I'm coming to the end of my first placement now, and thinking about it gets me all sad! Despite the fact it has been bloody hard work, I've had an amazing time. The staff at the school are really cool, my mentor and I get on like a house on fire, and the kids are great. I'm going to miss them all so much!

Last week we had 'Arts Week' which was absolutely amazing. It's just how I think school should be all the time (well, to an extent, anyway). We spent the whole week doing art, music, dance, drama.... basically anything creative. I taught some music and art, as well as a creative writing lesson, and played my violin to all 150 pupils in year 3 during Monday assembly. I also led year 3 in a 'round' during the final performance on Friday. It was a really great week, and I wish we had it all over again from tomorrow.

I'm looking forward to seeing my 'uni friends' again in a week's time, but I'm not looking forward to getting back to lectures. They seemed pretty pointless before Christmas, and I know that now I've been in school teaching 'properly' they'll probably seem even more pointless. My PGCE course is a good one, and some of the lecturers are very good, but in school is where you learn the 'real stuff'.