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Welcome to my page!  You may have gathered my name is Julia.   I am a proud mum of three grown children, slave to three naughty cats,  play violin (badly ) and teach English to all age groups from Key Stage 1 to GCSE.  I completed my teacher training (PGCE) in both Primary and Further & Adult education,  focusing my teaching career in F&A Ed. basic literacy, and later  qualifying in adult dyslexia diagnosis and support (PgCert Adult Dyslexia Diagnosis & Support).  

 

In 2007 I left state education teaching to focus  on my private tutoring (which I've been doing since 1997) and also deliver an adult literacy class on a voluntary basis at a local community centre.  Although I loved the buzz of state education teaching, I can’t say I miss the political correctness nonsense, such as being discouraged from using red ink to mark students' work  because of the silly notion that they might become traumatised at having it marked in an ink colour they can actually see.   I felt the politics of state education wearing, leaving us God-forsaken teachers (what’s left of them) drowning in an array of unnecessary paperwork with precious  little time to focus on the job we are paid to do.   

 

Where was I?    Oh yes,  I hope this page will be welcomed by my long distance family and friends, especially those living overseas, as an  means of keeping up to date with us. 

 

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1) My  sons 2002;  2) My daughter at her 21st  line-dancing birthday party;
3) Mothers' Day 2007 with sons  

2005

        
 My children & me off to celebrate Granny's 80th birthday (more in photo album).
Me with cat, Mannie 2004.
My daughter on her 25th birthday.
 

 

My children when young.

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Their musical years

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My  daughter 2004   & my  sons 1995

 

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 My youngest son (front centre) Manchester Grammar School Venice Choir tour. 

 

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   My mother and me

Back further still,  a before and after photo I repaired of my paternal great grand-parents.

  
See  this page for my photo restoration work.  

 

  Photoshop Manipulations Photo album   

Click for  School Reunion Album
 



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