First day back at school 29.05.12

So, the kids are finally back after a long month off. It was nice to see all of their happy smiley faces in morning assembly, and I must say I have missed a lot of them.
The first day back at school when a new term begins, is usually spent organizing classrooms and giving out text books to the children. The principal Riette, therefore asked me to supervise her Grade 7 registered class all day as she had other work to attend to.

Grade 7 is the highest class in primary level and the biggest class in the school. 47 children in total, and last year when they were Grade 6, I did happen to like them a lot. However I do not like them as Grade 7's!
The first task of the day was to remove all furniture from the classroom, completed by the boys, and for the girls to go in and clean it.
Once this was done, we then moved all the tables and chairs back and started arranging them in a new seating order. A complicated task when 47 13 year olds are telling you that no the tables don't go that way and thinking that they know better than you.

Once that little squabble was over and the children and finally obeyed by my boy-girl seating arrangement; there was the lengthy process of numbering all desks, chairs and text books with the students unique number so  that any damaged materials can be traced back to the student.

All was then well until a fight broke out between 2 boys in the class. Frans and Disney. The rest of the class were a BIG help. Not. All standing around and watching. And as usual with classroom fights, I had to throw myself into the middle to break them both up.
I in turn found myself struggling to separate them, especially Frans, a very large, strong boy. Luckily at that moment though the other boys seemed to awaken and come to my aid and helped me assist both boys to the principals office.

And when the drama was done. School was over. And I had the rest of the afternoon to prepare myself for when the lessons begin the following day.