Recently enjoyed Jimmy Carr's Before and Laughter. Part self-help book, part autobiography. Entertaining listen.

It's all a bit surreal when you really think about just how little they've tried to protect schools isn't it? Fingers crossed cases drop dramatically all over soon and that'll help us in school.

Just checking in to see how people qre getting on. All going well in our school so far. No confirmed cases but we have a good few kids self-isolating/being testeddueto cases in the community. No sign of the CO2 monitors we were promised either,but that's unsurprising. Allin all happy to be back and ...

First day down, no students in today, just staff. Great to see everyone. Looking forward to meeting our new first years and welcoming back our students over the next few days. Hope everyone else got on well

Good luck and enjoy, History Queen. Lovely to be heading back into work you obviously really enjoy. The school management should model its covid response on Sweden's response, which at first I thought was mad but now looks saner. I loved history in school, if that is your subject. Looking forward t...

Hope the settling back in goes smoothly for you History Queen. I always loved this time of year when kids were going back to school but this year my eldest is moving away to uni so the nerves will be gone worrying about him 😒. I was hoping that the secondary kids could have some sort of normality t...

My kid is looking forward to going into 1st Class, he's getting a new teacher having had the same lovely teacher for Junior/Senior Infants, and all that came with that, with disruptions in both school years so far. Doesn't seem to have phased him in the slightest, he's reading by himself now, and h...

It's that time of year again, students and teachers all dreading/looking forward to their first day back. Personally I'm looking forward to it, have two lovely 6th year groups in particular that I'm looking forward to working with. Really hoping that the school year is uninterrupted this year and th...

Really glad to see this site. Frequent user of Boards and really disappointed to see what has become of it. Well done to all involved. Can we have an Education forum here as opposed to a Teaching/Lecturing one so that a broader range of views could be heard, rather thann becoming an echo chamber, wi...

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