Nostalgia Interviews With Chris Deacy

My guest this week is Sarah Blackman, a University of Kent alumnus, whom I taught a few years ago on the BA Religious Studies programme. Sarah told her mother at the age of five that she wanted to be a primary school teacher, and three decades later she has fulfilled her ambition. She tells us what initially stopped her along the way from realizing her dreams. Sarah is from Ashford and she shares her childhood memories of sitting on a balloon and it popping as well as not wanting to go to a boy’s party and the power games that children play around invitations, and we discuss the differences between children’s behaviour at school and at home. Sarah recalls doing her homework to the sound of Mark Goodier counting down the charts on Radio 1 and the skills of categorising and classifying information. We also find out what her reaction was when she learned that S Club 7 had beaten Madonna to reach number 1 in the singles charts. We talk about her experiences of school and Sarah tells us why her RE supply