Longer tweet warning!! I often say that I have loved every second of my 42 years as a teacher and I am not sure everyone can understand why. So I thought I would post some of the things that have made me think this way. At school and coming from an estate where few had gone to

Uni, that whole thing seemed Alien to me and something beyond my reach. So I left school and had several all sorts of jobs. Then I thought I will try and be a teacher because a couple of friends had gone to uni and so I thought maybe I can. In my training I was in Leeds and

Worked in schools with kids with challenges and I loved it, i was touched by their stories. i then got a job in a Secondary school 11 to 18. In my first year it was so hard and some of the kids were way taller than me. But I learnt my craft and made so many mistakes to learn from