When I Did My Teacher Training, One Of The First Things They Made Very Clear To Us Was This: Were Not

When I did my teacher training, one of the first things they made very clear to us was this: we’re not here to teach you subject matter. Not brilliant at your maths, English, sciences? You’re on your own. We’re here to teach you how to teach. And I am immensely grateful because:

I just BLAGGED my way through AN HOUR AND A HALF of 1-to-1 GCSE Physics I know NOTHING about electromagnetic formulae I was speed-reading the kid’s study guide UPSIDE DOWN while TALKING VAGUE ELECTRICAL BOLLOCKS.

<wheeze>

I think I’m going through one of those near-death-experience natural highs...

As travelling to the frozen North goes, you could have worse days than this:

I may occasionally demonstrate all the intellectual vigour of a potato, but my god, I have the hand-eye coordination of a mach 3 fighter pilot.

 Seriously now...

And continuing not bad once you actually get there:

 I... made a noise when I saw this. I’m not sure the noise is describable or repeatable.