can't believe it - someone i did not want to see

I'm sure you'll be fine if she's not actually the class teacher you are working with. She would look very unprofessional if she said something to the teacher you are working with.

Hope your placement all goes well. I remember my training days at uni like they were yesterday, can't believe this is my 7th year of teaching!

I think you need to be really professional here and just get on with it. Put the past behind you and move forward. Don't let her to get to you and remember it is only a placement for x amount of time - it's not like she's your permanent boss.

Oooh I can imagine the shock. Personally though, I'd leave it a while and see if anything is said. You can approach your tutor if you feel the need to but I think you need to give it sometime first.

Is it a long time since you were at uni? Could she be a different person now? water under the bridge and all that.

I'm sure she's more mature than she was now - aren't we all? would be daft if she wasn't. it's four years since i finished my degree. it's just that uni make a big thing about disclosing any possible thing about the schools - if we know someone in any school we aren't meant to go there. i might just let my tutor at uni know and say i'm just tipping him off in case anything did happen, but i'm sure it won't. but i've seen her in the street now and then and she still works up a good massively filthy look for me. and the smirking this morning was quite unsettling.

i'm hoping we can just ignore each other. she must be established and i'm sure she's sufficiently bothered about her own standing not to do anything unprofessional. there isn't really anything for me to do other than let a little smirking go straight over my head and pootle on. i'm torn between kicking myself for not saying hello and taking the "see me, i've moved on, i'm being nice to you, you boot" thing and commending myself for inadvertently doing the probably more sensible and less aggravating thing of just saying nothing.

thanks for that - was a bit of a bolt from the blue this morning, and i've not been able to tell anyone until now. waargh. well, whatever. i'm sure it will be ok.

It's probably a good idea to mention to your tutor that you used to know her, if the University made such a big thing about knowing anyone at the school. If you think it's at all relevant, then perhaps mention that when you did know her, you didn't get on.

I think not saying anything to her was probably the right thing, though.

do you? oh good. that makes me feel a bit better. my stomach's being unsteady with the stress of it, i keep asking myself why it had to happen! ( ? reminds me of a pupil today in a bottom set lesson which was a tad unruly, who turned his face to the ceiling and shouted "why, God, why?" a propos of nothing... )

In the early 1990s, I would regularly have to either ring up or (in extremis) write vitriolic letters to one of the junior editors of a London listings magazine (back in the days when Time Out had rivals) because he kept screwing up the listings at the cinema I used to manage - if two films had the same title, he'd invariably list the wrong one, that kind of thing.

Fast forward ten years, and the same junior editor is appointed editor of a magazine I'd set my heart on writing for. Whoops. Oh, and he's based in the same building that I work in.

But actually it worked out fine - we jovially acknowledged our previous differences, and have been the best of friends ever since - and I'm now one of his most prolific contributors.

Then again, our animosity was professional rather than personal, so it might be a slightly different situation.

The main bit of fishwifery i remember concerned her complaint that in rinsing a cup under the kitchen tap, i had dislodged the suds from a bowl of dirty washing-up water she claimed to be planning to re-use later. perhaps i should present her with a bottle of fairy with a bow wrapped round it and ask for her forgiveness ?

You have to tell your tutor.

Is she going to be doing any of your obs/assessments? If so, you need to make sure your uni are aware just in case. Even if she is assessing you, it's incredibly hard to fail a student teacher on a placement (I know, I tried).

I'd tell your tutor but not asked to be moved. Part of teacher training is learning to work well with others, but your tutor needs to know in case of issues in the future - if you have problems with her and then bring it up, it'll sound really petty.

WSS - not least because it could make you look bad if she reports knowing you to her boss and you aren't up front.

i've left him a message and sent him an email requesting a quick chat at his convenience. she's not in my subject so i'm hoping she won't have anything to do with me...

my mum's a teacher and takes trainees, i know what you mean about how hard it is to fail someone - she had a completely bonkers guy once from somewhere in africa, it became clear his plans were being done by his mrs because he hadn't a clue about them when he had to talk them through, and accused his uni tutor of "trying to make him gay" ? they only managed to get rid of him because my mum had kept notes of how he hadn't met any of the targets and refused to take guidance.... which is suppose is reassuring!