Assemblies are over, lessons are finished and everyone is starting to ease out of school life and into a state of half-sleeping-half-rolling-around-doing-nothing for the foreseeable future (by foreseeable future I mean the next couple of weeks...I don’t expect everyone to hibernate during their free time). I don’t mean summer holidays, unfortunately we have to wait another 107 days for that sweet release (not that anyone’s counting), no I'm talking about Summer break’s less eagerly anticipated, but still highly enjoyed, cousin Easter break.

If I mention Easter to you a multitude of things may be brought to your mind; the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ (if you’re religious), the Easter bunny, chocolate, chocolate, feeling sick after eating an extortionate amount of aforementioned chocolate, a time to be close to family and...revision for exams? “No Emily you are not allowed to have an Easter egg hunt with your sister, you’re supposed to be knee deep in revision!” *drowns self in chocolate given to self by distant aunties because that will definitely help self pass all exams*

When did Easter stop being about celebrating and start being about revising? “The true meaning of Christmas is being lost,” is something we seem to hear every year and I propose Easter is going the same way with an avalanche of not only commercialization, but also stress and anxiety brought about by teenagers taking exams. This is why, I personally, will be boycotting all exams which require me to revise over Easter.

(haha only joking my mum would 100% kill me)

Emily Binns - Gumley House Convent School