fun at shakespeare’s globe
The kids stare in awe
As the actors are slaughtered,
Blood is splattered
And the gift shop is raided.
Category: work it girl
the knitting circle
I started a crochet club at school today and it was so much fun. I felt like a few teachers were rolling their eyes and thinking it wasn’t very
Read More...the monsters are coming
We finally got the call from OFSTED today, so everyone was running around likecrazy people getting ready to have everything gone through
Read More...first job nerves
My son is takinga year out between college and university so he is currently applying for his first job. He didn’t bother getting a weekend
Read More...a gift for the teacher
We have entered the final week of term and some of my students are off on holiday slightly early, so I received my first end of term gift
Read More...the spelling bee
I’m organising a spelling bee for the kids at school next week, and I’m a little bit nervous that hardly anyone will turn up. What if we are done
Read More...mean girls
We are getting towards the end of the school year here and everyone is starting to get a little bit tetchy. My tutor group are just completing
Read More...the water sports school trip
I’m off on my first water sports school trip tomorrow and I’m a little bit scared. Just picture 90 crazy twelve year olds piling into a lake while
Read More...Sssssshhhhh
Shush, please,
I said shush,
Can you be quiet, please?
I said SILENT READING!
He shouted just a bit ironically.
His voice must hurt
His pride is dented by
Kids that treat him just like dirt.
There is a cover teacher that is often in the room next to me and I feel so sorry for him. Cover teachers have a notoriously difficult time because the kids don’t see them as a ‘proper’ teacher and so they just get treated like dirt.
This guy that is in the next room to me seems to have the sole job of ensuring the students do silent reading and the noise level suggests that everything but silent reading is happening on the other side of that wall.
Bless him. And to all those children who are making his life a misery, I hope that one or two of you become teachers and realise just how demonic you seem to us!
Much Love
Rachel xx
it’s all in a word
Does the how or why
Even make it worse?
And if I take don’t
And swap it with do not
Will it change the way you feel?
And will this be hurtful
Or will that be the one to seal the deal?
I had a rubbish day yesterday because a student made a comment that just hit the wrong spot. It’s happened before and I’m sure it will happen many times over and over. But the interesting thing is that I’m now finding myself very analytical of what has been said and why it might have had such an impact.
I really can’t remember what the student said – it was one of two very similar things – and I don’t know which is worse, or why I even care so much.
The two options were (as she stormed out of the room) ‘I don’t know why you’re even a teacher?’ or ‘I don’t know how you’re even a teacher?’ I’ve told the story so many times in my own head, I now have no idea.
Would I rather she insults my intelligence, or how genuine I am? It’s really made me think about how I repeat stories to other people and if I screw up on just one word, I could completely skew the way the other person is perceived.
On a lighter note, I have been seriously asking myself why I am a teacher, and I’m sure that most teachers would answer ‘God only knows’!
Much Love
Rachel xx