Oenone Crossley-Holland: I know what little monsters await me in September; they are contemplating the dark, unknown horizon

Oenone Crossley-Holland: "Is there anyone," I asked my year 7s, "who would feel confident in running our philosophy session themselves?"

Oenone Crossley-Holland: A handful of my year 11s found me and asked if I'd 'go through' Catcher in the Rye with them; their exam was the following morning

Oenone Crossley-Holland, our New Girl columnist, has to decide after two years on the Teach First programme whether to remain in teaching. She looks up her old classmates to see what they have decided

Oenone Crossley Holland: Today I spent my Sunday walking across 10 bridges with 28 year 7 students and a small party of staff

Oenone Crossley-Holland: I've been waiting for the summer term since the beginning of this year

Oenone Crossley-Holland: The countdown has begun. After more than five terms with my GCSE set, there are only 19 teaching hours left before the first of their English exams. The only one who seems to be panicking is me.

Oenone Crossley-Holland: Until last Thursday, I'd never taken out a group of students on a school trip

Oenone Crossley-Holland: The challenge of speaking two languages is a pertinent issue for well over half of my students

Oenone Crossley-Holland: "Leave. Your work should not be making you cry."

Oenone Crossley-Holland: In the classroom, as a general rule, things that the students are raucously squawking about, I don't find funny

Kate Herbert: When I started writing this column seven years ago, I was a 30-year-old starting a PGCE in an inner-city school, pretty terrified, and with little idea of what my new future would hold.

Oenone Crossley-Holland: This is bad teaching. Really bad

Kate Herbert: I'm not sure how many schools have used St Paul's new programme of events for primary children, but it's great

Oenone Crossley-Holland: On Tuesday, during lesson four, I realised I'd been bitten.

Kate Herbert: I'm not really one for joyfully embracing the new year.

Oenone Crossley-Holland: One of my prize cards this year is from another naughty cherub. In her card she asks me, "Please will you mention me in your column? Lol"

On hearing that Gordon Brown would be dropping by, a student exclaimed: "Oh Miss, he's always here." By Oenone Crossley-Holland

Kate Herbert on hygiene and Henry VIII

Oenone Crossley-Holland: Year 11 do a presentation on the 'global village'