Charity appeal - Thank you! During the Catholic Education Week we collected clothes for those in need. Our Local St. Vincent de Paul Society picked up our donations today. A huge heartfelt thank you to those who donated. QueenMargaretAcademy

Won’t lie, I’m feeling massively overwhelmed today and it feels like my to do list is growing faster than I can tick anything off😩

Why you should take lateral flows regularly. This morning vs. this evening:

Insane how all it took for me to get over my years of public speaking anxiety was to have 31 teenagers stare at me waiting to be taught Mon-Fri 🤣

It was Christmas jumper day at my last day of placement! Thank you so much to QMA for giving me such a positive experience!! Remember gingers are for life, not just for Christmas! 🎄

Perks of living in the town where your placement is: went a walk tonight and got stopped three times to speak to students😊

A powerful read with some practical advice for anyone navigating their way through the teaching profession whilst managing daily health battles with chronic illness. It’s tough, but we’re not alone. Teaching With a Chronic Illness: edutopia.org/article/teachi…

Anyone else finding it extremely hard to keep their PPF up to date this time round? Feel like I have 0 time to update it 😩

My placement school’s GIRFEC classes are learning about young carers this week, so refreshing to listen to young people discuss topics which they wouldn’t usually get the opportunity to learn about!

Been informed by my S2s today that they are making a petition to “keep” me🤣🤣 don’t you just love democracy in action😄

Today was my last day teaching S3 at placement and two lovely students brought me in an Easter egg, buttering me up for when I come back but I will take chocolate covered bribery anyway🤣

How it feels navigating through anything in teaching, never compare yourself to how someone else is doing as you’ll only drive yourself mad!💛

Was so great to pop along to PE and see the kids having fun on the inflatables today!😄

Must have gotten too used to all the bank holidays at the beginning of May because this is the LONGEST WEEK EVER!!

Very excited to be doing my NQT year in South Ayrshire, there’s no place like home☺️

Last day of placement at Girvan Academy and I can only say thank you to the humanities dep and the rest of the school for making me feel so welcome and supported over the last 12 weeks! Onto probation year now!☺️

Had a lovely time celebrating the hard work of all our PGDE students today. Great to spend time with the modern studies students who could make it #CPmodernstudies Strathclyde Institute of Education

Teaching is so weird because nobody seems to want to talk about how to explain things... which seems like it'd be something we'd talk a whole lot about. There are a few things I've learned from research into clarity of explanations that I wish I'd been taught earlier 1/