We are delighted to announce we are finalists in this year's #ProudScotland awards in the Education sector for our work in supporting young people, staff and families who identify as #LGBTQ+

Ah poor, sweet, naïve student-teacher-me. A year in the staff base with three other NQTs has really hardened me up.

On my second placement I taught a lot in a classroom with bunting, funky folders, and a pillow with Dwight's face on it. It is the inspiration for my new classroom - everything must be funky. So I started with my resources boxes from TKMaxx!

5 weeks ago Thomas and I visited Banff for the first time. I was adamant that it is the only place I ever want to live again (we visited for 30 mins) and Thomas was adamant that a 35 minute commute is too much. Anyway, we're going up to get the keys to our flat tomorrow 😅

Nothing quite as satisfying as a new wall display 🥰

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Can you imagine having a mentor for NQT year who is SO LOVELY that even once you're gone and no longer their problem, they will send you chocolate, a card, and an SQA Understanding Standards pack with HANDWRITTEN notes on where the marks were? I feel so lucky 😭🥰

Won't dwell on the '2nd' favourite teacher comment 😂

Very excited to present on assessing at the BGE phase at the History PSG for Aberdeenshire next month! 🥳

Excellent work from S1 today! They were given the option to make a LEGO man showing what they know about Celtic people or a housing advert for them. I'm unsure where the cowboy theme came from but 10/10 for effort 😂

S2 were using their knowledge of trenches today to build their own! The rules: it had to be as accurate as possible and shield at least 5 people from attacks (though rather than shells we used bouncy balls). A brilliant (but messy) period 😁

So incredibly excited that in under two weeks I'll be mentoring my first student teacher! If you have any advice for me, please do share it. I want to have as positive an impact as I experienced on my second placement 🥰

What an Easter holiday! Very happy to announce that I became Mrs Lee (though Miss Howie will do until after summer to avoid confusion😂) and spent a beautiful week in Turkey 🥰 Bring on the summer term!

#OnThisDay in 1913, suffragette Emily Wilding Davison died, after stepping out in front of the King's horse during the Epsom Derby several days earlier.

Did a bit of second-hand book shopping online for my Advanced Higher class. One of the books arrived today, apparently an ex-library copy, and look at that - signed by S Sebag Montefiore 🤩

Very well done to my S3 (now S4 😢) Historians on creating their own wall display on the Scottish Wars of Independence! From measuring the backing, to the painting, to the creation of excellent sources - they did it all themselves 🤩

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Decorating your classroom is a marathon, not a sprint 😂 here it is in August 2023 when I was just about to start and then again today.

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

An interesting idea but only feesible if pupils are allowed to sit Nat 5 over S3/S4 - prelims would have to be brought to before Christmas and, having just done this in my current school, pupils struggled with the insane workload scotsman.com/education/scot…