• Winter Holidays

    Hello everyone! I hope you are all having a wonderful Christmas break. I have completed 5 weeks of my final professional practice with another 5 weeks to go! My school is absolutely fantastic, with lovely staff and even lovelier children! I am yet to come across a child who doesn’t go out of their way […]

  • Summer Plans

    Hello everyone! I hope you’ve all been enjoying this sunny weather and watching the royal wedding! Like true grown-ups, my friends and I had a water fight, ate ice cream in the park and splashed out on a paddling pool! Wow, I can’t believe it’s nearly the end of May already! Since a lot of […]

  • So, it’s a fresh start… HELLO 2016!

    So, with a fresh start and a new year, can we really apply the cliche of ‘new year, new me’? You’re probably on your last big push before summer exams and the pressure is starting to mount, but please don’t stress. I know exams and coursework is stressful, believe me I’ve been there- and still […]

  • Travel, travel, travel…

    If I won the lottery what would I do? Travel! After uni (and when I’ve saved up enough money), I want to go travelling around Europe. I constantly daydream about where I’d go, the sites I’d want to see and how long I’d stay in each place. I’ve been pretty lucky so far, in that I’ve managed […]

  • Let’s not get ahead of ourselves now Jen…

    It’s just occurred to me that I didn’t introduce myself properly in my first blog entry… and I don’t know how to feel about that (cry). Well, my name is Jennifer McAlister- but I’ll let you call me Jenny. I was originally born in Scotland, however due to my mum’s job I have moved around […]

  • Faye’s Blog – Life Plans.

    The question that everyone student constantly gets asked by other students  family and friends is: “So, what do you want to do after university?” And from personal experience and from talking to my friends we have all agreed that it is extremely irritating as for most of the part we don’t know exactly what we want […]