Symbiosis interruptus

Today, DH came to my school and delivered a great interactive lecture on nuclear power. The pupils were well behaved for the most part but I still feel exhasuted by the experience of being in charge of the entire class of year 11s. This lovely family/professional symbiosis was interrupted by the year 6 teacher beckoning me out of the theatre to try to tear me a new one because she thought I was responsible for all the toing and froing with sets and ladders etc. from the play which had its last performance the night before. I was in there during the lunch hour when I was in the theatre trying to get my laptop set up in my only free 15 minutes of the entire day because I was on duty. The juniors, however are back in lessons by then and were using the theatre for a music lesson, including my DS1. Anyway, I had one of those classic regret moments when she asked rhetirically whether I had people waltzing through my lessons. I didn't think of a good response till later that indeed I did during musical season when for two weeks straight I teach around fully made up and costumed characters walking right across the front of my classroom so they can get to the stage right entrance! We all have to be flexible. Anyway, she apologised after school because she had finally processed the message that I had only been in there to sort out my laptop as previously arranged with her. I am not sure, however, if she is stilled livid with the English teacher and his set breaking... All in a day's work I supposed. Just emotional stress I didn't need.

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