Tag: teacher
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The Happy Teacher Challenge
Whilst mooching on Pinterest© over the Christmas holidays, I came across this pin which highlighted a challenge to make your inner teacher happy. At first, I asked myself a few questions: 1. Is there such thing as a happy teacher? (Jokes, I’m sure I have been happy a few times in my career as a…
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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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Chief meerkat broke me today.
He was bubbling all day yesterday but managed to pull himself together before lunch, to avoid a detention. In the afternoon, he continued his reign of terror by messing around, disturbing other children and bossing them about. He had no idea what we were doing, yet seemed to have an undying urge to reveal his…
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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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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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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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Talking to a brick wall
My mum used to always say she’d get more use from talking to a brick wall, than if she talked to me. Apparently, I never used to listen to her? Today, I understood how she felt and it wasn’t the first time it’s happened. I know that I’m already very much like my mum in…
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