Light Relief

After many nights lesson planning - with no guidance at all - I feel a little better prepared now. One of the teachers at my cluster school - a fantastic teacher who was graded in the top 1% in the country after some intense observations/interviews/inspections - pulled off some objectives for me, so now I know that I am going in the correct direction. :)

Whilst I think we all got something positive out of the session with the teacher, the majority of the morning was spent gossiping. When our STCC returned [he is the head of two schools and had to visit the other school for much of the morning], even he wanted to get in on the act! He sat there and listened to all the gossip off our course and was even more enthusiastic about hearing it than we were lol. Turns out, there is a slimy guy on the course. He has lied about his age, failed to mention he has a child and dated two girls off the course at the same time! All the while, he has been sending provocative and down right filthy text messages to an assortment of other girls...

The two girls he has been dating happened to start chatting yesterday, just in the common room, and it didn't take long for it all to unravel. Even when they confronted him, apparently he was trying to be swarve and squirm his way out of it. Tut tut... Given that there are less than 90 students on the course [as some have dropped out], and we have lectures together every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, he certainly had a nerve dating two girls at the same time.

On of the lads in my cluster group was definitely impressed though - he said the guy must be doing something right to have kept it going for 10 weeks lol! In contrast, one of the girls in my cluster wants to put posters up around the department - something along the lines of 'beware' or 'get tested' lol. Obviously she won't - well, I very much doubt that she would lol, but she was very annoyed as she was friends with him... You can just imagine what the mood towards him [the slimy guy I mean] will be like on Monday lol! Eeck for him!

So, whilst the content of the gossip wasn't the nicest, I think the fact that we all sat around and chatted and for once didn't think too much about planning/school/pgce assignments - that was the light relief. :)