Whilst watching Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares last night I couldn't help but draw parallels between the poor sap getting an eff-ing roasting from Ramsay and my current experience in the classroom.

The trouble with the restaurant was that the manager was making everything too complicated, with a choice of seventy-two items on the menu, including chocolate prawns and chicken with banana - I kid you not. And that's what my lessons are like. One of my year tens, quite a pleasant one in fact, had said to her form tutor that my lessons were too much like fun and she was worried that they weren't learning anything.

I think all the cut-up bits of coloured paper and activities involving group work may have been a little too unconventional for some tastes. I think I'll stick with baked beans on toast for a bit.