GOT A DEGREE, ME It wasn’t till uni, yes, I made it you see, got a degree and post grad, me! With no thanks to those who taught me so wrong, who just couldn’t see the way, I needed to learn back then in the day. Maybe they just didn’t

Shakespeare? To be or not to be? Well surely it’s a NO, a NO to Shakespeare for children as that’s what they are, a child. Let us not expose them to such horrors of murder, cruel revenge and suicide. This is not the way to solve problems, this is not

Another time which illustrated my bad behaviour was when I was taught how to smoke by one of my two friends. It worked as I did smoke for a few years following that first attempt, crouched down behind a length of risen grass on a mound out on the extensive

I often wonder how they would react, my old teachers, to my Batchelor of Education with Honors degree, or my Post Graduate level 7 Certificate, my level 5 specialist teacher for maths, I did not make a pig’s ear of that one did I Mrs Smith? I say this or

Bullies Bullies are cruel, Bullies cause pain, physical or mental I feel are both the same. Stick and stones they say will break my bones but names will never hurt me. I am not so sure about these lines Physical pain can leave a colourful bruise but will fade Mental

How do you spell? Do you spell Birmingham with and e or an i? Well how was I supposed to know? Words and letters just sound the same after a while of trying to decipher which one comes first and what come next it’s really no cause for laughter. For

Secondary ‘What a pig’s ear you’ve made of this’ was a comment at the bottom of my work in maths How dare you, what right did you have? to write that and simply smirk when trying to explain to me the error of my ways. Which of course I just

Peer support is important. Having a supportive friend is important, someone you can talk with, chat through ideas with, someone you can turn to and ask for help, someone you can have fun with. All these are important factors for a young child, especially when facing the transition, which can

Back to school and I went into the hall aged 10 with the pretty girls, in their dresses and pigtails knowing I wanted to play the flute. There were three flutes available to four of us…guess who got landed with the violin? I am convinced that the flute went to

Something I’m good at I was ok at sport, netball, hockey too I could run I could swim hit a rounders ball or two so had I found something I was good at,  was there a way to now achieve was there something I could do and show those that