Pass With Adrian Driving School

25/10/2026

My job title is Driving Instructor.
The rest of the job description wouldn’t fit on my car. 🚗😉

Some lessons I’m teaching clutch control. Others I’m negotiating with a left foot that’s apparently handed in its notice, while reassuring someone that stalling hasn’t ruined their entire future.

22 years in, still teaching people to drive and reminding them to breathe and relax their shoulders…

Preferably at the same time. ❤️

I wouldn’t change it for the world 🥰

Sheena Ahmed
Motorvation school of Motoring

12/10/2026

TWO MONTHS WITH A LICENCE. ALREADY HAVING THE CAR TAKEN AWAY. 🚔

Some people pass their test and immediately decide they’re auditioning for Fast & Furious: Merseyside Drift.
The examiner has barely put the clipboard down and apparently they’ve become a professional racing driver.

According to the police update shared, officers responding to complaints of anti-social driving spotted this VW Polo travelling at high speed and being driven erratically. The driver had held their licence for just two months. Officers stopped the vehicle and seized it under Section 59.

Two months. You’re still learning how to drive independently, yet already giving the neighbourhood a reason to ring the police.

Passing your test doesn’t mean you’ve finished learning.
It means you’ve reached the standard to continue learning without your instructor beside you.
That empty passenger seat should mean more responsibility, not less restraint.

Build your experience by reading the road, keeping sensible space and recognising hazards early. Pressing an accelerator takes very little skill. Knowing when to ease off takes judgement.

Other people shouldn’t have to gamble with their safety while you find out that your confidence is several miles ahead of your ability.

You worked hard for your freedom.
Don’t turn your first few months of driving into an introduction to the recovery truck.

Credit: Merseyside Police 🚔

11/10/2026

08/10/2026

LET THE SKILLS BECOME AUTOMATIC. KEEP THE BRAIN ON DUTY.

A follower raised an interesting point about driving habits: not everything we do automatically behind the wheel is bad.

That’s absolutely right. An experienced driver shouldn’t need an internal committee meeting to find second gear or operate the indicator. Familiar car controls become practised skills, freeing up attention for what’s happening outside.

The problem starts when our assumptions become automatic too.
“I know this junction.”
“Nobody’s ever there.”
“I don’t normally bother signalling here.”

Now we’ve gone from knowing how to operate the car to deciding what’s on the road before we’ve actually looked.

Your hands might know the route. They haven’t checked whether someone’s walking home from work.

There’s a difference between a useful routine and a lazy assumption. Getting into the habit of checking your mirrors is useful. Glancing at them without taking in what’s there is going through the motions. The mirror isn’t a clocking-in machine. You don’t get credit simply for showing it your face.

Signalling needs thought too. Who needs to know what you’re about to do? Remember pedestrians and cyclists, not just the car behind. Is your signal clear, correctly timed and unlikely to mislead?
“I can’t see anyone” also deserves a second question: is there somewhere someone could be that I can’t currently see?

There are situations, such as moving off, where observation may establish that a signal would benefit nobody. That is different from routinely failing to signal at junctions. Follow the Highway Code guidance for the manoeuvre you’re making, and keep observing.
Clicking the indicator doesn’t complete your responsibilities.

One part of the follower’s comment I would challenge is choosing to cut a corner because it appears clear. The Highway Code specifically says not to cut the corner when turning right. We can make a poor decision consciously too. Thinking about it doesn’t automatically make it sound.

What I want my learners to develop is familiar, confident car control alongside active observation and good judgement.
Same junction. Different day. Different people. Different risks.

Learn the controls so well that you have more attention available for the road.
Then actually use that attention.

Which driving actions feel automatic to you now, and what do you deliberately remind yourself to check?

Sheena Ahmed
Motorvation School of Motoring

08/10/2026

⚙️ HOW A CLUTCH WORKS! ⚙️
Ever wondered what actually happens when you step on the clutch pedal in a manual car? It is a brilliant piece of mechanical engineering that connects your engine to the wheels! 🚗💨
Here is the simple breakdown:
• 🟢 Clutch Engaged (Pedal Up): The Pressure Plate clamps the Clutch Disc tightly against the spinny Flywheel. Engine power transfers smoothly to the wheels.
• 🔴 Clutch Disengaged (Pedal Down): The Release Bearing pushes into the diaphragm spring, pulling the pressure plate away. The clutch disc separates, meaning No Power goes to the wheels so you can switch gears safely.
Knowing how it works helps you treat your transmission with respect and avoid burning out your clutch! 🔧
Can you smoothly drive a manual transmission stick shift? Drop a YES or NO in the comments! 👇👇

06/10/2026

ARE YOU READY FOR YOUR PRACTICAL DRIVING TEST? 🚘

Having a test booked and being ready to take it are two different things. A date in your diary cannot do your observations, judge a gap or stop you pulling out in front of someone.
I understand the pressure of waiting for a test. But the question isn’t just, “Could I pass?” It’s, “Can I drive safely when nobody beside me is helping?”

Without instructions, reminders or intervention, can you consistently:

✅ Move off safely, checking properly for anyone you might affect?

✅ Control the car smoothly, choosing suitable gears if you’re learning in a manual?

✅ Plan your braking, rather than arriving at every junction as though it has just appeared out of thin air?

✅ Use your mirrors to gather information and act on it? Looking is only useful if you understand what you’ve seen.

✅ Follow signs and sat nav directions, choose suitable lanes and change position safely?

✅ Miss a turning and continue safely, rather than treating the sat nav like an emergency services dispatcher?

✅ Choose a suitable speed for the road, weather, visibility and traffic, within the limit?

✅ Understand traffic lights, filter arrows, signs and markings, responding to what is actually displayed rather than guessing what comes next?

✅ Approach roundabouts at a speed that gives you time to observe, judge a safe opportunity and maintain your lane through to the exit?

✅ Notice developing hazards pedestrians near parked cars, a cyclist ahead, a junction hidden by a van and adjust before they become urgent?

✅ Complete your manoeuvres with control and effective observations, responding when someone approaches?

✅ Recover calmly from a stall or a small mistake without letting it unravel the rest of your drive?

These are examples, not the whole syllabus. Readiness means doing the whole job consistently, including on roads you haven’t memorised.

If your instructor is still regularly saying “mirrors”, “slow down”, “watch that pedestrian” or “wait”, those prompts are doing part of the driving for you. On test day, you need to make those decisions yourself.

DVSA’s readiness checklist includes driving without prompts, avoiding serious or dangerous mistakes, passing mock tests, practising ways to manage nerves and having your instructor’s agreement that you’re ready.

You do not have to feel completely fearless. You do need ways to manage your nerves so you can keep observing, thinking and making safe decisions.

Here’s another question: would you feel ready to make a journey independently the day after passing, with people you care about in the car?

The responsibility starts when you take control of the vehicle. It doesn’t wait until you feel experienced.

Come to lessons rested and prepared where possible. Keep your learning consistent, discuss anything you’re struggling with and reflect honestly on your progress. If you have suitable private practice, make it varied and work with your instructor so you reinforce safe habits.

Parents and friends: encouragement helps. “Just have a go” is not an assessment of someone’s driving.

There is no shame in needing more preparation. I would rather help someone become ready than send them into a test hoping the examiner doesn’t notice what we already know needs work.

Learn steadily. Build independence.
Give yourself the best chance of leaving with both a pass certificate and the skills to use it safely.

I teach people to drive for life.
The test is one milestone along the way. 🫶🏾

Sheena Ahmed
Motorvation School of Motoring

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17/06/2026

Congratulations to Oscar on passing his driving test at Gateshead first time today with 4 minor faults.
From being a bundle of nerves at the start to getting that PASS im so chuffed for you.
Finished his A Levels yesterday and Passing your driving test today, it's time for you to relax and chill now!
All the best for the future and happy safe driving 🚗 ☺️