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Be careful how you say what you say.
I was once without a TA for an afternoon when two boys in my year 3 class bumped heads. As young boys do, a race began to see who could get back to their table the quickest, but I didn’t know about this until after they had bumped heads and I asked why they were…
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The Zoo Keeper.
My job title may say teacher, but there is a wide variety of other titles that could go along with it… For example, some days you can feel less like a teacher and more like an actual zoo keeper. You could quite easily look around my classroom, on a far from Mary Poppins afternoon, to…
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Let’s be honest…
A few weeks ago, I decided to have a very grown up conversation with my class during a PSHE lesson. I asked them to be honest with me so that I could be honest with them. It ended up with me admitting that I get scared in school sometimes. Twenty seven little faces looked back…
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Pediculus humanus capitis.
In other words, nits!! This is going back quite a few years now. I was tidying up at the end of a long day and I remember feeling a tickle on my ear so I started scratching it. When the itching stopped, I pulled my finger away. Only when I looked at my finger nail,…
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Cold baked beans.
I ordered a hot dinner today, expecting to be able to eat it whilst it was hot. Silly me. I completely forgot that I needed to follow his lordship around school in a circle for 15 minutes, before I would be able to sit down and eat my cold jacket potato. It all started when…
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Roman style
I have many hidden talents, and one of them is that I can write awesome parodies to popular songs. It comes in handy for class assemblies and performances for themed weeks. One year, my year 3 class had to do an assembly in front of key stage 2 classes and my children’s parents. Our topic…
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Teaching on your birthday
🎉🎼Happy Birthday to you…🎼🎂 It’s my birthday today and I’ve had to teach my class allllllll day for the first time since I graduated as a teacher. I’ve only ever had to teach my class for a Friday afternoon, after a morning of PPA. The other birthdays have been on the weekend or a whole…
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“Don’t pick your nose.”
I’ve lost count how many times I’ve told children to stop picking their nose. Especially his lordship. My dad used to tell my younger sister, our cousins and I that if we picked our noses, we might pull the wrong string and our eyes would fall out. I say this to children in school and…
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Smelly Lelli-kellys
Over the weekend, I visited my friend and 4 nieces for niece number 2’s 7th birthday. First thing, I knocked on the door and heard “Nana’s here!” I felt offended. Niece number 1 (the oldest toe rag) thought I was her fifty year old Nana! When I walked through the door, I was greeted with…
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Be careful what you say… in front of your TA!
I was in my NQT year. I was teaching an ordinary Year 3 English lesson about descriptive writing. We were focussing our writing on Harry Potter and his battle against “he who shall not be named”. The children were struggling to write about it so I started rambling on about what the children could write…
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