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Co Headteacher. Mum of 1. SLE Assessment. Curriculum Designer. Passionate about PE & School Sport. Work/Life Balance.
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Just packed most of my suitcase for holiday & then spent 30mins cleaning & tidying my room so it’s all nice for when I get back. Does anyone else do this or am I just mad?
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Just found out an ‘outstanding’ school in my area is having the SLT observing ‘live’ lessons for teachers performance management. I can tell you now, there is nothing outstanding about that leadership.
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I saw people wondering why
@marksandspencer
are going after Cuthbert & not the other cakes, so I made a caterpillar collage to spot the differences.
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My local Sainsbury’s have removed the clear screens between each self service till. Whilst I understand restrictions have been lifted, I find it odd that you would actively remove a physical measure which helps to keep people safe.
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When I was a child we got one Easter egg each. According to my personal social media in 2022 friends & family are getting their children Easter hampers with numerous sweet treats, cuddly toys, games and Easter clothes. Since when was Easter the new Christmas?
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My single mum Y6 teachers 5yo’s school is closed due to too many staff isolating. Today he was in her classroom, with his laptop & headphones doing his remote live lessons while she taught her class at the same time. The Y6s were so quiet to make sure he could hear his teacher.❤️
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No, she’s not a boy.
Yes, she’s wearing blue.
Yes, it’s a tracksuit.
Yes, she looks very lovely.
Gender specific baby clothes are bollox.
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Today I very nearly thought we were failing our kids by not doing live lessons. Then I remembered; large families, shared devices, lack of internet, lack of of English, living in multi-occupancy/sublet rooms & living in outhouses.
We are doing our very best.
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Office: Morning, just calling to ask why…isn’t in school today?
Parent: Didn’t know school started today.
O: Oh what date did you have?
P: I didn’t have a date.
O: So when were you going to send your child?
Silence.
About 10 families. Pls tell me it was not just our school.
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Staff members household member tested +ve Tues. We asked staff member to not return until 7 days of LFTs done. Today was day 5, she just tested +ve. Imagine how many of our school community we protected. Budget taken a hit but safety first. Decision making pressure all time high.
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I really like my job. I really like my school. But I also really like Fridays.
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Heard of a HT who won’t allow a staff member paid LOA for funeral of a family member bcos the family member isn’t a ‘near relative’ despite this person not having many ‘near relatives’ so this ‘further relative’ behaved like a ‘near relative.’ HTs like this giving us a bad name.
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@Missy_E36
That is insane and considering the cost of electricity these days, the school might need to re-think their policy on this.
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On the day iPads came back in stock to order from the DfE, someone arrived 2.2 weeks early b4 I was even on mat leave… luckily they still had our allocation available that evening so got it in. Might be a bit busy for a while
#edutwitter
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34 school get ups until Covid year is over. Not sure what this half term will bring but I hope it is bubble closure free, sunny, happy and positive for us all.
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I just told my husband that his dinner smelled nice. Then I stopped. SMELLED NICE. As in.... I could smell it. With my nose. It’s a bloody Christmas miracle!
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As I lay awake from 3am with a baby who has been screaming all night & will only settle when on me, I sit and wonder…
Where does all the staffroom cutlery disappear to?!
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I entered a competition to win our staff 50 luxury doughnuts. We won. I’m collecting them tomorrow and I’m so excited to walk in proudly carrying the box to share with them all. 🍩🥇😋
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You know it’s going to be a classic SATs week when…
…they don’t use capital letters to write their name on the test paper. 🫣
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What is the lack of understanding about the following statement:
If you have COVID symptoms you need a PCR not an LFT.
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I don’t understand. They are colouring pencils. That’s the answer. There is no other answer. I am right.
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Two weeks of being a team of 3. Weird thinking my due date was this Thursday & instead we’ve been in a bubble of nappies, milk & dozing on the sofa.
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Remember last week when I spent £££ buying kitchen storage from John Lewis...? Well... before and after... ☺️
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It’s happened again... Everyone I know has started asking me if I know what is happening with schools next week.
No! Not one educational professional in the country knows what’s happening in schools next week other than what they continue to tell the media.
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Overwhelming majority of our teachers voted to have a whole day PPA every other week, taken at home if they wish. Same as we’ve done this year due to Covid but they want to keep it. Now all I have to do is timetable it. 🙄
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8.35am - Positive result. Excellent we can catch them as they come in & send them straight home.
8.40am-8.55am - All but 5 successfully sent home.
9.00am - False alarm negative result.
9.01am - ALL the emotions.
10.00am - All but 1 successfully back in school.
No.more.words.
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Letter meant to be going out today to tell parents which teachers their children have next year. Except I am a teacher down. I literally have no name to put on the letter. Not sure when I’ll even have a name.
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Teaching outside 🤣🤣🤣 Clearly these people have never been to an inner London school with a playground that doesn’t even fit the number on roll, or have a single blade of grass, let alone a whole field.
All we can do is laugh at this point!
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It is official... from September 2021 we will be moving to an Active School Uniform whilst ensuring that items are low cost and easy to find. Our website now has photos of all items with lists of retailers.
Thanks to all on
#edutwitter
who gave ideas when I posted last term!
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The whole idea of a staff summer uniform policy baffles me. We have no policy. We don’t even have a normal weather uniform policy. Our staff just dress sensibly. Never had any issues, been HT for nearly 5 years.
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You know when you try to be so inclusive for a child, do everything to keep them in school & not exclude them, including use school budget to pay for therapy & 1:1. Then other parents continuously complain, assume you are doing nothing & threaten to go to Ofsted. That’s Monday.😔
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We are following the government guidance & doing 3hrs for KS1 & 4hrs for KS2. Parents say this is too much & they can’t get through it. Shocker.
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Eeeeeek one of each of these for every pupil in the school to support them with Screen Free Activities. Thanks to
@TheWorksStores
for the 500 paint pallets! 🎨🤩☺️
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‘My child got a negative PCR, can he come back to school tomorrow?’
‘Yes, but when did you get the test done, we sent him home coughing on Friday.’
‘Oh, we only went yesterday because we had a family birthday on Saturday so didn’t have time.’
Please. Just please.
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This may never happen again anytime soon but for today at least, my 12 week old slept from 10.30pm - 5am, then from 6am - 7.30am. I’ll take that as a Passover miracle. 🥰
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Been on the watchlist for ages. Started yesterday whilst Teeny was shluffing. Not sure why it took me so long to start it but feel like it’s gonna be an emotional journey.
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Ahh the December pre-Xmas pay day… the one you need bcos you are broke from Xmas spending & the one that has to last you until the end of time.
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If we held just one minute of silence for every victim of the Holocaust then we would be silent for eleven and a half years. Never forget. Never again.
Millions of people around the world face prejudice and hostility simply because of their identity.
Today, on
#HolocaustMemorialDay
, join the nation in standing against hatred - light a candle in your window at 8pm.
Together, we'll remember all those murdered for who they were.
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I am SO tired.
My body is tired.
My brain is tired.
My eyes are tired.
My tired is tired.
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2 weeks ago we contacted a sleep consultant as we were at crisis level. This is the final update I sent in our WhatsApp group. The final step, leaving the room. We currently have a girl who sleeps in her cot at night for 11 hours & naps in her cot x2 a day for 30mins - 2 hours.
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Mario is 5. Mario is from El Salvador. Mario speaks Spanish. Mario arrived here during lockdown. Mario has never been to school before. Mario is super cute. I just told Mario to stop shoving wet paper towels in the sink and flooding it via google translate. Mario said ‘si’.
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Just got an email from the DfE with really clear & detailed guidance for schools after the announcement this evening! 😝
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Child’s dad was tested on Saturday after developing symptoms. Results came back yesterday, dad was positive. Child has been in school Mon & Tues.
WHAT IS NOT CLEAR???
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Two reasons we didn’t want to be HTs:
1. Having to sort out staff disagreements with each other.
2. Parents threatening us with solicitors (because a staff member didn’t greet them as they arrived at school).
We are having to deal with both at the moment and it’s so draining.
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Builders found this somewhere in the attic of school. Pretty awesome!
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It’s been a week since Baby Co Head got her CMPA diagnosis & started on Neocate (& Omeprazole):
- Reflux is gone.
- Smelly wind is gone.
- Screaming in pain when passing wind is gone.
Any crying is now either for milk, nappy, nap or 5pm-9pm colic.
She is a DIFFERENT child. 🥳
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Opinions like this are the reason many HTs lie awake at night worrying it is their attendance data that is going to put them in RI.
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They called.
They came.
They went.
Post Ofsted Dinner.
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First time seeing husband’s extended family since Covid. First time in 9 months someone has dared ask me ‘that question.’
HOW ABOUT STOP ASKING WOMEN WHEN THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE ANOTHER BABY BCOS ITS NONE OF YOUR BLOODY BUSINESS?!
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You’d think considering they want everyone to stay in tonight, they would have put something decent on TV for us to watch!
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Can we please add it as an option for KS2 languages please.
A new GCSE is in the works for 2025… British Sign Language (BSL)! 🙌
This new qualification will be open to all students who will learn how to use signs and the history of BSL.
Find out more ⬇️
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Does spending half term emailing yourself things to add to your to do list count as work?
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…and we made it. Off on our first holiday as a three & my first ever term time holiday. See you in 2 weeks U.K.! ☀️🕶🏖🛳
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Had to sort out an issue with Y5 today. They were ‘roasting’ each other in the playground. Two girls crying. The biggest insult that made them cry was that the boys called them ‘Karen.’ Although the boys initially lied and said they called them ‘carrots.’ 30mins of my day, gone.
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8.30am - Call GP
8.31am - Queue place reserved
8.39am - Receptionist calls back & adds me to triage list
8.52am - Triage GP calls back & prescription sent to the pharmacy to collect.
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Not really sure what to tweet this evening. Today was too much. Case after case, doing what we can to cut transmission. Outbreak should be replaced with the term ‘explosion.’ LA sending 500 LFT packs to our school tomorrow to hand out for Xmas. What a present.
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and so the parent emails begin…
no, not the ones reporting positive cases, the ones telling us they have all had to go abroad for emergencies and won’t be back until February.
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Results from Parent/Carer Remote Learning Survey were overwhelmingly positive. Yes, some want live lessons. But not all. Vast majority are happy with what we are doing. We will be introducing Screen Free Fridays from this week as they have requested it! ☺️☺️
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By 9.30am this morning we’d already had firefighters from x3 engines remove a child’s hand from a door and I managed to get to the bottom of which child stole the Nintendo DS from my office last week.
Fingers are fine. DS returned.
Just your average Monday in September. 🤦♀️
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All of Y6 going to Chessington in a few weeks except one as family are worried about Covid. 🥺 I’m not going this year and told her she can work with me all day and be my PA. She was excited. Ideas for jobs I could save for her?
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Has anyone moved towards an ‘active’ school uniform?
Bottom half tracksuit bottoms/leggings & trainers. Looking into it to utilise moments in the school day that can be more active, eg. Daily mile, fitness garden etc...
#edutwitter
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158 children.
40 adults.
6 classes.
3 different TfL routes.
All the snacks.
Singing, dancing, cheering & roaring with excitement.
New experiences.
Exhausted staff.
Trip to the Panto -
Completed it mate ✔️
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A staff member very nearly followed me into the toilet today to talk to me. Is a pee in peace not a thing anymore? Have to admit, stayed in there longer than I needed to. Just wanted a bit of quiet time.
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Walked into nursery this afternoon, her key worker looks at me and said, ‘Does she listen at home?’ 🤦♀️ I mean, she’s 21 months. She listens if she wants something and ignores you if it’s something she doesn’t want to do. Wish I could do that to be honest.
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8.30am: GP opens
8.33am: Caller no.1
Think I won Wednesday.
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Standard convo with husband…
H: Can you get the tape measure pls?
Me: Yup got it.
H: Can you find out what 15cm is in mm?
Me: (without checking the tape) 150mm.
H: Are you sure?
Me: Yes.
H: But you didn’t check the tape.
Me: I don’t understand what you are saying to me.
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My hairdresser just messaged me to ask if I can do 12th April in the morning. I think.. I THINK I might just cry! 💇♀️🥳
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2.5 weeks later and we have a bathroom transformation. ❤️
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Finally found what could end our 3 year Co Headship... yesterday she took a document I made about remote learning and changed the entire font from Arial to Tahoma.
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@MrsSmanwar
Our staff have PPA at home. One day every other week. They voted for that rather than half a day weekly. It actually means they get more than 10%. For all we know, they could be out having a jolly, as long as lessons are prepped, genuinely don’t mind.
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My husband just put on MOTD to just watch the Brentford highlights.
He was there, at the match, in real life. He witnesses the entire match. He has really good seats. He saw it all.
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Married at First Sight Australia has taken over my tv life for the last 8 weeks. It’s finishes tonight.
Love Island Australia S2 starts tonight on ITV2... will I be watching it? You can bloody bet I will!
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My husband just posed a very philosophical question for a Saturday morning…
‘At what age do you think the children realise that all the Mr Tumble characters are played by the same person?’
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My AHT has contacted x5 supply agencies this morning as we needed x1 to cover sickness. Agency had no one. They are all either unwell themselves or isolating before the holidays so they don’t get Covid.
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I get there seems to be some mad obsession with the Swift tour but I’m going to see
@Pink
tonight & it’s going to be bloody amazing!
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Teacher/Mum Life…
Are you even a teacher mum if you don’t walk into Tesco at 7am to grab a sandwich for lunch in between meetings/teaching and then walk out with that plus £50 in kids clothes?! 🤦♀️
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but there’s only 6 weeks until the end of term. (Cue everyone who finishes the week after telling me they’ve got longer than 6 weeks)
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Scenario: Ofsted are coming in the next 2 days. One of your teachers has a visit from another school for an obs as part of a job interview for 30mins on one of the days. It’s nearly the resignation deadline. Would you allow them to have the interview obs?
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You know what’s painful, watching a prison drama alongside someone who has worked in the prison service for 20 years and continuously points out what would and wouldn’t happen in real life.
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My dad is 60 and all he wanted was a rainbow vanilla buttercream cake… voila.
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At least 2 hours of every morning so far this half term is spent updating internal Covid spreadsheets, LA notification spreadsheets and sorting out which chn can be in and which can’t be in school. I eventually do some work after that point.
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Organised our first flexible working class share ready for Sept today. One teacher back from adoption leave 2 days & one down to 3 days so she can be there more for her little girl. Covid making staff re-evaluate what’s important to them & happy we have made it work.
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Some ppl think I’m being neurotic with the Covid visitor rules we have in place for my 26 day old… then someone visits & few days later they test +ve or don’t visit bcos they are a close contact & within a few days are +ve. I work in a school, I know how this virus works!
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Thursday Smile:
We appointed a reception teacher.
She’s wonderful.
We have a full staff for September!
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I’ve decided I’m going to try and post one thing from school everyday that made me smile bcos this job is really testing me.
Today was excellent meeting with my English Lead about fab changes he is going to make to our poetry curriculum next year.
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To you, this may just look like our pram… but if you look a little closer, you will see Teeny Girl… asleep… in the pram… for the 2nd morning I’m a row. This is an absolute achievement in our house & we’re feeling very chuffed with ourselves.
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So… parents… what’s this secret about? The one where we don’t tell new parents of newborns about the 4 month sleep regression. The one where it happens and then everyone says ‘well it’s the 4 month sleep regression’ like it’s a thing, like I should know about it. I’m SO tired.
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Husband: Do you think the Room on the Broom cartoon has the same words as the book?
Me: Yes.
Husband:
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Further insight into our school community:
Last day of term we gave a box of LFTs to every child to take home so they could test before coming back (courtesy of our LA).
We had LOTS of parents at the gate asking what they were and how to use them.
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Deleted a tweet bcos a vocal tweeter didn’t agree with it. Then I reflected. I don’t follow this person & there’s obv a reason this person doesn’t follow me either. I don’t agree with lots of tweets on here. Should have kept the tweet up.
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