Yes for you Scots out there, having the end of the school year in Nov/Dec may seem normal, but for me it was strange to be writing up the end of year exam papers after having been here for only 3 months! With Thembelihle being a home school and having no set syllabus, it was up to me to write the exam papers, invigilate the exams, create the mark schemes, mark the papers and write up the reports for each child at the end of it! So November was spent frantically making sure the children understood everything I had taught them over the past few months, holding extra revision sessions outside of lesson times, one-on-one tutoring and mini tests in lessons. I think the biggest challenge was writing the papers and finding the right balance between phrasing the questions in a way they will understand, whilst considering the different abilities within each class…much trickier than it sounds! Invigilating the exams involved sitting in on 2 hour long exams, although I must say I did enjoy the silence…I think it is the quietest I have ever heard them! Marking the exams was more rewarding than I thought it would be. Although there were some silly mistakes and some disappointing answers, overall I was very proud of every single one of them! They did me proud, and I’m am so happy with the A*’s, but more so the E’s which the less capable English speakers achieved – their faces when they saw they had passed…!
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