Kate Bohdanowicz

This week was brought to me by the letters S. T. R. E. S. S.

I had my first teaching observation that I spent 10 – yes 10 – hours planning for. It went Ok but I don’t have the results yet.

I’ve…

I start teaching tomorrow. The thought scares me. It’s not specifically the teaching or the students - it’s the idea of once more diving into the unknown.

Until I left the newspaper last July,…

I’ve been living in the past this week. First I interviewed three fascinating women in their 80s who left England just after the war having married American GIs. Some had regrets, others recalled happy…

It’s 23 years (and one day) since I got my A Level results. I was returning from a month’s Inter-railing when they came out. Because my cohort was the first year to do GCSEs, the A Level results two…

I’m teaching English GCSE in September and I’ve been given free rein over which texts to teach. Within reason. The drama has to be Shakespeare and out of the novel and poetry, one must be ‘of European…