Friday

Training day today so no students in school. Tedious staff meeting but fairly short.

Have done all I feel I can re H. A child with whom she is friendly is moving classes anyway and will now move into H's class. The head of year is going to talk to H's class about how isolated she feels. The class teacher is now apparently angry with me because I raised the issues with the head of year, but I will just have to deal with that.

I saw the head teacher for our weekly "review" of how I am feeling. He asked; I told him I was very tired and finding H's unhappiness hard. He commented that he didn't know what more school could to support me, so I told him I wasn't looking for school to do any more, just telling him how I was feeling as he had asked me! He did at one point say that the only thing to consider was whether to take more "drastic steps" which I take to mean either going part time or leaving teaching, but that isn't going to happen any time soon. It felt a bit threatening but there is nothing he can do to get rid of me, so there can be no real threat.

No news on the timetable, but it looks possible that I will be taking on a new year group for English. That would be quite a pleasant change, given that all the lesson plans are written.

Soon to go off to the gym; have prewarned my trainer that i would like to do some yoga; hopefully that will help me to feel more settled. I need to make sure I do some more nurturing activities this weekend to build myself up.