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This past week has been...interesting.

Mat contracted a stomach bug, which I then caught...I'm emetophobic so that is never, ever fun. Just getting over it now, thank god. I'm so happy we only ever get sick about once every five years.


I also had my second week at school, still doing joint practice and it's half term this week. After half term I'm pretty much in school full time, scary to say the least. The level of literacy at that school really appalls me. I never realised this and was completely in the dark in my little Private School bubble. Some of the kids there have a reading age of around age 7 at age 12-13, and their writing and spelling? Oh dear. I'm getting less irritated with what I perceive to be bad behaviour, but sometimes, oh sometimes I just want to scream at something, or someone. S. gets to me, he just wants attention and it's so.damn.annoying.  For example, many of those kids come from poverty, so the school provides them with books, including GCSE revision books at £12 a piece. S. sold his for £10. Now that I do believe, but he then goes on to show off his phone which has a picture of an enormous amount of marijuana on it and that's what he spent the £10. All the while I'm watching his eyes and his eyes are literally flicking from side to side trying to figure out who is listening and it's just so pathetic. He's 15 for christ's sake. There is no way I believe that that was his. Why? Because he wouldn't have said so whilst there were 3 teachers in the room. So I just rolled my eyes when he looked at me. Mean? Perhaps. Deserved? Definitely.

Talking of S. he has done me one favour. I feel far more comfortable in my abilities to tell off than I did before!


Then there is St. she is just a sweetheart, on Friday after school she asked me how long I was going to be at the school and when I said until December she said "no, I meant today" I said I'd stay as long as she liked and so we sat in the MFL resource base and practised her oral stuff. I really think that she has the ability to make something of herself, and I told her so. I'm positive that with the right effort she can get an A* no problem. Also, before the lesson, I was waiting for Andy to open the door to the classroom (we lowly PGCE students have no keys *sniff*) and St. came up to me and asked if I was going to be in the lesson. When I replied affirmative (OK I didn't actually say that :P) she was really happy. It was so sweet. This is what really irritates me about mixed ability. Because of kids like S. kids like St. and R. don't get the support they need, want and deserve to get on.

In the land of my assignment, well I've finally decided on the topic and started writing it, currently 850 words into 3000, this is going to be one hell of a stressful week on top of 4 lesson plans and resources to get done :/