Back to school for all of us today. Flo was sick last night at around 1am, all in the bed. Lovely! The joys of parenthood. Poor thing though, not a nice experience for anyone. She was fine this morning thankfully, so off she went. It was all a bit chaotic but I managed to get everything ready, only for the rest of them to leave after me and forget most things! Such is life.
My school day was fun. Thank heavens I'm not just teaching maths by itself anymore. I love teaching maths, but I like a bit of variety too.
Today I taught phonics to reception children. My three weeks worth of plans were a little ambitious ha ha! I'll be lucky to get past week 1 in the three weeks left. It's difficult to pitch a first lesson when you haven't observed the group previously though and I wasn't that far off the mark. I did describe it like trying to keep thousands of ants in a box which I shall hopefully address tomorrow with some more active learning.
The spelling research has started off well. I'm just going to look at planning for progress/next steps in writing at word level. This week i'll do some general research accross all three year groups. The I'll see who looks interesting and pursue 2-3 children in the following 2 weeks in more detail. I've never done research before so I need to read that book! How to do your research project (and finish it lol). Anyway, I've made some headway tonight but not enough (as usual). I'm prepared for phonics tomorrow which is the main thing. It's freezing and the heating has gone off so I need to head for my snuggly bed.

Crumbs it's been a long time!

I'd forgotten my password and can't remember how to do this. It's been a heck of a busy and manic and bizarre time. I'm now almost half way through my PGCE and it's every bit as tough as everyone told me it would be. I'm trying to work out how to do a small scale research based project at the moment. My class teacher has asked that I do something to do with spelling, which at first I thought would be really boring, but actually, having done some reading on the subject, I think it could be quite interesting, and could definitely be a useful learning experience for my future career as a teacher. That's if I can actually ever find a job in the wonderful county of Devon. I'm intrigued as to what will eventually happen to me. I really hope I'll get a job and be able to do all these things that I'm growing more and more passionate about every day. My friend from Uni is visiting tonight, she's just got a place at Newcastle Uni to study to be a psychiatric nurse. How bloody amazing! I can't wait to see her. She's really scared but I know she'll be fantastic.