Category: education
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The Bermuda Triangle
I know that in a few weeks time, I’ll be teaching my class all about the different triangles in maths. I’ve been practising saying iscoceles for a while, in preparation. The Bermuda Triangle is one of those mysterious triangles that still confuses me. Apparently, the Bermuda Triangle is in the western part of the North…
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Golden time
Children love it. Teachers love it even more because they can get a few jobs finished before home time on a Friday afternoon! My class generally earn their golden time. They collect gems on their tables and as a class, they can pull all of their gems together for minutes of golden time or they…
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Monsters under the bed.
When I was younger, the scariest thing to deal with was the monsters under the bed. Now, the scariest thing children have to deal with are the real monsters, in the real world. I came across a writing prompt on Pinterest © this evening and it made me realise that I am a monster under…
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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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