I have finished my school experience!!! No more lessons for me (well, not til September any way!)... I'm kind of happy that I've finished, but quite sad to be leaving the school too... Still don't have a job for September, but lots of resignations will be going in over the next couple of weeks, so hopefully I'll get something... Prayers on that one would be much appreciated.

So, it's now half term, and I am exhausted! I think it's partly because now that I know that I've finished school, I'm letting myself feel the tiredness that has been building up. it may also be because I carried my two HUGE school folders home today. Big leverach things they are, and they're full of lesson plans and stuff.

Any way, talking of exhaustion, I think it's time for bed...

So nearly there... 12 lessons left til I finish school (2 lessons tomorrow, at an interview Friday, 1 lesson Monday, 3 lessons Tuesday, 2 lessons Wednesday, 4 lessons Thursday, staff training day Friday)... Will be sad to leave, but am still excited about reaching the end of this year - it's been hard work. I know I've got more hard work to come, but finishing will be clearing a major hurdle!

When I finish school, I then have a week off (half term) which will be nice, and then I go back to college for just over a week, and then I have nearly 3 WHOLE MONTHS OFF!!! I will be working - am marking GCSE exam papers over the summer...

I just can't believe how close I am to being a REAL TEACHER...

A belated crisis of confidence?

Well, I'm now almost half way through the week, meaning that I've got 2 and a half weeks left at school... And, I'm having a crisis of confidence - along the lines of what I perceive to be my lack of classroom control (apparently, according to everyone else, not an issue; I even held it together when my video was in the wrong place, and then rain started coming through the ceiling onto the children...); my tendency to get flustered (EVERYone who's observed me has commented on how calm I am.... Am I sure they're talking about ME?!!); whether I'm going to fail (no causes for concern, so apparently not...).

So despite my worries, other people think that I'm good, and even I know some of my strengths, but it didn't stop me from crying down the phone to my other half... Oh well, it's half term soon....

For Spurs lovers everywhere:

How do you like your eggs in the morning?
Without salmonella, please...
How do you like your toast in the morning?
Without arsenic, please!
How do you like your coffee in the morning?
I like mine without spit...
But I don't mind, I'm just satisfied if breakfast don't make me sick!!!

(To the tune of the advert about orange juice...)

I have a short week at school this week, as yesterday was bank holiday, and I'm at an interview on Friday. I also only have 2 more lessons to plan for the week, as I'm a few lessons ahead in my planning for most classes, and also because it's Year 9 SATs week, which means I only have one Year 9 lesson this week.

Did an introduction to Rastafarianism with Year 8 this morning, which led into a discussion about different types of drugs (one pupils thought Rastas smoke crack). Had to link the slave trade to this lesson, and explaining that led to a discussion about HIV and AIDs, as well as the debts of developing countries.

Only 4 more weeks of my placement left! Then it's half term, and then I go back to college for just over a week, and then I'm finished. Including today, I have 17 more days of teaching left to go!