With these long days and nights staying at home, it was inevitable that I would end up returning to blogging. This is my first post since July last year and a lot has changed since then. I am living in a new city, working at a new school and of course, the biggest change: the…
To teach, or not to teach?
Some people who decide to do Teach First know before even starting that they are not going to pursue a career in teaching, but they are just using it to develop key skills and experience before moving onto another career. Others who do the programme have had their heart set on teaching for years and…
4 things I thought about teachers as a child that I now know aren’t true
It’s the new year, which seems like a good time to write another long over-due blog post. My last post was in October and a lot has happened since then. Highlights included another breakdown in school in which I questioned why on earth I am putting myself through this. Ahh- no half-term is complete without…
Back to school
In our last session of the summer institute, we were asked to write down our biggest concern about our first day on a post-it note. Jokingly, I wrote that my biggest concern was that I would be crying by lunchtime on my first day. I did not think that it would actually happen. Well, how…
(Almost) The End of Summer Institute
Somehow, it is already the fifth and final week of summer institute. By the end of this week, the 2017 cohort, over one thousand of us, will have officially passed the final stage of the recruitment process and will therefore be ready (I use that word lightly) to start teaching in our schools in September.…
How I ended up here…
When I was in primary school, one of my favourite games was pretending to be a teacher. This essentially involved doing a register with a list of all the names I could think of, then using a whiteboard marker to write the date on my wardrobe, as a substitute for an actual whiteboard. But although…
Teach First, Blog Later 