Oh my god, my lesson was rated 'good' today. So I have passed ( Read more... )

Farmers market haul for today: 2 giant parsnips, bag of Swiss Chard, 2 onions, 6 eggs, 2 packets of stuffed pasta, a Crotin goat cheese and a smoked goat's cheese and two types of potatoes (1 kilo in all, but two different kinds ( Read more... )

Home. Nobody has burgled my house and I'm off for a curry and thence to the Lewes Arms for a pint or two of Black Rat to cheer in 2008.
It was snowing in most of England today, and my train was a slam-door one; that is about as exciting as it gets.
This year my resolution is to read 50 non-work related books. Number one is almost finished...Jane ( Read more... )

QTS Standard #3: Demonstrates positive attiudes, values and behaviour they expect from children and young people.

I've bought a new road bike (Dawes Galaxy, hazeii) so I can cycle to school; can't think of a more positive example to set young people. It was expensive, but I bet the price of bikes will go up when the oil runs out, so best buy it now.

I've been increasingly frustrated with the way mathematics is taught in school- both in my school and by the attitudes of some of the people on my course ( Read more... )

Any of my LJ teacher friends know where I can get one ( Read more... )

Since I haven't bothered updating for...a really long time, I'll just write about me and my wonderful life. Since my last update (I think) I've finished my Phd, gone to France for 2.5 weeks and climbed a 3893m mountain ( Read more... )

I was offered a place on the maths PGCE at Sussex. I'm not sure though. And I only have 2 weeks to give them an answer, so have to ponder ( Read more... )

I feel broken. I could lay into myself about all the things I've done wrong, all the ways I've failed, but I've done that enough today. I could say I plan to change, but I've done that before and to be honest it's never yet happened. I don't know. I keep saying I can't go on like this, but somehow I do, so I guess I will keep doing so ( Read more... )

Back from Chamonix. Busy in extremis ( Read more... )