A Little Rain.

We had a short shower yesterday evening and although it has stayed dry today and remarkably warm there are a lot more rain clouds in the sky. 

I've been at school all day, working with the Year 2 children in the morning and back to the Year 1 children in the afternoon. Our morning started with maths and then we went on the coach down to the Leisure Centre for their swimming lessons. Luckily I don't have to teach the swimming lessons, though I have had to do so on supply work, just get them there, changed and waiting poolside for their instructors. This year we have been allocated 2 changing rooms unlike last year when we had 30 children changing in quite a small space. My colleague asked if I wanted to be with the girls or the boys and though I didn't really mind either way I chose the girls. I had forgotten about swimming hats which the girls are supposed to wear. Some of them were quite hard to get on! And a couple of girls have just had their ears pierced so although earrings are not allowed we put plasters over them and tucked them under their hats. I sat and kept an eye on the very beginner group as a number of them were children with poor attention spans ie rather lively in the water. I'm so glad that I checked with my colleague about one child with specific behavioural problems and was told he was very confident. Otherwise I may well have jumped into the pool myself when I looked at the row of children standing in the water and he was just a shape on the bottom of the pool - it was the shallow end. I went on alert but not panic mode and he popped up immediately, big sigh of relief from me.

Staff meeting after school followed by a visit to the Co-Op and home in the evening light.

It's a little hard to tell but there are 3 hills in the photo the final ones being moorland covered with browning bracken.  And on the other side is the sea, the Bristol Channel to be exact.