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Everything in here that I write is solely the opinion of me, and therefore is probably the correct one. If you disagree, it does not mean I am wrong, but that a trans-dimensional hole has opened and you have stepped through to the wrong universe. Please return there and check this blog again, you will find that it all makes sense once more...

Category: Teacher Training

Stepping From One Door To Another

I stand (or sit anyway) here now on the precipice of a huge change in my life, of a magnitude that I am still finding difficult to comprehend. As regular readers (maybe that should be singular?) will know I have been slowly working towards a career change from a web developer to a primary school [...]

GTP Induction Day

Paper, paper, everywhere, and I still don’t have a clue. OK so it’s not quite what Samuel Taylor Coleridge said but it pretty much sums up the feeling I felt as I sat down 5 minutes into my GTP induction day. Before we even sat down we had been given a ring binder and several [...]

New On The Curriculum – Massage

I received a tweet earlier today with a link to an article talking about a school encouraging children to massage each other for 10 – 15 minutes a day. I’m not sure how I feel about this to be honest, so I thought I’d use this forum to air my thoughts. Firstly why are the [...]

GTP Assessment And Subsequent Acceptance

It has taken a while to get to this as I wanted to make sure everyone who needed to know was told and my affairs were in order before publicising it, but I have officially been offered a place on the GTP course at the school I was assessed in. The school were brilliant and [...]

PGCE Interview Day – Leicester Uni

Well I survived it, I had my PGCE interview day today at Leicester University and it was nowhere near as terrifying as I thought it might be. That’s not to say it was easy, it wasn’t by a long shot, but everybody that I met, from tutors to liaising teachers and the other applicants were [...]

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