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Just call me Miss Smith!

Wow. I feel like a proper teacher now. I've had two lesson observations and performance management review in the last 25 hours. And its not even an OfSted. Its such a funny one as I;m just not used to being looked at this closely- but its good for me. We just set targets about me being a little firmer in my application of the school rules and some bits and pieces around literacy! I'll get feedback on the observations in due course but early signs are good. Two people accosted me to say that the building learning power guy was waxing lyrical about my lesson yesterday.. happy days. (And more importantly apparently all the kids like me!!)

Sometimes I feel like I could do this all the time.. I'm sure it will pass...

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