It's our term 2 study-break/holiday.
Marking and holidays are a dodgy combo for teachers. While others prefer to delay their marking, my general time management philosophy centres on the touch-it-once idea.
Which means I can only start feeling like I'm on holiday when the marking is done. Given I had marking for all five-year levels/classes, that meant the first few days were devoted to clearing the decks.
Luckily Jacky had work in the midst of this, so I had a day to mark my Year 13 writing folios.
All the marking is now done - so I can enjoy the break with just prep for the start of the term to come.
Having re-read all that - it sounds more pompous and sanctimonious than I wanted it to. Yay for me!
I do stand by that touch-it-only-once idea though, so let's cling to that shall we.
