Well, term is over. My first year as a teacher, all done and dusted. Not too bad, in the end. A little weird walking out and thinking this is the last time I'll be at my current school as a member of staff (barring unforseen returns, I suppose). I plan to go into the new school later this week to see what's going on and start getting plans for my classroom together.
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I am very behind on my FP - if anything interesting has happened/there are any party invites, drop me a comment, yeah?
Oh, also, TW is actually good. It's a strange experience. Last ep tonight - then I'll go back and listen to the radio plays.
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By the way, can I just say a big yay for the modern world? I am sitting in the garden watching Wimbledon on my laptop. It is awesome. Also, am probably going to get a new phone before I go over to London this evening to hang out with people and stuff.
Passed my final assessment, for those who haven't heard so am now a qualified teacher! This means that I am now under much less stress for the rest of the summer. Managed to pick up a disgusting cold last weekend (probably somewhat stress related) but that's now improving too and I managed not to lose my voice or actually take time off school (although I did spend a day doing group work instead of whole class teaching, which helped). I now return to the land of key stage two for the final few weeks of term, which will be a relief! I was convinced I'd picked up the vomiting bug yesterday but fortunately the feeling passed without incident and now I have no work do to this weekend :)
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Now Las Iguanas is usually a resturant that I'm pretty fond of. I've even given them my email address, for goodness sake! So when they asked me to do a survey, I thought "Yeah, OK then." That's when I was confronted with this on page 1:
EPIC FAIL. I tried to go through the survey to see if there was a comments box I could rant into but no sign of one so I will have to email them my displeasure.
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Well, I've got my final assessment next week for my course, which I've been working on getting the various documents up to date for (those of you watching the reflective journal may have noticed a few updates :) ). I am currently writing a claim statement detailing how I meet the 31 QTS standards for qualifying as a teacher. Makes me feel something of a prat as it's mostly spouting various random bits of jargon but apparently I have to do it.
So, as if that wasn't enough, my mentor pulled me aside this afternoon to let me know that the University of Reading are being inspected and we've been randomly selected to be inspected! So someone's coming in from the equivalent of OFSTED to talk to us and then watch me teach for an hour to check that the University's opinion of my progress is reasonable. Just what I needed. I guess as it's so close to the final inspection at least I won't have to do any more work than I was already going to!
Nearly there...
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