End of Term

Tomorrow's the big day. For the rest of the school it's the end of term. For the support staff who work a 52 week contract, it's two weeks without the students and teachers. For those of us at the top of the support staff food chain, it's financial year end.

As the teaching assistants, administrators and student services staff go off for the break, they forget those of us who work like people in the 'real' world. Those of us who work 37 hours a week and only (I use the word loosely) get 27 days holiday a year. Easter is always a big event for us, because we have either got financial year end looming or we're in the middle of it, or we've just completed it. Either way, we're frazzled......completely.

So this year, financial year end is the last day of term, which means a relaxing two weeks ahead of ordering and resourcing using the new budget.

Now tell me the logic in this. A school academic year runs September to August. A school finanicial year runs April to March - no logic whatsoever.

Still, there'll be plent of pub lunches next week to keep us going and NO TEACHERS!!! Yippee!