So, having resigned myself to failure on Monday, things have started to look up. I’ve made a few new friends and, after a long chat, it seems we’re all just as nervous as each other! We’re all worried about discipline, being laughed at and pupils being, to but it politely, annoying.
We had two lectures today – one by the headteacher of a school in East London and one by some dude who used to be a History teacher but is now a tutor at a ITT provider in East Anglia. The first lecture harped on about London’s ethnic diversity and its impact on education. The second was about classroom management and raised the interesting point that if pupils enjoy your lessons, behaviour management doesn’t even arise.
But the most important thing I learnt today is that I’m not alone. I hope I make some good friends here. And even if I don’t, I’ll always have my family, my boyfriend and my squirrels 
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