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OK, I don’t know why I bothered with the whole ‘Year 7 – 11’ thing because Sixth Form is so, so much cooler in every single way. Here’s why!

• Every teacher you have is great. They save them up for Sixth Form and tell them to be friendlier too
• You get your own common room to eat in, instead of perching uncomfortably on the benches outside.
• You also get your own room by the library, with its own exclusive computers, and no uniformed young people in sight!
• Just in case one wasn’t enough, you get multiple teachers for each subject. In the case of History – three!
• You don’t have to wait outside for the bell in the morning – you can go straight in and avoid the crush. That is going to become very useful in the winter.

Lessons are great too. New electronic registration is, ur, having a few teething problems but looks fancy. And I’ve already installed and customised Firefox on my user account (my special extra-privileges account I should add)… because if nothing else, tabbed browsing is vital for research.

Now I’m off – I’ve got a week to read Wise Children…

And so tomorrow it starts, officially. For the first time in ages I’ll be going to bed at a reasonable hour, getting up and then staying up. That’ll be odd.

I’m excited though! Doing nothing for too long gets annoying… and I actually want to be back in the system of tasks to complete by deadlines, work to get done, timetables to follow. And no uniform to wear while doing it I saw the Year 7s (who get a first day on their own) coming out of school today – so small! We were never like that! We were big and grown up…

Nic tells me that in his school, they’ve implemented a new system of ‘mixed age tutor groups’ – and not even the Sixth Formers are safe. That sounds utterly bizarre and my deepest sympathy to anyone having to work in that.