A Day in the Life of Jess Bolton Year 9

For me, the school day starts with an entertaining bus journey. Everyone on the bus is chatting and laughing, despite the early start no one ever fails to crack a smile.

The bus pulls into school and everyone rushes off to find friends, hand in homework and then go to assembly or mentor meeting. After being told to stop chatting we all quieten down and head to the Chapel, where an assembly is given by a teacher. On a morning when it's mentor meetings we all go to our mentor rooms, where everyone gets on and discusses any issues we may have and share our views with others. Then slightly half-heartily, we go to lessons, but it's not long until the lessons start flowing and we're all participating and enjoying ourselves. By the end of the second lesson, stomachs are growling and everyone is in need of a break, so we go to the dining room where delicious toast, hot beverages and a place to sit and talk is available. However, you have to get there quick or the toast, being rather popular will be all gone!

Once we've got that well earned break out of our system, its back to lessons. We all buckle down for another hour and a half then return to the dining room for lunch. The hot and cold queues generally have roughly the same amount of people in, except on days when its meatballs and Friday's when we have chips!!

After eating, we wander over to the tennis courts where you can always hear laughing, and people gossiping at the speed of light! You can play football, netball, maybe talk a little; it's just a good chance to blow off some steam before the final hour and a half of lessons.

Break ends and its back to the classrooms for more work. 3 o'clock comes and it's time for E3. E3 is a period at the end of the day where we do an extra curricular activity of our choice, be it sport, homework or something of a creative nature, it's always a nice end to the day. After E3, the locker room is bustling, everyone reading to go home after an eventful, progressive and tiring day. After enthusiastic goodbyes, even though they're just until tomorrow, we register and then I hop on the bus back home. Once you're home its time to whip out your pencil case again and do your homework. The homework's are fine as long as you manage your time properly. As soon as that's done, its time to put your feet up and get yourself ready for the next day, as all the fun will start again tomorrow!

I myself left Kingswood, but returned after only two terms of being away. I think the reasons I came back were because I missed the grounds and the building. I was used to having a lot of freedom within the grounds, fields to sit on in the summer, woods to do cross-country in, just stuff you take for granted really, but you notice it's gone when you attend school in a town on a busy street. I missed the building, even though when I first came to Kingswood I thought my parents had brought me to Hogwarts, you grow to appreciate the building and its fascinating history. So moving to a building where the most part of it was a new building was like Harry Potter moving to Grange Hill, it just didn't feel right.

The other thing I missed was the closeness between both the pupils and the teachers. There may only be a handful of pupils in each year, but to be honest I quite like it that way because everything's on a more personal level, whereas at a school with hundreds of pupils you may get a good education but that's as far as it goes. There isn't much closeness between people.

My school has got a personality and a likeable characteristic.