Another day, another hard one. One of my pupils has been excluded for the next two weeks for attacking another pupil...it's heartbreaking to see what is essentially a good kid make life even harder for themself. It makes you feel really powerless, even though I'm doing all that I can feasibly do to make life in my classroom comfortable for them. School life in Glasgow and school life in Brevig Mission are literally at polar opposites by the sound of things!

Still, Christamas is just around the corner- time to dig out those moth eaten copies of 'A Christmas Carol' and teach the kids some proper literature, methinks. And don't even mention the Christmas shopping...I have a pile of exam scripts waiting to be corrected before I can even think of that.