A day in the life

We will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Beatles album Sgt Peppers this week, and it seems very appropriate that my third year students should create a celebratory video with the same title as one of its tracks. My ICT and Computing specialists on the B.Ed Primary education programme will be leaving Plymouth University in the next few weeks to take up their first jobs in schools. To say goodbye, they invited my colleague James Bettany and I to take part in the recording of a spoof video, sending up just about everything we've ever done and experienced together over the last 3 years.

I hope you will agree it is a funny, witty and satirical look at higher education in general, and although you may not get some of the inside jokes, you will appreciate the slapstick at least! I'm going to miss teaching this bunch, and I wish them every success in the future in whatever they decide to do. So bon voyage to Charlotte, Hannah, Jess, Edward, Aaron, Tom, Jody, Georgia, Chloe, Claire, Lucy, Emily, Natasha and Frances - go and have great careers in teaching. Go out and make the difference!

Here's the video, which we all hope you will enjoy:


Photo from the video by Aaron Worth


A day in the life by Steve Wheeler was written in Liberec, Czech Republic and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.