Browsing All Posts published on »November, 2013«

May 2013 Daily dailygenius

November 13, 2013

1

Wednesday 22nd May 2013 Today was one of those incredibly busy SLT days, with meeting after meeting after meeting with staff and students. Apart from catching up with SLT colleagues about interviews tomorrow and links with local schools I met twice with my new co-teacher for Sociology, twice with Sociology students keen to discuss yesterday’s […]

February 2013 Daily dailygenius

November 13, 2013

0

Monday 11th to Friday 15th February 2013 Given that I’ve not written anything all week I thought I might as well summarise my daily genius thoughts in a single post for the week. Friday – One of those from the highest to the lowest days. So important not to let the lows make the highs […]

January 2013 Daily dailygenius

November 13, 2013

0

Wednesday 30th January 2013 Eight years ago tonight my daughter was born, which is pretty bloody genius in its own right. More to the point though, eight years ago tonight a team of 13 health professionals (at least, my counting may have been inaccurate) helped bring my daughter into the world after a long, arduous […]

December 2012 Daily dailygenius

November 13, 2013

0

New Year’s Eve 2012 Realised today that spending time in the bath, reading your old blogposts on personal matters, putting them out to lovely people on twitter and chatting about them is the perfect way to get into the New Year spirit. Happy New Year to all you lovely people on twitter or the blogosphere. […]

November 2012 Daily dailygenius

November 13, 2013

0

Friday 30th Movember 2012 Just one thing on this last day of Movember. I’m hating this prickly, ugly, ridiculous and uncontrollable appendage to my face more than I can express. In particular the grey parts of it have depressed me quite significantly. But imagine if I had a different appendage, to my testicles or to […]

Oh What a Circus! Oh What a Show!

November 11, 2013

2

Schools aren’t entirely unlike circuses. (Bear with me on this one.) Everyday teachers up and down the country pull off the most ridiculous feats (cf the episode of Educating Yorkshire where Mr Burton used the King’s Speech film to make us all ooh and aah), logic-defying successes that rely upon a combination of skill, practice […]