Milton Junior School, Newport

Year 3 & 5

I should point out that I have repeat work here so I may add to this post in the near future. My first school in Wales, thank god for that. Weston was great and Bristol was work but the travel was a big bugger.
Anyway, this is the first school in which I met the head teacher. This seems very odd to me as in New Zealand you always meet the headteacher as a relief teacher. Great school coming up on 50 years, and now they've been blessed with my presence. The staff room was an inviting place not because of the decour but because of the warm Welsh staff ( just don't mention Andy Haden in 1978 at Cardiff Arms Park, I did and I baerly made it out alive)
The kids are so respectful and although the constant chirping of sir can become annoying you have to admire their respect for teachers. Milton Junior School is situated in Ringland which is a rough estate (one of the most notorious in Newport, a city notorious anyway), but you'd not know it at the school. One teacher there described it to me as the diamond in the rough and that will do me.