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I passed my PGCE :-)

Got this through the post today…
I am pleased to inform you that at the meeting of the Board of Examiners held on 15 June 2007 it was recommended that you be awarded a Post-Graduate Certificate in Education (Schools)

Blah blah well done, come to the graduation ceremony in November, blah blah wish you well

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End of the paper mound

The end is in sight :) I have just had one of my files checked at University and am now waiting to go and have my other file looked at. That’s the big one that caused the piles of paper in my house.

I finished sorting it last night and then went around my front room with a box, stuffing anything made of paper into it. I’ll probably have stashed an… Continue reading

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An all-nighter, and not the fun coding type

This is night #1 of “oh shit, my Uni work has to be in NEXT TUESDAY? Not a week on Tuesday?”

You see, for the past eight months I’ve been teaching IT to kids. This involves quite a lot of paper as I have to meticulously plan everything – I have yet to acquire the ninja skills required to simply turn up and go “right then, today we are

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End of the 6am Starts

My final placement has finished. No more will I have to endure getting up at 6am and staggering about the house for fifteen minutes just to wake up. I’m off until my proper job starts in September so expect to be completely nocturnal by then.

Kids are strange. You fall into three categories – people the like, dislike or couldn’t care less about. Being in the first category is a handy… Continue reading

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Headless Chicken Time

Next door there is a small group of year 12 students having a panic because their coursework is due in tomorrow. No, most of them have quite a lot of work to complete.

In here there is me who has a university assignment to finish for Monday. The best part? I am away from tomorrow night until Sunday at Retrovision so tonight is the last time I can finish this work… Continue reading

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