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This week was a little unusual. Firstly, on Tuesday in English Language I had my first ever cover teacher. It was odd. In general, I don’t think our cover teacher would have been a bad teacher, even just for one lesson, if he hadn’t had a meeting with the Principal for half of it. That…

We’ve reached the first of the ‘progress grades’. There’s three in the first year and two in the second (I think). They come with one-to-one meetings with your teachers and your Tutor and mandatory SMART targets (ah, yeah… we’ll get to those). For Maths and Physics, we have reflection cards to fill out. I’ve not…

This is a lot more immediate than anything I would normally write, but it’s actually a reasonable time currently (five o’clock) and I’m still in a fairly excited state about what I’m writing about today. My English Language class has a Twitter thread where useful articles and videos are posted and students are encouraged to…

I haven’t really had half-term breaks before – I have, for online lessons and schoolwork at home, but nothing that changed my schedule as drastically as this what did. As far as I can see, college mostly involves massive amounts of travelling. I spend two hours a day getting there and back even if I…

Annoyingly, copy and paste (and autocorrect, apparently – maybe I shouldn’t be doing this on my phone…) seems to be considered unacceptable in a lot of places, including here, so I haven’t been able to just quickly post everything I had already written. On top of that, Sixth Form is exhausting, so I haven’t had…

I’m sixteen years old and before this September I’d never been to school I was home educated, and had been all my life. I learnt at home, not very formally, taught by my mother, the world around me, and various online lessons – very different from the school systems that went online over lockdown. I…