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Welcome to our blog
Hi and welcome to our blog, I hope I can share some positive survival tips I’ve discovered and also share my journey with you from a single mum on state benefits to full time employment (hopefully) as...
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The Story So far…
OK the story so far, or in otherwise, why am I blogging? Well I have been inspired by the blog “A Girl Called Jack”; the blog of an amazingly tenacious young mother struggling to survive on £10 a week...
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Todays meals -
Ok today I was naughty and didnt have any breakfast but my girls had toast and hazlenut spread at a cost of about 18p each (three slices of value bread with a spoonful of asda value chocolate and...
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Preparing for pgce
the wee ones are in bed and I’ve just finished reading a book on formative assessment as a method for learning in the primary school (actually really great ideas about learning as a reflective ongoing...
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Quick note to start the day… PGCE reading, food shopping and preparing for a...
The book I was talking about yesterday is Shirley Clarke (2008) “Active Learning through Formative Assessment”, Hodder Education: London To anyone training in education, I really recommend you read...
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I choose the path of peace
After reading Michael Goves comments today that child poverty is due to irresponsible parents its enough to make your blood boil (but I won’t because being angry just doesn’t help me be a better...
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£20 shop to feed a family for a week
As promised here is the result of my weekly food shop and planned meals for the next 7 days. Food Plan… Thursday – breakfast (toast and spread), Lunch (leftover courgette and potato soup from last...
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Formative Assessment in the classroom – talk partners have positive impact on...
This post is based on the book I mentioned earlier today by Shirley Clarke (2008) Active learning through formative assessment, Hodder education, London. I have been teaching for a while now in the...
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