My memory of this time of year is having to choose between the streaming eyes of hayfever and medication which made me fall asleep. I chose hayfever.
Nowadays the medication is much better.
However, what has not changed for the pupils is that this is the most beautiful time of the year, intersecting with some of the most exciting years of their lives and here they are stuck in an exam room.
Sorry, an assessment room.
And yet, most pupils don't really wrestle with a subject until they approach exam revision. Maybe having that hard-won feeling of mastery over an area of knowledge makes it all worthwhile?
Certainly when I asked that question in class last week, one pupil said yes.
And for a class full of teenagers that is a high percentage of positive responses.
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