts
Jan. 17th, 2010 10:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mumsisdaughterThe call came on Tuesday evening--we'll be in work at 9am (not the usual 8.30) tomorrow, children in at 10 so Gav drove me to work on cleared roads until we got to the top of The Slope of Doom. Very tricky driving but he's an excellent driver and made it seem unremarkable. All dressed up like Nanook of the North, entered the warm (thank goodness) building, wished everyone a happy belated New Year then spent an hour preparing, wondering how many children would show.
Come 10 o'clock, 21 of my 22 charges turned up, eager to break the monotony of time off school. Many parents commented on the pathways through the estate still being treacherous. Snow began again so the decision was made to have lunch in school at 11.30 rather than 12.10, send the children home between 1 and 1.30pm and close the school to children on Thursday. The last few were collected about 2. First day back, class chatted and worked for 2 hours total and I was exhausted!
Phoned for Gav to pick me up, he not best pleased but came straight away, declaring that the dreaded slope was 'fine if you know how to drive, even going uphill'. Rest of the staff trudged up the slippery slope to their cars, which they had parked at the top.
Thursday, all staff in school to spend the day on anything that needed doing around the school. Productive.
Friday, the first full day since Dec 18th. Only 15 of my 22 showed up--I could get used to that. Did soooo much that day and had lots of fun. Took the bus home then walked in the road to reach our house because the pavements still icy.
Learned a child had died elsewhere in UK, slipping on ice on her way to school. I cannot begin to imagine the grief.
Rain has cleared the remaining snow and ice away.
Come 10 o'clock, 21 of my 22 charges turned up, eager to break the monotony of time off school. Many parents commented on the pathways through the estate still being treacherous. Snow began again so the decision was made to have lunch in school at 11.30 rather than 12.10, send the children home between 1 and 1.30pm and close the school to children on Thursday. The last few were collected about 2. First day back, class chatted and worked for 2 hours total and I was exhausted!
Phoned for Gav to pick me up, he not best pleased but came straight away, declaring that the dreaded slope was 'fine if you know how to drive, even going uphill'. Rest of the staff trudged up the slippery slope to their cars, which they had parked at the top.
Thursday, all staff in school to spend the day on anything that needed doing around the school. Productive.
Friday, the first full day since Dec 18th. Only 15 of my 22 showed up--I could get used to that. Did soooo much that day and had lots of fun. Took the bus home then walked in the road to reach our house because the pavements still icy.
Learned a child had died elsewhere in UK, slipping on ice on her way to school. I cannot begin to imagine the grief.
Rain has cleared the remaining snow and ice away.
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Date: 2010-01-17 04:02 pm (UTC)We talked a little about this in an earlier post of yours, about snow removal and such. I can understand that it wouldn't be in place since snow like this is nto the norm there, but it seems so odd to have everything screech to a halt for such a long time. Do they even sell rock salt in bags there?
The lighter class load sounds like it was a good thing, though!