This is just me being insufferably smug and showing off (AGAIN). I can hear you all groaning and saying inwardly "Oh for goodness sake, doesn't she EVER shut up??
So If this is the case, look away now. 
I just went into work to check out the A level results. And I am SO HAPPY I can't tell you. One of my individual students, who I have worked with for the past 8 years has JUST GOT INTO UNIVERSITY!!!!!!!
You'll probably all be wondering why I care so much. Well he's had a statement of Special Educational Needs, and has significant recording difficulties. He's the loveliest boy you could wish to work with, bright, funny, hardworking and talented. When I first started working with him in year 7 HE COULD BARELY WRITE. All he could do was dictate to me what he wanted to say, then it would take him the full hour to painstakingly copy letter by letter what I'd written, and would have only managed about 2 lines of writing. After MASSIVE input, he can now write essays!! OK he can't spell, or punctuate properly, but he can do well enough to get the marks.
I was so chuffed I haven't stopped grinning all morning. Mind you, I now know that it's a REALLY bad move for me to drive when I'm excited. I was going along the bypass to take my car in to the garage in Berkhamsted (still grinning widely), looked down and realised I was driving at 115 mph.
(See her thread)
Not quite what they were hoping for.
