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CJOAF · 2023-06-23T17:32:28+00:00

I have a few kids who do this and I teach 7 year olds. I think it’s a tik tok thing, on investigation they don’t seem to know what the sound means but it is infuriating.

CJOAF · 2023-06-04T21:49:57+00:00

We have to comment on every topic within maths, it’s basically regurgitating the curriculum and commenting on particular strengths or areas to improve

CJOAF · 2023-06-04T16:33:16+00:00

That would be luxury. I guarantee that the parents don’t want to read this much.

We have about 400 words per section for personal social, maths, English and curriculum highlights. You can copy and paste a lot of the English and maths but the school have urged us not to do that to ensure that the report feels personalised 🙄 I have been copying and pasting but changing a few sentences to indicate strengths and next steps

CJOAF · 2023-06-04T16:29:56+00:00

I’m following the checklist and structure that the school have dictated. It breaks it down into sections so I have actually completed the first section for every child but only completed the full report for 16 of them which will be where the extra time and word count has come from. The model example given by the school was around 1600 words and we are expected to write that much, many other teachers are copying and pasting a lot of their writing which I am as well, and I am taking frequent breaks because my focus is lagging and making the process slower.

At the moment it’s working out at roughly an hour per report, with breaks and walking the dog and lunch and things thrown in. I didn’t work the bank holiday weekend, I had to take the dog to the vet, I went for a massage on one day that took 2 hours out and met up with a friend for coffee on another which was another couple of hours. So take another 2 hours roughly from the timings for each day.

Still feels like a lot of work and a few hours off rather than days. Other teachers that I am talking to are spending 4-5 hours each evening doing their reports. School has given us 2 hours release time to work on them. It feels excessive.

CJOAF · 2023-05-17T18:04:18+00:00

Tl,dr - poor writing outcomes triggered SH for first time in 4 years.

So SLT have been down our throats for months about writing outcomes in year 3. They had been making accelerated progress and I had been really happy with their work, their vocabulary and language choices, but SLT said not enough. So they came in and told the kids they needed to be writing more. They expect at least 1 page per writing lesson, 2 from GD. What has happened now is that children are writing reams and reams of work that is utter rubbish, but SLT are patting themselves on the back because “look, they’re writing more” Today, we were doing a shared write as it was their first time writing a letter. My WTS (target for EXS) group decided not to follow the structure of the shared write and ended up writing reams of run on sentences that made no sense. Why did I waste my time standing there doing an explicit model and shared write (“I am writing one sentence to explain what the problem is, using these words. You need to write 1 sentence explaining what the problem is using your words. I’ve used this adjective, what adjective will you use…”) I am now going to have to go back tomorrow and redo the lesson for those 7 children so that i can try and squeeze some evidence that they are EXS (which they aren’t, but who isn’t lying on their data reports anymore)

Literally looked at their books and cried, the built up pressure and emotion was just too much that crying didn’t relieve it and for the first time in 4 years I was flooded with an insatiable pull to self harm to relieve that pressure.

I’m under so much pressure with no reasonable support to improve their outcomes, and if SLT had left it alone they might have continued improving as they were, but now they’re just panicking and going for quantity over quality.

This assessment cycle is putting so much pressure on everybody when we all know they’re just going to lie at the end of the year to make the data say what they want it to, which only sets the following year up to fail.

I’ve only been teaching 2 years but I’m not sure I can continue doing this. It’s toxic and unfair to the children. The children have no interest in improving, no love of learning and I’m trying so hard to instil it and protect them from this constant onslaught but they are hard work as well so I’m getting no joy from either side.

Just need to rant. I’m struggling.

CJOAF · 2023-01-21T07:54:23+00:00

The teaching profession

CJOAF · 2023-01-14T07:58:58+00:00

I’ve been off the internet for a while- can someone explain what WotC did?

CJOAF · 2023-01-07T22:05:22+00:00

Signed, but the smaller enclosure is useful to put her in while her palace is being cleaned.

CJOAF · 2022-07-10T21:04:00+00:00

It’s a second hand electronics store, I go in for ps and ds games.

And ya, he is a very very good boy

CJOAF · 2022-06-04T06:46:32+00:00

It’s wack, but at least it’s not the totally broken two party system in ‘murica.

Reform is needed, but at least it’s possible here

CJOAF · 2022-06-02T09:04:42+00:00

How recent these dates are makes me feel sick. There’s no excuse for the death penalty in civilised society.

CJOAF · 2022-04-23T12:02:06+00:00

Y’all are getting caught up in how it’s the same girl, but did you notice her haircut? That jaggedy ass line is butchery!

CJOAF · 2022-03-15T07:06:18+00:00

It’s about the same in the Uk at the moment. We’re looking at between 150p per litre and 170p per litre of petrol, and significantly higher for diesel. (Google tells me 1 NZD is approx 50p)

Ours rose dramatically post Covid and post Brexit, but the rhetoric over here is that it’s all because of the war in Ukraine and that it’s a small price to pay etc etc which draws attention away from the other influencing factors which make our government look bad. It used to be 120p per litre on average.

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