Last Tuesday me and my colleagues had a very interesting conversation. Me and another NQT were talking about the heavy workload and how we n...

All of my lessons start in exactly the same way: the date, title, learning objective and starter are projected onto the IWB, the pupils copy...

As a teacher, I've noticed that although you're changing peoples' lives every day, it's quite rare to be thanked. I know I...

I'll let you in on a big secret. There is something I love more than maths. I know, big shock, right? That something is reading. I love ...

This week we had a teacher training day focused on Ofsted. My academy will definitely be inspected this year, and the odds are it will be af...

This week I had my first official observation. As an NQT, I'm qualified to teach but I'm sort of on probation, so someone in the dep...

I have quite a serious social impairment. All I ever talk about is school. Every facebook status I've made for the last 5 weeks has be...