The interviews for my jobshare are today. I spoke to Candice yesterday and she said there were 3 candidates. One of them has got to be good enough, right? I bloody hope so. If not then I don't know what I'll do.  I can't go back full time. I love my little Lentil too much to leave him full time.... I wouldn't go back at all if I could help it, but ( Read more... )

I've been telling the student teachers for weeks that they need to take a risk in their lesson plans... mostly they have been teaching very teacher led (boring) lessons, which is fine, they've only been in school for 4 weeks, but its a good school and now they have more confidence they should be able to try some more creative ideas and not have to ( Read more... )

Well, here I am. End of two weeks holidays and I have done no school work. I don't really know why I kid myself that it will get done. Anyways, TheBoy has gone out walking (which is mental because its absolutely pissing it down) so I'm home alone, with nothing to distract me, except the whole internet ( Read more... )

I went into work half an hour early (I arrived at 7.45!!!) on Tuesday to explain the StudentOfDoom situation to Phil. He spent the morning trying to contact the University, but her tutor was already out on placement visits. We left a message and in the afternoon I took StudentOfDoom up to Phil's office to discuss the issues arising from Friday ( Read more... )

Well she has finally done it... I think what happened on Friday was the straw that broke the camel's back.

I observed the StudentOfDoom's lesson on Friday, and it went ok. Nothing amazing, even though she was doing alkali metals . She finds it difficult to question the kids and get them interested, so when she threw the sodium in and nothing much ( Read more... )

My bottom set Yr 11 did an experiment to investigate insulating materials, in which they covered beakers with black paper, white paper and tinfoil , filled them with hot water and measured the temperature change each minute.

Q: If you had been able to use one more value of this variable, what value would you have chosen? (Basically what else ( Read more... )

I've got loads done today. I set the timer for 45 mins to work and then took 15 mins of not doing school work. Been doing that since about 9.30am with 45 mins for lunch ( Read more... )

Is it the weekend yet? I'm tired of all this work! I'm trying so hard to be organised, make friends and fit in that I'm dying on my feet. Don't think I've been this tired since I did my training year ( Read more... )

It was our department review yesterday and today and my observed lesson was this morning. Now after the little hiccup with the stone and the car window at the weekend, I wasn't exactly prepared. I spent a lot of Sunday evening (even though I was exhausted) planning and preparing for this lesson. I stayed at work until 5pm (we technically finish at ( Read more... )

Miss Muffet: What are you most looking forward to now you have started secondary school?

Y7 pupil: Taking my GCSE's *looks puzzled* How do you spell GCSE Miss?

Miss Muffet: G.... C.... S.... E....

Yeah, it was a bottom set, but still... Only the boy behind her thought it was stupid question and rolled his eyes! I had to work hard to contain that