Blog of Susannah Quinsee about life, work, parenthood and play
I’ve changed the title of this post about four times to try to reflect my thinking! Needless to say, I’ve been thinking a lot about this since March 2020, which is unsurprising really given my professional role and also because Continue reading School, well, education is not just formal learning
The week started with Mike’s birthday which ended up not quite being the celebration we had hoped due to a rather unfortunate blockage in our drains. Suffice to say that although we hadn’t planned much for Mike’s actual day, dealing Continue reading Friday round-up: 16th October
Getting into the school-working at home routine now which is good if not intense! Reminded again about how much you can achieve with a concentrated block of time at your desk during the day. I got around to restarting my Continue reading Friday round-up: 9th October
What a grand title for a blog post! I’ve had an item on my to do list for, well months really, a while to do a reflection about what I have learnt about leadership during the pandemic. I guess the Continue reading Leadership in a global pandemic
I went back to the University campus for the first time in four and half months yesterday. I was quite apprehensive about it to be honest, just getting in the building, how it would feel, would I feel safe, what Continue reading Reflections from being on-campus
Been thinking about how different our weekends are now to in the world of Before (Covid-19). Then, I would start thinking about what we would be doing during the week, there would be an assortment of things on the calendar Continue reading Weekends now….
I really wanted to increase my writing and focus on my research outputs this year and to some extent I have achieved that. Although I have not had lots of articles published they are in process and I feel I Continue reading SEDA CPD Report: 2019-2020: Why I did it
I’m taking the “actions” outlined at the end of my report from last year as a start to my reflection. Despite the pandemic I have not really edited these substantially just reframed in terms of timeline So here are my Continue reading SEDA CPD Report 2019-2020: What I did
Well that is two weeks in a row that we have achieved “freewheel Friday”, albeit this week with 4/6 of the family as just Mike, me, Sylvia and Isaac went out on a bike ride. Which actually was rather lovely Continue reading Friday round-up: 3rd July
This weekend marked 100 days in lockdown. I’m not sure we really “celebrated” that much (other than a bit of a lockdown squabble!). I was wondering what to blog about for 100 days and rather than lessons learnt (not sure Continue reading 100 days in lockdown