Thursday afternoon is my PPA (Planning, Preparation and Assessment) time in school. Usually I spend it in school working in the office alongside a colleague and it’s a good time to get lots of useful jobs done. Most of my current colleagues tend to go home and work, more often than not I don’t – […]
Most of today was spent in school, dithering over small decisions. Most of my classroom is back how I want it to be. Tables are ready with new pencils, whiteboard markers, rubbers, rulers and glue. My desk is tidier than it will ever be in the next year. Generally, it’s all starting to become a […]
These past few weeks have been full of things that I haven’t done in my adult life. First, it’s the surprising addition of shorts to my wardrobe, which I’m loving, and now it’s a trip to a swimming pool for recreational floating about. Morley Leisure Centre in the sixth form was the last time I […]
It’s the holidays! 17 lumps of time, each taking the form of a day, in which to do things. Band was lovely as always, only 8 of us there but that meant that we could focus on some detail. In the end we pretty much nailed 8 bars that were tripping us up every time. […]