Is it possible to have a work life balance when leading a school or for that matter when teaching in one? #SLTchat produces a frenetic thirty minutes of tweets, re-tweets, likes and comments. Maybe the people who give up a Sunday evening to be part of it are not best placed to comment; it’s a lovely irony. Continue reading
Starting back to the new half term, with an INSET Day, I enjoyed the usual free cup of tea and biscuit at break followed by a lunch of jacket potato and chicken curry and then had my first ever flu jab. All of these are provided as additional perks for staff. Continue reading
This is one of the blog posts that is really a “note to self”. Year 2, 6, 11 & 13 teachers are all busy marking mock papers, prepping for early SATs or those at the normal time, analysing gaps in pupils learning, writing reports and all this alongside the usual planning of lessons and marking demands for other classes or subjects. Continue reading