There is no motivation to write a new blog post quite like an email from WordPress with a receipt for the automatic renewal of your blog domain, which you have not posted on in over a year. Seeing this receipt, coupled with the fact that my last post was about virtual teaching and is therefore…
3 ways that virtual teaching and ‘real life’ teaching are the same
Virtual teaching or not, there are many ways that the ‘live lessons’ of the past month have been no different to normal teaching. So, as a continuation of my last post, here are 3 ways that virtual teaching and 'real life' teaching are the same. 1. Students still ask a lot of questions In normal…
3 ways that virtual teaching differs from teaching in real life
As we have switched once again to virtual teaching this year, this has unsurprisingly presented some unique challenges and situations that are not a problem in ‘real life teaching’. So, in true BuzzFeed style (a website I find myself mentioning a lot in these posts), here are ‘3 ways that virtual teaching differs from teaching…
Christmas Holiday Countdown
The Christmas tree is up, tinsel has taken over reception and the “But it’s almost Christmas!” complaints have started from the kids. The Christmas break is well and truly almost here and I could not be more ready for it. It’s been a whirlwind of a term and although it has been busy, as all…
A (school) day in the life
One of the things that I love most about teaching is that no two days are the same. Of course every day comes with different classes, duties, meetings and responsibilities, but when you throw in the complete unpredictability of children, it makes for an interesting surprise. Each day we arrive at school, we never know…
Practicals, PE and Philosophical Questions
There have been a lot of changes in school this year, but one of the biggest and most exciting changes is the addition of two PE lessons to my timetable. In my last blog post, I anticipated that my first lesson was going to be a beautiful disaster, but in a surprising turn of events,…
Baptism by fire
The first week back to school has quite literally been a ‘baptism by fire’, thanks to the Year 7 boy who managed to set fire to the rubber tubing of his Bunsen Burner in my lesson period 6 on Friday. It was only a small fire, but as you can imagine this caused much hysteria…
Eat, sleep, chill, repeat
Ahh, the summer holidays. The highlight of the school year! As I, like many others, will not be going abroad this summer, I have tried to plan as many day trips and activities to fill my days as I can, to maximise the time off. But although I do love to stay busy during the…
On cloud nine
“Miss, why do you keep walking around? What are you doing?” This was what I was asked yesterday and it was a good question, as for the past five to ten minutes I had been peering into the meeting room down the corridor, walking upstairs, coming back down, sat on the steps and then repeating…
A brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, and a criminal
Eight weeks of school closures means eight Mondays where I have emailed my form to find out how they are doing, as per my duty of care. Despite them receiving this weekly email with clear instructions that they must reply, unfortunately the response rate isn’t always great. Some students will happily answer my questions and…
Teach First, Blog Later 