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Born
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Playschool - Whitecrest
Aged 2 1/2 I attended Whitecrest Primary School Great Barr -
Start Nursey at Lindens JMI
1 form entry. Open plan style classrooms. Topic work often used as a vehicle for teaching key skills. Captain of the football team but last one to learn how to swim. -
Fail 11+ for QM Boys Walsall
No football or girls on the curriculum so I was not particularly upset to miss out on attending grammar school. -
The Streetly School
The local comprehensive with an 8 form intake. French compulsory to GCSE for all. Half the school aslo did German, the other half Spanish. House system for games/competitions and pastoral role through H.O.Y. -
SATs exams introduced
Achieve level 6-7 in Englsih/Maths/Science which meant nothing then and only start to understand 13 years later! -
Stay on into 6th form to do 'A' levels
Study 3 Economics, Business Studies and History -
BA(Hons) Business Economics 2:1
The culmination of 3 very challenging but rewarding years. -
Quit MSc Construction course
Decide that a life in teaching would be a better one -
Start PGCE and revisit QM Boys
Realise that had I scraped through the 11+ I probably would have been prevented from doing Economics at 'A' level because of setting and excess demand.
