1. Mrs Sayers Mrs Sayers has now been teaching for more than thirty years. Despite telling me I shouldn’t be a teacher (turns, out she mean a primary teacher), she’s the woman who first made me think about what makes a good job. For 19 years, I watched mum clear the dining room table and sit down to work every weeknight. Every weekday afternoon, I (not so patiently) waited in her classroom for her to finish marking. Almost every shopping trip, I saw her pop a book into her basket which would be good for her classroom’s book corner. Lesson: Just because your job’s hard work, doesn’t mean you can’t love it. 2. My main PGCE mentor I was lucky enough that my PGCE mentor not only the head of PGCE course, but also a force to be reckoned with. The mannerisms which I watched with awe in my first weeks of my PGCE placement are now part of who I am as a teacher. She applied her firm but fair approach to her pupils and to me, making sure that, even though I may have briefly wallow
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