What I will miss

After a year working in a prep school, I will miss...

• Waking the girls up and being greeted by that warm sleepy eyed look.
• Singing Happy Birthday at breakfast time
• The endless anecdotes accompnied by "Miss Beach, Miss Beach"
• Piles of folded school clothes on the ends of beds
• Shoe check in the morning
• Book bags littering the edges of the playground
• The sound of wrong notes from familiar songs played carefully on the piano
• Saying hi to the children around school
• Reception hugs and sticky fingers
• "Matilda night" ( when I read the book to a dorm of twelve girls)
• Four year old tears
• Four year old grins
• Staff room biscuits
• Films in the girls common room
• Talking with the children about their day at supper.
• Pupils gathered around the new team sheets
• Watching them build dens in the wood
• Listening to readers
• The tempromental photocopier
• The parade of girls in the shower room complete with dressing gowns and shower caps.
• The mass exodus from said bathroom when there is a spider in there.
• Prayers before bed
• Saying "night" at lights out and hearing a chorus of "night night Miss Beach" from each bed.

Gosh, another year down. Another new adventure awaits!