Ofsted visit!

Ofsted have been in school this week, Monday and Tuesday. As you can imagine, just what I need when I have 2 weeks of school to go before half term and maternity leave!!! The phonecall came last Wednesday, and although PANIC was rife in school, I managed to just tidy my room, plan as usual and not get too stressed. Didn't seem worth it to be truthful!! Some poeple came into school on Saturday morning, which seemed beyond the call of duty to me!!
Anyway, they came and observed part of my maths lesson on Monday morning, which didn't go particularly well, due to an oversight on my part!! But that was it! No return visit..... So I think I got away lightly!! They are feeding back to senior management and no doubt we shall hear about it later this week or early next week. I have to say I don't expect the report to be glowing! From most of the discussions in staff room, the inspectors have had more negative to say than positive. I am happy to be proved wrong though!!!
Anyway, I have my PPA time (Planning, Preperation and Assessment, also known as a break from my class!!) this afternoon, and a midwife's appointment tomorrow afternoon, so am looking forward to a slightly more relaxed 24 hours than the previous 24! It'll be nice to just drift through lessons again tomorrow and for the rest of the week, instead of watching up the corridoor incase they walk in!!

New Home for Sheba

Further to last weeks post about having to take Sheba to the dogs home, wanted to let you know that she is now rehomed!! When I took her on Saturday last week they told me they thought she would have a new home before the end of the weekend, and be there by this weekend. They were ever so lovely, taking lots of details, and being nice to and about her! She was of course good as gold, giddy as ever!! I phoned in the week, as I'd not heard from them. I was slightly worried she'd been naughty and nobody wanted her!! But she was gone!! A friend of the girl I spoke to had taken her home the day before!! Which is fantastic news. I feel much better now, knowing that she's gone to a new home where they will love her and look after her. The dogs trust told me that she'd be signed up for obediance classes and agility classes too, as she's a collie!!! I can just imagine her! She'll have a whale of a time!!

6 weird things about Hazel....or as many as I can think of this early in the morning!!

Have been meaning to do this for a few days now... not sure I understand the whole tagging thing, but guess I just send a link to a few people who might do the same....
It's only 8.15 in the morning, am at school wasting a few minutes, so please allow me to start off slowly... may only manage a couple of things, although with some help from Steve I'm sure I can make it up to 6 later!!
1) I love eating custard cold.... now I'm not actually convinced this one is weird, but Steve certainly thinks it is. I like custard as it comes out of the tin, or carton. NOT proper custard that's cooled down, that's all skanky.... just good old fashioned processed custard!!
2) I hate driving with the sun visor down in the car, even when it's sunny!!! It's just in the way, distracting.... don't know if that's just me or not. It really does have to be blinding me for me to have the visor down. Don't mind so much as a passenger, just driving really!!
3) I hate ironing. Now, I don't actually think this is so weird... I just don't see the appeal... but some people iron everything and would therefore think it very weird that I go out of my way to avoid ironing!! Just ask Steve! We have a basket with ironing in, and some of the things in there we've forgotten we own!! Mostly, things get washed and dried and hung up, you never know, the creases might drop out!!
I'm going to have to give up, brain struggling to think about anything, and how weird I am is proving a challenge!! Will continue later, or tomorrow, or when I remember, with help from my husband I'm sure!! He could probably make the last up to about 12 for me never mind 6!!

Goodbye our little doggie....

We are having to say goodbye to our dog, Sheba. She is going to the Dogs Trust home in Leeds to find a new family to love her. She is a star, but we're just not in enough for her, and she's so very giddy...... We love her lots and lots, but with new baby on the way we just can't have her anymore. We tried to find someone to have her, but much as lots of people love her, no-one can look after her..... It's the best thing for her, and she will no doubt find a new family really really soon.

The rather bizarre picture is the dog under the bed! She always slides right under and kips, this is actually quite a lot of her showing... sometimes it's just the tip of her tail!!!

We have photos!!

As promised, photo's!! We have put together and installed the cot, and also put in a baby changer. We're not sure whether there will be room for that, but will have a think and see!!! The photo of the lovely curtains doesn't really show the true niceness of them!! They are really really nice, come round and have a nosy!!

Getting there...

We have carpet!! And curtains!!! And a lovely new light pendant and lightshade!!!! No batteries in camera, really was going to pictures this evening!! Will have to rummage for or buy some suitable batteries tomorrow! Room looks like a proper room now!! Ready for the lovely cot the Greenies have given us, and all the lovely things the baby is inheriting!! It's all starting to feel very real now!! Steve commented to me last night that I needed to start getting things together for a hospital bag!! How scarey is that!! Need to find a bag too!! How big will it need to be?! I'm guessing taht I need to gather together the appropriate things, before I know how big the bag will need to be!! Going to find a suitable list in a book, or online, or both, to see what I'm meant to take with me.... 9 weeks and 3 days till due date. I'm really hoping baby doesn't decide to make an early appearence... although I know she probably won't come when she's mean to!!
Had a very nice evening with an old friend of Steve's and her family tonight, from his days on Pais. 7 years since we saw them we think... very plesant and hopefully we'll see lots more of them.
Pictures soon, work tomorrow... not good!!

Happy New Year!!

Happy New Year! Welcome to 2007! We pray God's blessing on you and yours this year. Our year will be very different from the one that's just passed I'm sure. With only 10 weeks to go until our baby's due, I expect within a short time life will be very different!! It's all very exciting, if rather scary!!!
Pictures of baby's room to follow when I find the computer.... it's mostly painted, we have a curtain rail, a blind, curtains and lampshade ready to go up......