End of Term Report

Well Caoilfhionn had quite the first term at Lowewood. Despite her resolve to be very well behaved she ended up being the naughtiest girl in the school with the least amount of housepoints at the end of term. How did that happen?

On the plus side she felt comfortable at Lowewood from the start. Despite Mr S's concerns that her convent education might have left her ill prepared for life at Lowewood, she found kindred spirits in the other girls, who were all so much fun and really made her first term an excellent one.

Although her name proved to be a severe trial with much abuse of it ensuing. Teachers refused to acknowledge how it was pronounced and some of her fellow pupils made up their own versions of it. Cellophane being the least palatable of these! She therefore spent much of the term wearily correcting the various pronunciations, with the plaintive cry of 'It's KEEL-IN' becoming a recurring phrase.

An inability to shut up when in trouble was Caoilfhionn's main problem and certainly something she was encouraged to improve on. It all started going wrong in Assembly during the uniform inspection. To her outrage she lost house points due to what was deemed inappropriate ear rings (despite having the neatest uniform in the whole school). 5 points wasn't too terrible really but vocalising said outrage led to her losing 15 more points. Not a good start.

Throwing apples at other pupils during lunch-time led to the loss of more points. Even though she was merely just trying to get some netball practice in!

So by the time classes started properly she was determined to stop the slide. And her pink slipping (being sent to see one of the housemasters for punishment) was due to an out of term incident that unluckily Mr S came to hear of. A sound spanking, slippering, tawsing and caning certainly made her think twice about participating in any future drunken wrestling activities. And really she was lucky she didn't get extra for trying to tell Mr B it was a new form of pilates that she was trying out.

She was therefore quite well behaved in all the other classes finding them both interesting and challenging. And due to her prior convent education excelled at PSE, knowing exactly what urges boys were likely to have and how a good girl should deal with them.

But art was her undoing. Never a subject she was going to like or be good at she wasn't inclined to focus on the task at hand. Meaning her repeated drawing of phallic objects earned her a strapping in front of the class and more losing of points.

At netball she came into her own, with her team thrashing the opposition in the first game and a respectable draw in the second. Even if her own team mates were afraid of her, she was pleased with her performance.

Unfortunately the loss of so many points so early on proved irredeemable and at -25 she found herself the worst girl in the school, much to her fellow Byron housemate Natalie's disgust, having managed a record breaking +85!

So dispatched to detention with Mr S she comforted herself with the fact she was in good company joined by both the Deputy Head Girl and Games Captain. Another spanking and hard tawsing (24) followed by 13 with the cane firmly impressed on her the need to keep her mouth shut and out of trouble.

However, she really felt she'd settled at Lowewood when as one the school corrected Mr S's pronunciation of her name in final assembly:

'It's KEE-LIN sir!'