A few weeks ago I had a phone call to say that a parcel had arrived for me in reception. I’d thought it was just something my hubbie had ordered from eBay and could wait – the new beard trimmer he had ordered a week or so before (that we were both desperate for!) had … Read more
Whilst we are waiting for the promised consultation on the year 7 resits (now being called progress tests!) I am going to try to persuade as many “bloggers” (I still don’t consider myself one of those … I’m a teacher!) as I can, to write a blog post (or should that be “another” post because … Read more
I can’t sleep. I had all these grand ideas about being able to do a blog post a day but I have slipped easily into “normal” life and spent lots of time doing things that I don’t have time to do in term time. To be honest I’ve tried to write a post on a … Read more
So it’s Sunday morning and I’ve had a lie in but it appears that my god-kids have been up doing some maths this morning. My god-son Vinnie was up at 8 am and his sister Madison ploughed in after breakfast and there was some much-needed golden silence in their household – I know because I’ve … Read more
In October 2014 I wrote a post about why I blog and tweet (I still don’t know what makes a good or a bad blog post by the way!) and then in Feb 2015 I wrote my “idiots guide to Twitter“. I suppose the point of this post is to say that if you’ve ever … Read more
Today has been the first time in a few years where we haven’t been saying goodbye to someone in the team or saying our own farewells on the last day of term – the department is stable and we have no one leaving either. I know this isn’t the case for lots of departments out … Read more
Yay. We made it. Term one is done and dusted but what a term it has been! The academic year started with the school where we moved to last September expecting a visit from Osfted – as a school that “requires improvement” already being an academy if they didn’t like what they saw we knew … Read more
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