Category: education
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Rocky the Elf’s payback!
‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the land, not a teacher was stirring, on their journey to dreamland. The stockings were hung with precision and care…in the hopes that some more booze would be waiting in there. The teachers were nestled, all snug in their beds, tomorrow they’d surely be nursing sore heads!…
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The desk II
Well, it has been a whole term. My desk-keeping ways haven’t changed. I realised, as I was packing my laptop away last night, that my desk was literally covered in dust and the pile of papers was sliding across onto the laptop… I spent 30 minutes sifting through the papers. Keep, file, bin, shred… Packed…
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If I were a snowman at night…
In the weeks leading up to Christmas, I’ve had to keep my class busy. We’re not ones for sitting down and watching DVDs so it’s been this activity and that activity non-stop. We’ve made Christmas cards, calendars, pasta wreaths, cornflakes wreaths, salt dough tree decorations, gingerbread men, coloured in, watched a few DVDs and written…
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One day more…
If I had more energy right now, I’d whack out a parody to the Les Miserables epic song. But it’s 19:02 and I’ve just woken up from a nap that probably started about 2.5 hours ago!? We have one more day left until we break up for the shortest Christmas holiday of my life. The…
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Night Nurse Nightmares (episode 1)
When I’m sick, night nurse is the only medicine that can knock the flu out of me, and knock me out too. The only problem is that night nurse gives me some strange dreams. I’ve had many strange dreams whilst on the night nurse and decided in October that I should probably write them down.…
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Pinocchio
As a teacher, you try and instil honest morals within the children you teach. But sometimes, Pinocchio just doesn’t learn his/her lesson. I have several Pinocchios in my class. They lie to me often, mainly to get out of being in trouble. Even when they have seen me, see them, do what they are about…
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Poetry problems.
There’s something about poetry that children find tricky. I’ve always had a natural flare for poetry and writing. Ever since I was in year 3, when I wrote a rhyming poem about an autumn leaf. In year 8, RE, I wrote a poem about bullying that grabbed the attention of the Reverend teacher. She asked…
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Beaming with pride.
I had a day of PPA today. I was still in school to pop in, now and then, on my little cherubs, but I wasn’t in the classroom with them. They had a lovely cover teacher today, but I made it seem like she was going to be horrible to them if they didn’t behave.…
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A Local Authority nightmare
What do you do when the Local Authority are in school, and a child from your class has literally just jumped down onto the other side of the school gate, which is locked!? I’ll tell you what I did. I closed my eyes and waited to hear a car screech. And when I heard it,…
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Like Bambi on ice.
My darling nieces had a joint birthday party in September. They had no idea what they wanted for their birthdays so I asked them if they’d like to go ice skating one weekend? They jumped for joy and were adamant they’d love it. So we went today… a few months after we’d decided to go,…
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