What makes the end of the year so challenging?

Every year I think to myself, I’m not going to get caught feeling tired and stressed at the end of the year.

I start reports early, finish off assessment as quickly as possible. Yet somehow still feel myself running on empty with just over three weeks to go.

Then I figured it out.

No matter how many of my admin ‘must dos’ I finish, there will always be more to do.The classroom still needs to tick over and kids need to be engaged with their learning until the very end.

Perhaps the inevitable rush to try and do it all…