Melissa's Melting Pot

This year I am going ahead with a project I have been planning for some time now...  I am going to set up my own business! Or attempt to anyway! I have been enamelling and playing with glass for the last seven years and have wanted to do this as a job... Crazy right?! When others have wanted to buy a new car or some fancy new technology I have wanted a kiln and a blow torch. My future project towards creating my dream studio will be to build a furnace, but I need a shed/studio first!  Anyway, back to reality, having spoken to a lot of different people about my business idea I am going to try it this year.  Watch this space!

I've been looking online for different books that help you when starting teaching and have been sent a copy of Andrew Crossland 's book: Outstanding Teaching in a Primary School He is a classroom teacher in a primary school in the north and is coordinator of art, design and technology and school council at his school.  In his book he covers lots of different topics that trainees in particular may be interested in, but are also relevant to primary school teachers. It's got sections talking about classroom management, differentiation and has handy tips and ideas for things like starters and plenaries as well. It gives you lots of ideas for that you can use in your classroom! And it's always nice to have backup ideas for class games, tips on prompt questions you can use and behaviour management techniques.  If you want to check out his website then it's at: www.outstandingprimaryteacher.com