The buzzword which I am often hearing people use to describe these strange times is “unprecedented”. I certainly felt that no word was more fitting than this to describe the start of my day on Wednesday when I was back in school. As per the new school day schedule, each day kicks off at 9am…

It has now been four (term-time) weeks since the schools closed. This week, I took some time to reflect on how I would have managed if I had been forced into a world of online learning while I was a student at school myself.  Unsurprisingly for anyone who knows me, I know that I would…

It’s already been almost one week since the school year ended, marking the end of my two year Teach First journey. I feel that I owe it to my nine followers to write one final post to conclude my journey and I thought I better do that today, before I fly to Greece tomorrow and…

Teaching is a job where I feel like I am always learning new things. Sure, a lot of those things come from the professional development sessions which are meant to help us continually improve our teaching, but I also learn a lot from the students themselves. Here are just a few things that I’ve learned…

I don’t know how it’s happened, but we are almost in April! This year really is flying by. In fact, there are only around 13 weeks of school left in this school year. For me, that means I only have 13 weeks left in my current school as I will then be leaving at the…

It’s Saturday night and I did intend on doing some lesson planning tonight, however I am currently feeling a little under the weather with a cold, so writing a blog seems like a more desirable task than school work right now. It’s been a busy start to the new term. As we have had three…

I did a similar post to this one back in September, which you can read here, where I talked about a few events in the school year and how they are different now that I am a teacher, compared to when I was in school myself. But I wasn't quite done, here are a couple…

There are officially 7 school days left until Christmas! That’s only 7 more days where I have to put up with the kids singing Christmas songs, writing Christmas song lyrics instead of doing the work and even getting out wind-up Christmas toys. Today was a good day; I had a meeting for the end of…

It’s a Thursday night which is my night off from school work, as I have Brownies 5-6.30pm (Girlguiding, not just a long session of eating brownies), usually followed by a night of Netflix. I thought I would mix things up a bit this week however and write a blog tonight instead. The week began with…