Tag: teaching
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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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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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“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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