Life has got busy recently and it's all rather exciting! I have found myself in a long term cover teacher role at a primary school teaching Year 2 and I couldn't be more thrilled! To make it even sweeter, I am in the process of preparing for an interview for a role starting September!! All [...]
I'm just writing a little post to say Happy New Year! Ermm, or maybe not... January has seen our third lockdown here in the UK and personally it has been a struggle as I'm sure it has with lots of people. My big one has been feeling financially secure so, I've been trying to find [...]
...I am just trying to do my part and use this platform - no matter how small a reach - to share some real life responses to these never ending injustices...
Firstly, if you're reading this I hope you are safe and well, wherever you may be in the world. I can't help but think, at this time particularly, that it's a difficult time for many; for more reasons than Covid-19. As I do not speak from experience I am choosing not to write about some [...]
One of my online tasks at the moment is to create a medium plan for either Maths, English or Science. Lesson plans are something you create from your first placement but medium plans are a great tool for overseeing the whole term/ year. I didn't start contributing to these properly until my second placement where [...]
The PGCE I am on is a placement based course with a planned 8 months out of 9 being in schools. We do have university and specialist training days interjected but for the most part we are learning on the job! So, the big question I've been asked by lots of people is, how am [...]
Seeming as we've all been in lockdown, it's made me wonder if people have taken to or are reading blogs more. So, I thought I'd share the blogs I really enjoy to flick through and why the bloggers inspire me. Petra Alexandra She is a conscious, minimalist Canadian blogger who I love for inspiration on [...]
Just thought I'd let you know before you read on that this is a sad post. I can't remember if I've spoken about our fur baby before. She's a beautiful doglet who has been part of our family for about 7 years. We rescued her from The Dog's Trust, in Wales, after she'd spent 1 [...]
Exploring what is the 'new normal'...
I thought I'd just dive in with me at the mo...
