The Exasperated Teacher Blog UK

As a teacher, you often find yourself feeling like you have an entire class full of little monkeys. Occasionally, you find yourself teaching an angelic child that no matter what they do, it’s always the right thing or just perfectly, honest goodness. I have a young man who I am officially naming my Golden Child…

I am so happy to declare that I actually have some wonderful writers this year.  Whilst writing descriptions, some of my class managed to use the WAGOLL that we reviewed to inspire them to write their own journey descriptions.  Soooome… were even inspired by the WASOLL! They used the good ideas in it (only they…

Today I met my new class and got a real taste for some of the new characters. Halfway through this afternoon, one of them really, really, really, really, really wanted to go to the toilet whilst another child was in the toilet at the same time.  I explained why he couldn’t go so he went…

It’s been a long old 3 years. I’m leaving my school for new adventures in a new school, and have said most of my goodbyes, I know that I will see many of my friends and colleagues again soon so it’s not goodbye, it’s see you later.  Two of those years has been with my…

Today, my class have spent an amazing day with their new teacher. After suffering with my awful jokes, random requests, stories and day to day bossiness for almost 2 years, they are more than ready for a new teacher. Despite what they might think. I’ve spent two weeks building up to today, preparing them and…

In the current education climate, it is very difficult to be positive about the job. The hours are long, the work is relentlessly tiring and support is somewhat lacking from the higher powers that be. When I look at all of the Instagram posts of teachers in the USA and Australia, it seems, to me,…

If only my body was a true representation of the amount of exercise I do in my classroom:  Walking around the maze of tables, Hurdling over those untucked chairs, Squatting down to hear “little” secrets and stories,  Squatting even lower to retie shoelaces or refasten shoe buckles, Catching those flying pencils, mid air,  The quick…

Today I managed to do something that I’ve wanted to do for a long time with my class. The weather, today, has allowed us to have some spare time (playtime, but the children didn’t really notice) to finally get round to doing it. Thank goodness for rainy days and wet playtimes!  So I introduced the…

Since they have become the latest nuisance in the classroom, four have disappeared from my class. I know I have some light fingered tea leafs in the class, but unfortunately, the children still insist on bringing these into school.  A letter was sent home last week, from the school to parents, with clear instructions that…

Lets play a little game. Let’s see how many times I’ve likely muttered/internally screamed “WTF?!” to myself this afternoon… Tigger has been on an absolute trip, so far, this week. He had two brilliant days at the end of last week…the best 2 days he’s ever had. I thought I had a new Tigger. A…