High School Muse: course work and building work take over

But until that day comes my life and soul has been enveloped in an avalanche of coursework. You can't quite help but notice an underlying atmosphere of shell-shock among the sixth form at the moment, which is not helpful when we have to navigate ourselves around a busy building site each day.

I am referring to the dramatic New Build that is taking place throughout this year at Becky High. Our head teacher, Owain Johns, is very enthusiatic about this and keen for me to include it in my blog, and now I am going to give it my full attention, although this is mainly due to the painfully long trek the sixth form now has to endure to pass it by and reach the sanctuary of the sixth form Common Room.

Leadbitter, the builders, have moved in and despite a delay that displayed just how impatient the younger years can be. the digging has now started. Due to the existence of several very rare, very shy (and I'm pretty sure very spotty) newts that reside in our pond, the builders had to embark on a very long conservation project so and while the newts were there, so was the soil. Nonetheless, the daisy filled field with the huge conker tree I loved so much is now becoming a hole in the ground and a new canteen, new sixth form area and umpteen classrooms will hopefully emerge.

My enthusiastic mention of the Open Evening in the last blog clearly had its effect, and on October 7, armed only with a small Year 7 student, an army of sixth formers showed around a record number of inquiring parents and scared daughters. It was not the easiest of tasks; many of my peers did five tours in the evening, and some had to try to get round the whole school in ten minutes (completely impossible). Despite trying to avoid the biology room at all costs for fear of the pig's eye dissections that were engrossing an unhealthy amount of people, I got the impression that a good time was had by all, and that's the important thing.

Aside from this, with any luck by the next blog my social life will have emerged from its coursework clad shell and I may even have had some progress on University applications - unlikely, it's true, but there's always hope. So until then I wish you farewell and expect to see me relating my tales in Hello! Any day now...

Hannah is a final year A level student who is hoping to gain a place at Edinburgh College of Art to study costume design. Through her blog Hannah shares her experiences as she prepares for her A levels, applies to universities, and waits for her results.