You have your GCSE results – now what?

A big congratulation to everyone getting your GCSE results today.  It’s been my habit to write something specifically linked to results day each year.  Quite often, like others, I’ve taken time to make the point that results aren’t everything, that this isn’t the one day in your life that settles everything.  Ironically, I’ve been saying… Continue reading You have your GCSE results – now what?

You are not just a number (a message for those getting GCSE results)

Eleven (Millie Bobbie Brown) is  one of the lead characters in the Netflix blockbuster series, Stranger Things.  Taken from her mum and used partly for experimentation and partly as an anti-Soviet weapon due to her psychokinetic powers, Eleven loses her birth name and becomes known by the number tattooed onto her. It enables the lab… Continue reading You are not just a number (a message for those getting GCSE results)