My Teaching Creed

It is hard to believe that I am now approaching the final month of my teacher training programme. This time last year I was submitting my last exam for university from my kitchen table and wondering where on earth 2020...

Starting to feel like a ‘Real’ teacher!

Overall another successful term with its ups, downs and everything in-between. It’shard to believe that the next time I write this blog it will be near enough the end! Ifeel this year has prepped me for anything and I mean...

Easter already? How did that happen?

Easter already? How did that happen? Starting out in September it feels like the end of the course is forever away but, training to be a teacher really is a whirlwind. Whilst the workload is huge, it is entirely rewarding...

Remote Teaching

"If you'd have said 'remote teaching' to me a year ago, I suspect an image would have come to mind of some 'remote' stereotypically stern Victorian schoolmaster! I would have found it amusing to imagine myself as a remote teacher...

Teaching in a National Lockdown: Christmas Edition

The best way I can describe entering my second term of teacher training is like the transition from Year 7 to Year 8; you’re still not quite up to speed with the older kids, but you walk into the school...

I have tried to make lessons where possible include some aspect of Christmas just to add that extra bit of magic…

I can’t quite put my finger on whether this Autumn term has flown by or whether it has felt like an eternity (the second feeling is probably due to the exhaustion kicking in). Either way, WOW, what a term it...

“I was blissfully unaware of the meltdown that was about to occur when Jeff the caterpillar was found squashed.”

This summer was a strange one to say the least. The lead up to teacher training, I had so many holidays and adventures planned; covid had other ideas. Whilst it wasn’t quite as expected, summer gave me the chance to...

Now let’s talk about rocks. Yes, rocks, I know what you’re thinking…boring.

I remember the nicest thing someone said to me when I told them I was going into teaching and it was, ‘spread the joy that you have because you have so much to give’. That is exactly what I’ve done...

For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to teach.

For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to teach. I remember rushing home from school to teach my teddy bears after putting them in an organised, and carefully considered, seating plan. Fast forward 19 years and I...