doWalking through the doors of where she, sally Saunders, would spend much of her time over the coming months, she couldn’t help but feel that familiar pang of

‘ooh jeez what am I doing’?

The sight before her as she chugged the length of the drive in her clapped out bright red ford fiesta, certainly gave the impression this school was to be no easy ride! (Something to do with the barred wired around the roof, kinda told its own story…)

The entrance to the home of her new job, a temporary post, this was true but hey that’s how she liked it, no commitment, it was easier that way no commitment, no tires. That’s how she liked it, don’t get to comfy, to settled, stay as long as she liked, move on when she wanted. This however didn’t make the jobs she took any less challenging. It was the challenge she liked. The jobs the agency could never fill but a few days at a time. They were the jobs Sally loved, thrived on, even.

As she parked her little red fiesta in the staff car park she was in doubt a challenge was exactly what she would get here, of that she was sure!  Could have been the barbed wire which really gave it away this time!

Teaching is most definitely not a job for the faint hearted. Or at least not the teaching jobs Sally managed to find herself in. It takes over her life. She gets embroiled in the children and their families, their life. Wanting nothing more than to give the children she taught a chance, a chance of achieving something with their lives.  Organising extra curricula activities, the kind some of the children may never have experienced before. Lacrosse, hockey, aerobics art club or games club something for everyone, roping others in to help out, getting parents involved. She loves it.  She makes it her mission to make a difference. To change the lives of the children she meets. Giving each and every one of them hope, hope of a brighter future. Giving  her job her heart and soul.  Inspiring her young charges encouraging them that success was within their grasp, they just had to believe it. Their dreams could be real. And more importantly they had something special each and every one of them had something special to offer the world. That’s Sally, saving the world, well trying to, as long as no one got to close to her. The children were different they had no expectation of her, they … well they took from her she was good at giving. Grown ups… Let’s just say it’s never straight forward with grown ups. So Sally Saunders made her life her work. TEACHING.