Tag: school
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The OCD teacher
This is a massive confession and one that some people might consider to be ridiculous – but it is a real issue and one I am happy to share because I know I’m not the only teacher with this challenge in their daily classroom practise. If you ask any teacher whether they have a ritual…
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“Mum,”
I am called “Mum” by the children in my class, on average, once a week. I don’t remember ever calling my teachers mum when I was at school. It’s possible that I did, without realising, and my teachers were kind enough to just ignore my mistake. As a teacher, being called mum is either a…
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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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Christmas Show tantrums.
It’s that time of year again. Where teachers have a constant loop of Christmas songs playing in their heads. It isn’t even December yet, and we still manage to find the songs playing, dimly, in the backgrounds of our brains. This year, we haven’t gotten so far as even deciding which songs to sing whilst…
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