In my 10 years of teaching, I have been called upon to do many last minute assemblies. You always need a few stories up your sleeve, ...

The last week has been surreal. Great, humbling, but odd. It began on Tuesday with the arrival of the proof of my textbook. This ...

On Tuesday 22nd March, I was contacted by various former colleagues asking for prayers for Tony Ward, Head of Geography at my former sc...

My personal life has been dominated by the arrival of my first child, Tommy. He arrived in October, but we had spent from mid-January kn...

2015 was a full year of professional blogging for me. Some posts seem to get quite wide readership and were shared by some of the '...

I Image courtesy of Jason Rodgers Last year at school, I was seriously considering my options. Career progression is often a little s...

Image courtesy of SadMag A friend of mine once wrote on Facebook that it upset her that teachers were writing end-of-holiday status...

Image courtesy of Nomindsvision I really do love to blog, especially about recent CPD I've attended, ideas I've had and read an...

First I was dying to finish high school and start college. And then I was dying to finish college and start working. And then I w...