Musings :: Moments :: Memories
I mark an piece of poetry analysis today. I take my time - I don't have a large stack. I have just one student's work. I type up my feedback starting with what they did well, then explaining some of the ways that they could do even better. Finally, I write a paragraph of analysis… Continue reading Tiny Bit of Teaching
I was a teacher for ten years and it never really felt totally right. For most of my career, I was waiting for it all to click, for the conditions to improve, for the support to be given, for the current I was swimming against to slow. For a time, I thought it did. Teaching… Continue reading For Good
Yesterday, I spent some time with my lovely friend and work colleague who unfortunately suspects she has busted a ligament in her knee (it is still too swollen for them to say definitively). We had a bacon sandwich with chilli asparagus on the side which is pretty much the perfect lunch in my book, we… Continue reading When It Works
Back in 2005, I started my journey to become an English teacher. I made initial enquiries and it soon became clear that in the climate at the time, my BA (Hons) degree in Linguistics was not going to contain enough English content to satisfy university requirements. so while I was still working in London as… Continue reading Regret, resolve, and peace
I really believe that creativity is an essential aspect of human life. I didn't used to think so. In fact, for many years I told myself the story that I wasn't remotely creative. All through school, I didn't believe I could be creative because I didn't really understand what creativity was. Now I think that… Continue reading Fearing Creative Failure
When I first started teaching, my lovely colleague Louise made me a jar in which I was to capture moments in the school day that made me happy. There are so many challenges in the job that it is important that we try to hang on to the parts of the job that make it… Continue reading Happy Jar
Around here I am in and out of school while the school closure drags into another week. It is not the start of term I had expected and I miss seeing my colleagues properly. Around here Evelina is coping well with her long days. This year, her bus is so early after her original bus… Continue reading Around here
Another prompt from the book The Right to Write was to write down one hundred things that make me happy. Just making this list made me happy! Autumn leaves Bacon Hugs Harper Dog Laughter through tears Steel Magnolias Running into the sea Blue skies My kids' laughter Mountains in the summertime The purr of a… Continue reading What Makes Me Happy
Around here Austin and I stayed in pyjamas for most of the day while Austin had his tummy problems treatment. He handled it like a champ. Around here we binge watched a new home make over show on Netflix called Instant Dream Home. Around here I marked books. Around here Rich and Evelina did a… Continue reading Around Here
Friday just gone was Evelina's last Friday at Primary School. After seven years of being in her little one class entry school, always being the oldest in the school (the school opened with her class so now she is in Year 6, the school is full for the first time), having a lovely group of… Continue reading Beginning of an Ending
Notes From My Day 