It seems at the moment that, just like in Macbeth, someone upset the natural order of things this year (ie, the 10 week term) and now things are not quite what they seem. Fair is foul and foul is fair. The timetable is in a state of total disarray. I have only 20 periods with my year 11's in the next 7 weeks (the equivalent of 4 weeks of classes) and I think this is more lessons than either of my Year 12 classes have. You would not think that such a small thing as a change in the number of weeks in terms could really make a difference to the teaching schedule but it has. The whole of your timing and lesson plans and number of lessons is based on a ten week term. And it is not like we will have a 20 week semester and therefore be all caught up by the end of semester- that would be too sensible. Instead, we have an 18 week first semester and a 22 week second semester. Oh the wisdom of the powers that be! So we have the right number of weeks in our year, but at the wrong end of the year, when the students (year 11 and 12 ) have already left. Anyway, a short rant - dont really have time for a long one - too much work to catch up on!