However, what we got was a one week system, and what initially was an issue of concern was now a good thing instead of a concerning thing.. At my previous school, any timetable was kept to - for about two weeks a year! This timetable was firm, and even had which teachers and the room numbers. I copied the room numbers but not the teachers. Who needed to know that when going to your next lesson anyway?
We
were then introduced to our learning leaders. I was soon to learn
that all they did was come come into form time and check our planners
or take us for reading when our tutors wanted to talk about us to the
form, without us. They had a different tie to us and I thought this
part was cool.
The Learning
Leaders took us on mini-tours of the school before taking us back to
the form-room. When I say mini-tour, I mean, our group went round out
of the T-block, down around the library (not inside, just the
outside! And we weren't even told!), under an arch, and into the
science block. We only stayed downstairs S-block as well, not going
upstairs. As the only thing I ever touched downstairs was the
Homework club (all being learning mentors and IL and stuff like that)
it wasn't particularly helpful to know that!
Mini-tour over, we
went back to the form-room, but soon it was time for break. I
dispelled my energy by myself in a corner of the field. All of the
bigger students had come, now, and they too were having break. I
looked around at the field and surveyed it, but there was nothing
there for my old (and weird, but imaginative) game. It was all spaced
too far apart, and there weren't enough bushes anyway. I decided to
put that particular game away, never to come back.
After Break, we
were due to go to the lesson timetabled, which was Science. However,
I was unsure of the way. I distinctly remembered an arch, only I
could not see an arch. Maybe I had made that bit up? I panicked
slightly.
And then, a girl
from my form, Alice, joined me, and we went together from there. We went in
one direction, and asked a teacher's help. Well, she did all the
asking. I'd seen the science block while she was showing the map of
the school in her planner to the teacher. I could also see the arch
from here, and was relieved. At least I hadn't made that bit up. I
said nothing about knowing this, though, and finally we made our way
to Science. I never actually got lost after that one time.
We were by no
means the latest. It was a large group of boys who were. The teacher
was more annoyed with those boys than she'd been with us, speaking
somewhat sympathetically to us, and far less so, in fact,
impatiently, to the gang of boys. The lesson progressed after that.
After the hour of
Science, it was lunchtime. Alice and I went to the canteen (which wasn't
that far from the Science block). We both had packed lunches (and
lunch cards that we were given in Form), but I bought a bottle of
water from there as well.
Keep an eye out for Part 3 - which has a good tip hidden in it.
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