I'm a healthy 24 year old and I just feel permanently exhausted during the working week. I get home and basically collapse. HOW do you super men and women get home after a full day teaching and take care of a family because I can barely take care of myself 😂😂😂😂
Oh my heart. I told the class yesterday I was feeling very sad and upset with how unkind they were being to each other and I had a very bad day dealing with all their hurtful incidents. One of the quietest, kindest little cherubs handed me this today. So thoughtful. 🥺🥺🥺
We may have put it up a week early then we are suppose to but look at my ACE classroom door courtesy of my amazing TA. Primary school is such a magical time at Christmas. (Also bloody exhausting but let's focus on the positives😂)
Two girls in my class protested they 'don't like books' and when I asked what they do like they said fashion. These will be waiting for them Monday and hopefully be the start of a reading journey. 🤞🏼📚
Last weeks tired teacher meal prep proved a hit. This week we have loaded wedges. 🥔🍅🫑🧀
Chop potatoes, put in oven with seasoning for 45-60 minutes. Sauté red onion & garlic, add low fat beef mince and fajita seasoning. Top with chop veg and cheese. 😍
I can honestly say the most stressful part of my job recently has been parents and parent communication. It is so easy to forget that teachers are just humans working their socks off trying to do their best by every child.
Today Y6 became history detectives & started investigating the question ‘Is the Sainsbury’s 2014 Christmas advert an accurate representation of the 1914 Christmas Truce?’ They analysed primary and secondary sources and took notes. Can’t wait to read their final, written answers🕵🏼♀️
Short teacher friends who can never find wide-legged trousers at the right length, I have made a great discovery. M&S have these amazing and comfy 'cropped' trousers in different patterns but they're not cropped for my 5ft 1 frame and make the perfect summer trousers 🤣
My class are loving game show revision: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire from TES,
@primaryteachew
's House of Games and
@MrBoothY6
's Million Pound Drop. They have asked for more so my turn to contribute to the collection. Enjoy Year 6 maths 1% club!
3 months into teaching spelling through phonics in Y6 as part of my appraisal and 71% of the children have increased their score using the 2017 SATs spelling test. The biggest increase is +7 with an average score change of +2. Wish I started at the start of the year!
Night four of the residential. Beyond exhausted and covered in bites and bruises but the children have had fun and made memories to last a lifetime. That's why we do it😅😩💤
Writing moderation. 4 night residential. Sports Day. Year 6 production. Raising Aspiration course. Transition days and forms. Swimming catch ups. Y6 leavers party. Keep teaching the curriculum. See you in 7 weeks folks 😅
Also another one. She is 1 mark off passing reading. She clearly understands the vocabulary!!!😡 I assume because it says 'copy one word' but under the pressure and time stakes she has put two. Worth an appeal?
'Miss they forgot to include the coordinates grid' - three children last week! Feels great to be able to have a moan openly now the papers are released 😂
This programme has highlighted the lack of appreciation the public have for ballet. The combination of strength, grace & technicality, how physically & mentally demanding it is as a sport, the hours spent training & practising. He was bloody phenomenal!
#TheGreatestDancer
@BBCOne
Once you get out of routine with exercise and the gym it is so hard to get back into it, especially with long days for Ofsted and parents' evenings plus the dark nights. Someone send me motivation please😩😩😩
This is Sandra. 10 minutes into break time she realises she is suppose to be on playground duty. She’s late again, late for the 4th week running.
#CatTeachers
Anyone else's classroom looking like a jumble sale with all the Year 6 production props? (Yes those are sausage, chips, fishfingers and beans by my clever TAs😂🫶🏼)
@GMB
@KatyRickittITV
Horrified at how insensitive these comments are - most from people who don't even teach! Nobody is saying schools should not be inspected. The system needs a huge change. Why do schools need a label? A simple report with strengths & areas of improvement would do the job.
Wishing all Year 6 teachers a peaceful night sleep. We know we have worked hard, have done everything we can for the children & have seen the fab progress made already. What will be will - hopefully they pull it out the bag. May the SATs odds be ever in your favour 🤞🏼🙏🏼🌟
10 days in an Amber country complete. The whole trip has cost the same if not less than hotel quarantine prison! Just a covid test and one more night sleep between me and seeing my friends, family and dog in the UK 🥺🥺🥺
@HughJRichards
One of my children stole my IWB remote. Another child asked if he can show me a cool update with the board. The second child proceeded to say 'board on' 'board off' and I was mega impressed when the board responded. Few minutes later the penny dropped 😂
@LeanneHteacher
I used this blog from the fab
@ReBuckEdu
and
@_MissieBee
and grouped all the UKS2 curriculum words into sounds and in some instances added topic words in too and planned very similar lessons. It's still very much in experimental stages for me at the mo x
I got the job woooooo! I'm coming home! I will truly miss Dubai and all the wonderful people I've worked with but so excited for new beginnings and the next chapter in my career. 🤩🇬🇧
Determined to make the children be kinder to each other. Who would have thought Day 2 of the kindness challenge and the second child to be lavished in compliments to take home would make such a difference, such a lovely community ethos today!✨
@primaryteachew
This profession is happy to take your time when it's residentials, parents evenings, school fairs, performances discos ect but not give back when needed 😞😞
@gtothet123
Saying 'she believes everything I say' in the most patronising way is a huge judge of character beyond the game. Could have been phrase much better like 'she won't suspect me'.
@BerlieDoherty
check out the start of our diary entries from the point of view of Jim in Chapter 1 of Street Child. We are excited to publish them like a Victorian diary. (Thank you to
@Teacherglitter
for the paragraph strip idea! Loved it)
Popped into school this morning for a couple of hours to get organised for the first day back. Managed to mark some literacy books, change a display and do a bit of planning. First and last time working this Easter hols 🙌🏼
In Tesco looking like an actual toe after the gym, no makeup, sweaty, glam as ever and I hear, ‘Look Mum, that’s my new teacher!’ No no no no no, head down and fast pace walk away, never walked so quick in my life😂😂😂
I love Twitter! Can’t wait to share with Y6 that the historical advisor for the Sainsbury’s ad has seen their history lesson & shared all his incredible, factual knowledge about The Christmas Truce, even offered to mark the books🤣 (31 books coming your way) Thank you Taff.
My school in Dubai finished for summer on the 5th July. I've not worked for 8.5 weeks and rather enjoyed the lady of leisure life a little too much🤣 Today is however the day I'm back in the classroom. Looking forward to new beginnings 🤩
A negative PCR has finally landed in my email which means a successful pit stop in Prague for 3 days before journeying back to Dubai on the 30th for the last leg of international teaching 🙌🏻
Had a random craving for blueberry buckle cake (my school in Dubai use to sell a gorgeous one and I haven't had it in over two years) so whipped one up and boy did I deliver 🤤🫐🍰
Easy meal prep inspo for tired teachers🤣 1/2 pack of microwave rice (do not heat); any veg; chicken, onion, garlic with any stir fry sauce. Pop two in the freezer. It does mean having the same lunch all week but that doesn't bother me. I mix it up with different fruit & snacks.
I'm not sure who needs to hear it but this time next week we will all be beaming knowing we have a bank holiday Monday the next day. Three day weekend coming up!
I know the teacher pension is ridiculously good and I will benefit in the future but I wince a little every pay day seeing the huge deduction I won't benefit from for at least 30 years. 😭😭😭
I know this is doing it's rounds on Twitter but I am shocked at how good it is. Game changer and huge time saver. It definitely has some limitations but an incredible tool.
After getting myself into some right Twitter spats today (note to self - don't comment on any news about education), one of the major problems in the UK is that the public thinks because they went to school/have a child a school they know what teaching is like and how to teach.
@Mattpayne22
This is why I won’t share anything I’ve created in my classroom or for lessons because I’m so unnerved about others having a negative judgement. I love ed twitter but that is certainly its biggest downfall. My mum always said if you have nothing nice to say, don’t say anything!
Trying not be annoyed about the orange tint of the tracing paper but so happy with how our published setting descriptions turned out or the Guatemalan Jungle using The Curse of The Maya as our stimulus. 🤩
Last day of school today and first year in Dubai complete! I'm probably about half a stone heavier and on the brink of exhaustion but that is definitley up there with one of the best years of my life. Happy end of term UAE, have a cracking summer💫
Can’t believe how much I’ve learnt just from the first chapter of
@TheWritingRevol
. Going to start by embedding in the conjunction activities through warm ups. I’m intrigued to see if they really understand the meaning of different conjunctions.