Today, in the first official time given to me as an ICT subject leader, I had the morning our of class. Now, the majority of time was spent on paperwork – the changes in curriculum for next year have huge implications. Curriculum changes have been a constant topic of conversation over the last few years […]
All I’e done today is work. Believe it or not, I feel a little behind in things already after only two weeks of teaching. Things get a little more hectic this week as I have a student teacher working alongside me in their induction to the school – she will be teaching on and off […]
16 more caches today to take us up to 949 finds. Lots of driving around too. It makes this month our second best ever after August 2011 where we found 141 caches. The problem we have is that we can’t possibly beat it due to our self imposed limit to reach 1000 by the end […]
So, what can I say about the last academic year? Well, in short, it’s been hard work. I’ve had responsibility for the Year 6 maths results – which I can safely say were the best the school has ever had (the only ones they’ve ever had, admittedly) – and a Year 5 class which I […]
I’m still plodding on. I’ve written many times – mostly at these milestone numbers – that I cannot believe that I’m still going with this project. I really didn’t think I would be able to keep it up! It’s not always easy to sum up days, especially with my job, but I’m still enjoying writing. […]
Today has yet again been solely focussed on report writing. The end is in sight however, with 13 complete reports submitted for reviewing and 9 to finish tomorrow night (hopefully) The writing of reports is possibly the lowest point of the school year for me. I find it takes over life completely and there’s always […]
Firstly, this is post 501 on this website. I’m slightly annoyed that I missed 500, I hadn’t realised that yesterday’s geeky maths thing was post 500. Oh well. It’s only taken 9 years to write 500 things – clearly this year has been very good for the totals with 150 daily posts, a couple of […]
Well, what seems like a long half term is finally over. I think that because these last few weeks have been so busy, it’s hard to sit back and take stock. Over the coming week there is little opportunity to actually stop and relax. I have a huge list of things to organise and complete […]
This has been a very ordinary day. I’ve spent a large amount of time looking ahead at things in the future and not really living in the moment at all. That has made this very difficult. When I say looking ahead I mean these things in particular: What I’m going to be doing with my […]
After what seemed like an age – 17 days in fact – I returned to work. Not for long though, the next holiday isn’t far over the horizon. I generally don’t feel like that normally. Today was one of the better days recently at work, the most I’ve enjoyed teaching for a while if I’m […]