Posted in Food, Recipes, teaching on September 27, 2007 | 40 Comments »
It’s been a long week. A good week. But a long week.
The high points have included finally clearing my marking in-tray (hurrah!) and winning a pub quiz (joy!). The low points have included the actual process of clearing my in-tray and a couple of crazed pupil outbursts in class: the first of which involved a boy getting [...]
Posted in teaching on September 9, 2007 | 29 Comments »
Rather hungover. Short post. Just for fun. :)
Whilst reading the paper online this morning I discovered that yesterday was International Literacy Day. The Guardian marked the event by inviting readers to share their favourite words. Some of the responses interested me greatly and others made me laugh out loud. They all put a smile on [...]
Posted in teaching on August 28, 2007 | 24 Comments »
“Crabbit” is another great Scots word meaning grumpy. Crabbit reminds me of my sister when she’s been woken up too early (i.e. before noon) or D when he loses a mountain bike race to his brother-in-law or Gen when I tell her to slow down though she’s only driving at 40mph. Crabbit is me after a crappy day at [...]
Posted in Recipes, teaching on August 15, 2007 | 25 Comments »
Last night I left school with a dark cloud hanging over my head. At some point during the previous six weeks a large number of my lovely, fluffy pupils had been fed after midnight and had mutated into hissing, fidgeting, sneering gremlins with wild, wild looks in their eyes. It was a hellish day. A day which had me [...]
Posted in Recipes, teaching on July 30, 2007 | 22 Comments »
I’m off on holiday tomorrow. First stop Karlstad, Sweden then onto Turku, Finland with a quick stop in my beloved Stockholm enroute. It’s always exhilarating to go overseas but this trip is extra exciting as I get to spend lots of time with some very good friends who I haven’t seen in a long time. Hurrah!
Shamed [...]
Posted in Recipes, teaching on July 29, 2007 | 15 Comments »
Despite having more than two weeks of my summer holidays left, last night I lay awake for hours planning lessons in my head. It wasn’t intentional. Indeed, I tried very hard to switch off and drift into oblivion, but I simply couldn’t stop thinking about how much there was to do in the coming term and how [...]
Posted in Recipes, teaching on July 4, 2007 | 10 Comments »
All teachers know one of the most powerful ways to keep pupils motivated in class is to provide encouraging, relevant and timely feedback. Without this the kids have no idea how well they are doing and loose their focus entirely. Plus, everyone likes a compliment. :) In this respect I am no different from my [...]
Posted in Inverness Restaurants, Recipes, teaching on June 15, 2007 | 17 Comments »
Walnut & Parsley PestoOriginally uploaded by wjharrison77.
Earlier this week a bolshy, fourth year pupil, L, marched up to my desk and demanded to know if the rumours were true. Was I moving school? Was that true? If it was true there was no way that L was going to speak to me ever, ever, ever [...]
Posted in Recipes, teaching on June 11, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Food 051
Oh, I’m so lazy. I have done absolutely nothing since arriving home from school. Worst thing is that it’s a lovely day outside.
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Hee hee. Writing that last paragraph made me feel so idle I took my bike out of the garage and went for a short cycle. Extremely glad I did so. Not only [...]
Posted in Recipes, teaching on June 10, 2007 | 12 Comments »
Crispt duck
Originally uploaded by wjharrison77.
It’s Sunday evening and around this time I usually start to think about the school week ahead. Tonight is no exception. First thing tomorrow I’ll be teaching my seniors. Really looking forward to it as we are reading a favourite of mine, MacBeth.
Thankfully the class are enjoying it so far. I [...]
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