Today was the first day with the kids.....It was great I really enjoyed it. They were just kids and not anywhere near as scary as I thought they would be. I've been working on one table with the lower ability children and I hope that I will be able to teach them something!
Anyway I'm doing my best to impress gerry and I seem to be finding out lots of stuff that will be useful for what they're learning and I hope I'm learning about the national curriculum but I don't know what I'll need to put on the applicaton form for the GTP so it's all trial and error I suppose. Actually thinking about the GTP make me think about when I was applying for Uni and doing everything I could that would look good on my UCAS form, it's sort of the same thing now. I'm seriously involved in the school news paper as I think it will be good for the kids and that it's something I'll enjoy what with my degree and back ground but there is still that little voice at the back of my mind that is thinking "this will look really good on my GTP form", I actually have no idea if it will or not but thats what my brain is saying.
Anyway the new enthusiasm continues...I've been sorting some stuff out about evacuated children for the world war 2 project in class 5 and have just spent about 2 hours typing job descriptions for the school news paper. Actually me and Charlotte thought we should make them apply for the jobs and also sign contracts (hey it's part of the every child matters charter to teach them about the world of work 
) but we thought that might be to hard for them, however I might mention to Charlotte tomorrow that I'd be happy to sit in one of the class rooms at dinner to help the kids if they needed it with applications. Anyway, I've got 15 job descriptions that I'll take with me tomorrow.
I wonder how long I will be young and keen for before the daily grind wears me down?
