Back to school..

Today was the first day of my school based learning experience at St. Martin in the Fields School for Girls. The day started well with the sun shining and my journey surprisingly taking me less than an hour. As I walked up to the school I was very impressed with the entrance, lots of green with an impressive old building in the background that proved to be even nicer inside.

http://www.stmartins.lambeth.sch.uk/

I was invited to follow a year 7 class around which I was told was the top set. It was fascinating to observe the number of different characters within a relatively small amount of girls and how teachers would later use this knowledge to help them maintain order. Knowing who the strong characters were and how to keep them in check seem to be the trick, something I'll need to remember.

Their first lesson was an ICT class aptly based around how noise levels fluctuate within the classroom at different times of the lesson, these girls sure could talk! I felt like an old man in the corridor since a girl was trying to speak to me, but I couldn't hear a word she was saying over the noise of hundreds of girls all talking at the same time and had to keep asking her to repeat what she had said, much to her annoyance..

Looking forward to the rest of the week, but not the 6am alarm..