Proof I am here, anyway sort of.

What a lovely photo so a big thank you to my colleague who is now based at Talas school She took this picture when we had visitors from the States.

The children in the picture are the year 2 children and for the most part they are chatty, but otherwise well behaved. Year zero though happily sang two songs, I started reading the book with them that they helped make, which I thought would appeal to them as they could see oh that's the bit I did, and half of them stayed with it, but yes the other half went awol again and they really hammer each other. This time I did not even try and stop them, I just tried to carry on reading and then do the next activity to see if it brought them back, as it is not fair on those trying to work. I know getting them to behave is THE most important thing as children need to know that they are safe in class, but getting me organised enough and authoritative enough is proving a huge challenge. I have asked their regular teacher to try and teach me a bit of Russian, it is their second language but may help a bit if I can say things like move back etc.  Everything is fine if she stays in the room, but ... Interestingly even though the kids fingers were in the piano they did not get crushed though so I need to investigate the design to see if it is safer than I thought.  One boy did sit on the piano to stop the others though, so these kids are pretty smart. Anyway of course once settled they loved making the elephants as you can see by their finished products.