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As my first term as a trainee teacher has come to an end, I have been reflecting on how I managed to thrive through my first SCITT teaching placement. And as someone who has survived, I wanted to [...]

Teachers finish work at 3pm. Teachers are always on holiday. Teaching is easy and anyone can do it. How many of these have you heard? Well, I have only been teaching since September and to be [...]

I swapped with a fellow trainee to write about how to survive being a trainee teacher because she questioned if she was surviving. I thought it would be easy and offered to swap. I sat down after [...]

Never underestimate the power of clay… I did! I have come from a digital background; my practice consists of working with multiple screen based media. The fluidity from camera to screen, to [...]

Congratulations to Georgia Breakwell who has been appointed as Teacher of Geography at Aldridge School after two successful placements at Plantsbrook School and The Friary School.   [...]

  As PE teachers, Teacher standard 1a can often take on a new meaning, as some of the activities we teach can be very dangerous. Trampolining is an example of one of these sports so we were [...]

So many of those in middle leadership, will at some point aspire to be on Senior Leadership; it’s the natural progression and order of a school route. You see Senior Leadership in your own [...]

We all get to the bottom of the mountain at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter what route you’ve taken. For many schools and teachers February half term is peak ski trip season. I was [...]

It’s green. Not just any shade of green. A juicy shade of green that you only want to imagine floating around in your weekly gin and tonic. “This is your new classroom, you will be spending most [...]

It’s 7:30pm on a Sunday, I’ve just finished my roast dinner with my family and the busy week I have ahead of me is creeping in… At the start of my teacher training, I used to get the ‘Sunday [...]