Prefab sprout.
Today marks the end of an era in my teaching life. The prefabs I've called home for the last ten years are being removed. In recent times my prefab has become 'the Leaky Cauldron', the Irish weather having finally penetrated the many layers of skin this old, temporary building has. There have been the inevitable four-legged visitors too as the prefabs became a tourist attraction. But generally this place, while resembling STALAG 17 from the outside, has in fact been the place where I grew up as a teacher, had the best laughs, and enjoyed awesome relationships with different year groups and teachers. There is something about a block of prefabs. You are a little closer to nature, the weather and your fellow man. You can make it a little bit of yourself too. I added a coffee machine initially to beat the mid-afternoon slump and soon found myself making coffee for soaked or frozen students in Winter. I decorated as best I could with students work and my own posters and as tim...