Not such an 'easy day'.

So...I was back at the Stanthorpe school today and it looked like a pretty easy day since I only really had them on my own until 11.00 after which they had Computers, P.E and the Arts and the real class teacher normally has non- contact time.Being the 'nice guy' I am I reluctantly pointed out that I would be getting paid for nothing for most of the day and asked if they wanted me to help somewhere else during that time and I was told that perhaps I could go with them to 'The Arts' and help out. I didn't press them on the other times.At first I thought Titty N wasn't going to turn up but like a bad penny he did.....late. Z promised me he was going to be good today and bless him he was. The only other worry in that class is Bunny (not his real name) who was fine yesterday but I have seen him at his worst on other days in the school.The morning went well up to Morning Tea and while they were out I nipped over to the Staff loo. Coming out I was greeted by the Secretary..."Bad news I'm afraid, there is no ritalin for Bunny. I have rung Mum but she is at the Police station reporting a theft and can't find the prescription so he will slowly go off the rails."'Marvellous!" I thought.After Morning tea we had computers with Mr C. Bunny was already bouncing about in the line and the rest of the 'easy day' was not looking good. I took the class up there. I had experienced this lesson before and was not looking forward to it again. Mr C arrived and told us to wait outside until he had set out all the laptops on the tables then we were allowed in and they all had to sit at a laptop (there were 19 children aged 6 and 7).They had to log in with a certain ID and password which was written up on the board. Then they had to pop in their pendrives and navigate to their previous work folder. Of course there were some that could do that but many who could not. I went round helping them sign in and find their work. One laptop wouldn't switch on and another just had a blue screen and it was pretty much chaos.By the time we were all set up and ready to begin the lesson 20 minutes had passed. They were working on a powerpoint project and they had to add another slide and then minimise it, navigate to another folder, choose a picture, copy it, paste it back on their new powerpoint slide and write a sentence under the picture.But....there were two different kinds of laptops in use and some were working on small laptops and some were working on big laptops and Mr C had to show two different ways to navigate to the correct folder. I was rushing about like a loon trying to get everyone to the right place and some computers were logging off while we were waiting for others to catch up and I was having to re-sign them in again.Finally we all got to the folder with the pictures in..."Click on the folder that says 'Digital Technologies'" said Mr C. (Yes, it was child friendly!)Suddenly Mr C said,"Hey! Where has that folder gone? It was there a minute ago.""You don't think someone has deleted it by accident?" I said helpfully.He want pale. "I hope not."He could not find it anywhere."Well, thanks a bunch whoever deleted that!" He said exasperated."We can't do the picture now so we will just have to go back and do the sentence. I rushed about again getting the children back to the right page....remember, each of these tasks I was pretty much repeating 19 times to try and help them keep up.Finally we, well I, got the sentence done and the lesson was over and they had to save their work, remove their pendrives and leave for P.E.  Amazingly Bunny was perfectly well behaved throughout the whole lesson and I only had to have words with Titty.The P.E teacher was already outside waiting for them and I was looking forwards to a quiet 45 minutes in a darkened room alone until Mr C tapped me on the shoulder and said"You wouldn't mind helping me with the next class would you?"So I had another 45 minutes of the same computer hell to endure before lunch.After lunch it was 'The Arts'. There was a supply teacher taking that because the real teacher was in town, with some of the school children, at the Eisteddfod. I told her about the Bunny situation and suggested I come along to help which she was grateful of.We walked over to 'The Arts' room and she said "Today we are going to do 'Drama'."I felt I had already had enough of it but there was nothing I could do about that.In the end it was more a return to 'Digital Technologies' as they were making scenes and models and creating characters from playdough and taking pictures of them with Ipads to make little animations. They were basically playing for an hour and they loved it.The lesson over ran and I could see the cleaner hovering outside ready to come in. I was willing 'The Arts' teacher to end the lesson so we could get back to class before hometime and finally she did though I had to march a class of hyped up children and an over excited Bunny past rows of waiting parents.The bell rang and I released them back into the wild with a huge sigh of relief.