The age of innocence...

This morning it felt like a life time had past since I stepped in to a classroom by the afternoon it felt like I had never left the classroom. The kids have grown up so much its amazing and freakishly scary at the same time.

4 weeks before when we were doing the highway man the boys couldn't even bring themselves to say the word 'kiss'. Today during ICT we used a program (which I recommended and the school have got on trail :D) called kar2ouche. The software provides everything you need to write a story using a storyboard. The task was to come up with a storyboard about a myth using just 6 screen shots.

The boys managed to get the characters to kiss......They actually had a knight and a princess embracing with their lips locked.

I was just shocked so shocked I can't even remember what I said to them. Whatever it was that I said must have made them feel abit embarrassed because when I came around again that scene had disappeared and was replaced with the knight having a battle with a fiery dragon. Much more normal for them. For awhile I thought I had imagined it. There’s no way these same boys who point blank refused to say the word 'kiss' could possibly be showing their characters snogging each others face off. Their innocence couldn't disappear so easily. I decided to believe that.

I believed they were still innocent until the end of the day when they had to copy out the meanings of the spellings they had to learn using dictionaries. The boys soon discovered that on page 661 there was a word which began with s and ended wit x. This really made me just stand there. Completely gob smacked. I opened my mouth to say something along the lines of 'Stop being silly, and grow up' when a flash back of my A2 English language class came to mind. At the age of 18 (twice the age of what these kids are) I quite distinctly remember studying old english and along with the rest of the class looking through the etymology for rude words in old english.

That memory caused an irremovable smile of my face. These boys will most likely be doing the same thing with dictionaries for the rest of their schooling....guess some jokes never get old and innocence doesn’t last as long as I thought it did.