The Season Of The Summer Scribes
At the conclusion of each school year, I feel compelled to write, urging teachers to quarantine a little of their well deserved holidays break time for some writing. As we rapidly approach the end of another challenging year, my message remains unerringly simple. If you are a teacher who writes, it is easier to present as a writer who teaches. Will you be embracing the challenge of keeping your own writer’s notebooks in 2022? Well, that notebook will greatly benefit from some early feeding and the summer presents as a potential feast… I am aware of the level of exhaustion that exists in schools at year’s end. It is probably more so following the unerring demands of these Covid years. The need to tie up a multitude of loose ends prior to school closing for the summer holidays remains. The final days of school seem to take the longest time of all the many school weeks. School becomes the epicentre of fatigue for both students and staff. I am als...