All's still good in the land of ickle sarah, although as I expected, it's hotting up on the work side of things. I spent most of Saturday getting my folders in order, and doing audits and directed activities, and I really should be doing work now as opposed to writing on here!

I also have all three skills tests booked for tomorrow. I'm feeling ok about ICT and numeracy, although maybe I should feel less confident about ICT, as I can't seem to use my computing skills to find the lieracy practice test on the net!! I'm on the page of the tda website which says "An interactive version of the benchmark test and three interactive practice tests are available to download"... but can I find the 'download' button?! I managed fine with ICT and numeracy.... maybe I'm destined for failure when it comes to literacy!! Actually, the guy who gave as a session on the skills tests says it's not called 'failure', it's called 'deferred success'....!!

My maths, english and science audit tests last week went pretty well - 89%, 70% and 77%... but I need to hit 75% in every section of every test by next March, which I only did in maths (damn biolgy knowledge, or lack of it)! Still, I'm not too worried about that... I know where my weaknesses are (biology, phonics and grammar) and have alreayd planned in my audits how to swot up on them.

On Thursday and Friday last week we had 'proper' lectures/seminars and I really enjoyed most of them, particularly maths. In fact, I'm surprising myself by really enjoying the University-based bit of the course (so far) as I wasn't expecting to find it that great - I just wanted to get into school!

My first day in school is 17th October, so I should find out pretty soon where I am on placement... scary...