Our first study day is officially full!  We've got 16 applicants for the 4th December and already 7 for January and a couple for March.  What's really delighting is that we've got a fabulous mix of current students/graduates/brand new people - our Twitter campaign has really worked.  One of the principles of the project has been that I wanted marketing to be entirely via social media - a banner on our website, an entry on our TeachNorthern blog, Twitter and Facebook.  And it's worked to get us the mix I'd hoped for.

We've asked each applicant to write 300 words on why they want to come on the programme; partly a test of commitment but also to inform the action research project, which is also taking shape.  I've been in tears over some of them...people really care about doing this stuff right.

In other news...a pesky norovirus put paid to me meeting with the coaches last Friday, so figuring out the coaching methodology is still to do, but the programme for the study day is taking shape in my head and it feels good...

Hope everyone else is feeling the same excitement about their projects!