I should explain the title of this one first. It’s a label that was offered to the group of new faces at the event I’ll describe below as an alternative to “the usual suspects” I don’t think I’ve blogged much about my work towards Chartered Teacher status. I will, once it’s all finished and I […]
The One With All the Negativity
This advert popped up on my social media feed today: My response: I’ve been a teacher for 16 years and worked in many schools. I’m respected (in the main) and valued. I’m happy. I spend time with my children and husband at the weekends. I’m free to be me. There’s too much negative press about […]
The One About The Right to be Remembered
I’m going to utter 4 letters that are currently striking fear into the minds of Headteachers everywhere. No, not SATs. GDPR. There have been many posts on social media with GDPR myths – no names on displayed work, no named trays in classrooms, no named peg labels, no birthday displays…. It’s not these aspects of […]
The One With the Knowledge
No, I’m not becoming a London taxi driver (or a pilot, but that’s another story!) This week, OFSTED’s Head of Research Prof Daniel Muijs is reported to have offered his opinion that teachers should be “periodically” required to demonstrate their subject knowledge is up to date (read more here ) His comments have met with […]
The One About Workload
I don’t write often enough, and I certainly don’t write enough about things that matter. Today, I’m thinking about my work. And specifically my workload. I teach. I’m contracted for 13.5 hours over 2.5 days. And yet my children attend nursery for 30 hours on my three teaching days. How come they are there for […]
Protected: The One That Explains What I Do
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The one about standing up for education
This blog post is a first for me. I usually write about the mundane aspects of life – pies, gardening, family life…. Today I want to tell you a story. A short but sad story. Today (March 26th) NUT members across England walked out in protest at the massive changes to our pay, pension and […]
The one with the new job
Started last week and all is going well.. so far! Work has led me to tick off another item from my list… No 74 – Volunteer for something I wouldn’t normally do. I’ve taken on a couple of new responsibilities at work, which I think would count… It’s a subject area I wouldn’t normally have […]
The one from the new classroom
Well, almost! I’m off to school today to set up my new room! Progress on my 101 so far goes like this – one task completed (no 30), two tasks partially completed (73 and 88) No 73 – I spent a lot of yesterday scanning books to catalogue them – I have 195 so far! […]