I met up with some old Millbridge friends this evening to say farewell to an old colleague who is moving on. What struck me is that I’ve been working at my new school now for 5 years. I was only at Millbridge for 4! Still… I have another year to go before beating the 6 […]
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 – […]
Where on Earth has today gone? It certainly doesn’t seem like 17 and a quarter hours since The Boomtown Rats were waking me up. (Tell Me Why) I Don’t Like Mondays is currently the alarm of choice, that cracking piano introduction does wonders to rouse me from my sleep. The day flew by at work […]
This title comes from the episode of Outnumbered I’m watching. It has nothing to do with anything. Today has been a nice day overall. Work was good, got a lot done in the afternoon. The two lessons I taught were ok – maths in particular, which covered all types of angles, and how to find […]
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 […]
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. […]
Today I came home, via the garage after having a headlight bulb replaced, to find that the road outside our house has been dug up for the third time in an attempt to locate a gas leak. Now, my nose isn’t the best and I can’t really smell gas so I haven’t noticed a problem. […]
To my blog, I have been thinking about you, I promise. But I also have been working harder than ever these past few months, buying a house, preparing for a new job and thinking about maths, some of these things simultaneously. I had no real time away this holiday – a few short and wonderful […]
Evenin’ all. I trust you are all in fine fettle. My teaching practice is entering the final straight now, with just this last week of full time teaching to go. It’s also been cut short by my having an operation on March 3rd. All will be well, but I may have an odd appearance for […]
This entry was originally part of a separate, personal blog. I’ve merged them together now to make life easier. All the dates that the entries were originally published and posted comments have been preserved. ——————————- Today has been a good day I guess. My lessons went well and I’m currently having the afternoon as Non-Contact […]