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Be careful what you say… in front of your TA!

I was in my NQT year. I was teaching an ordinary Year 3 English lesson about descriptive writing. We were focussing our writing on Harry Potter and his battle against “he who shall not be named”. The children were struggling to write about it so I started rambling on about what the children could write…
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Talking to a brick wall

My mum used to always say she’d get more use from talking to a brick wall, than if she talked to me. Apparently, I never used to listen to her? Today, I understood how she felt and it wasn’t the first time it’s happened. I know that I’m already very much like my mum in…