"Have you still not heard anything from the police yet?" Nikki asked Linda in the staff room.
"No, they've still not found him" Linda said drinking her cup of tea
"How long has is been?" Christine said coming over
"He's been gone over 2 months now, I dread to think what state he's in" Linda said sighing
"Well we just have to hope" Michael said putting his hand on Linda's shoulder "He really does need some help"
"Yeah.." Linda smiled putting her hand on Michael's
"Right, time for the morning meeting" Michael said "Linda, Tom...Where's Sian?"
"I don't know" Tom said
"Right what did you drag us out of form for?" Maddi asked Sian and Jez
"We only decided last night and we forgot to tell you this morning" Jez smiled
"What do you need to tell us?" Zac asked
"Last night at our 20 week scan we found out the sex of the baby" Sian smiled
"Really! Go on what is it!" Maddi said excitedly
"A girl!" Jez said sharing her excitement
"And we decided on a name this morning" Sian smiled
"What?" Maddi asked
"Lily!" Sian smiled
"Aw, thats so cute!" Maddi said
"Lily Rose Diamond" Jez said putting his hand on Sian's stomach which had got much bigger.
"Were is Sian" Michael said once they were in his office "I told her about the meeting"
"Let's just start" Tom said
"So I've been looking at the records and ever since we've got this new intake the grades in my department have gone down and the number of pupils needing pastoral care have gone up" Linda said
"Well is the pastoral care improving the results?" Michael asked
"Not really, to be honest I just think they haven't been given a good education there whole life" Linda said
"She's right, there beyond teaching" Tom said "I think we need to set up a scheme to help them, they struggle with basic things its like teaching GCSE's to a toddler, nothing goes in"
"Come on they can't be that bad" Michael said
"Oh they are.." Linda laughed "I think Tom's right we should set up a scheme, they have a joint lesson of drama and english a week, but maybe we should do more than one it seems to help"
"Okay good, any other idea's?" Michael asked
"Sorry I'm late!" Sian said coming in
Linda smiled "We were just on about the new intake"
"Right" Sian smiled "Their really struggling in science"
"It's not just english then.." Michael said
"Right today were going to be going down to drama" Linda said to her group "Come on"
Once they had got to drama Linda smiled at Matt "Thanks for giving up your free"
"I don't mind helping" he smiled "So what are we doing today"
"Romeo and Juliet" Linda smiled
"Great!" Matt smiled "I love Romeo and Juliet"
"I don't understand it, it's all in posh language!" Rhiannon said
"Posh language.." Matt laughed
"It's Shakespeare!" Linda said "Right so to help you understand it more I was us to try our best to change the play into modern day language so we will be focusing on the first scene today, ask me or Mr Wilding if there's words you don't understand"
"And then we can act the scene out at the end of the lesson!" Matt said "So get in to groups of about 5 or 6"
At the end of the lesson when some groups had acted it out Sam, one of the new intake, came over to Linda "I get it more now miss, they all like fighting with each other don't they, I think it's a bit stupid though because their still fighting over something that happened ages ago"
"Great Sam! Now you understand it more were going to work on how to answer the questions" Linda smiled
Linda walked back to her office and sat down, glad that her lower set seemed to be making some more progress. Linda listened as she was sure she could hear sobbing, she looked near the filing cabinet and saw someone behind it. She screamed
"Leon what are you doing here?" Linda asked
"I need, I need to do what my dad wants" He said getting up
"Leon calm down, I'm going to ring Michael.." Linda said
"No!" Leon said getting a gun out of his pocket
"Where did you get that from" Linda said shocked
"I'm just doing what my dad wants!" Leon shouted
"Right I'm phoning Michael I can't be alone with you when your like this!" Linda said
"No!" Leon screamed shooting the phone
