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• Diary of a new teacher

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• Braving the storm

  Jul 22 2008:

  Oenone Crossley-Holland: I know what little monsters await me in September; they are contemplating the dark, unknown horizon

• Taking charge

  Jul 1 2008:

  Oenone Crossley-Holland: "Is there anyone," I asked my year 7s, "who would feel confident in running our philosophy session themselves?"

• Small is beautiful

  Jun 17 2008:

  Oenone Crossley-Holland: A handful of my year 11s found me and asked if I'd 'go through' Catcher in the Rye with them; their exam was the following morning

• So ... shall we stay on at school?

  Jun 3 2008:

  Oenone Crossley-Holland, our New Girl columnist, has to decide after two years on the Teach First programme whether to remain in teaching. She looks up her old classmates to see what they have decided

• Walking for Africa

  May 20 2008:

  Oenone Crossley Holland: Today I spent my Sunday walking across 10 bridges with 28 year 7 students and a small party of staff

• In the summertime

  May 6 2008:

  Oenone Crossley-Holland: I've been waiting for the summer term since the beginning of this year

• Nobody's fools

  Apr 22 2008:

  Oenone Crossley-Holland: The countdown has begun. After more than five terms with my GCSE set, there are only 19 teaching hours left before the first of their English exams. The only one who seems to be panicking is me.

• Taking the stage

  Apr 8 2008:

  Oenone Crossley-Holland: Until last Thursday, I'd never taken out a group of students on a school trip

• Double meanings

  Mar 25 2008:

  Oenone Crossley-Holland: The challenge of speaking two languages is a pertinent issue for well over half of my students

• Stressed out

  Feb 26 2008:

  Oenone Crossley-Holland: "Leave. Your work should not be making you cry."

• Clowning around

  Feb 12 2008:

  Oenone Crossley-Holland: In the classroom, as a general rule, things that the students are raucously squawking about, I don't find funny

• Looking back

  Feb 5 2008:

  Kate Herbert: When I started writing this column seven years ago, I was a 30-year-old starting a PGCE in an inner-city school, pretty terrified, and with little idea of what my new future would hold.

• If at first you don't succeed

  Jan 29 2008:

  Oenone Crossley-Holland: This is bad teaching. Really bad

• Dome diversions

  Jan 22 2008:

  Kate Herbert: I'm not sure how many schools have used St Paul's new programme of events for primary children, but it's great

• Sick day

  Jan 15 2008:

  Oenone Crossley-Holland: On Tuesday, during lesson four, I realised I'd been bitten.

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