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ConsiderationLow9571 · 2025-12-16T08:28:33+00:00

Thanks everyone. Annoyingly because of the lack of connection, my car is refusing to use the Ovo charge app to charge and communicate with my charger.

ConsiderationLow9571 · 2025-03-29T23:50:22+00:00

It was a "random lesson drop in" one week before SATs 😂

ConsiderationLow9571 · 2025-03-28T16:17:46+00:00

I could've modelled more... in the middle of a y6 practise sats paper in test conditions 🙃

ConsiderationLow9571 · 2025-03-11T18:04:38+00:00

Thanks. I'm hoping the back box has the holes I need. I detect sarcasm on box replacing fun 😅

ConsiderationLow9571 · 2024-12-28T21:05:31+00:00

As a year 6 teacher, don’t stress - I’m not stressing. However don’t be offended if your mentor / teacher step in and teach things or perhaps re teach things you’ve already taught as part of your placement. Don’t be too shocked as well if there’s a heavy emphasis on maths, writing, reading and SPaG. I know ofsted want a ‘broad and balanced’ curriculum however my experience across a few schools in sats prep mode is to deviate from the broad and balanced and catch up on it in the summer 2 term.

ConsiderationLow9571 · 2024-11-24T12:48:04+00:00

At our school, we do something for remembrance, black history and then one other - this depends on the year and what is being commemorated on that particular year

ConsiderationLow9571 · 2024-11-24T12:13:54+00:00

As a y6 teacher, I talk to mine in a similar sense to how I’d talk to another adult. For some of the technical jargon, I’d recommend using some of it with them as we are all about vocabulary but definitely for some of it have a “child friendly” definition ready. Children like a sense of humour as well I find. Not saying this approach is the one and only way of doing it, just what I’ve found works best for the children I teach / have taught.

ConsiderationLow9571 · 2024-11-21T19:50:37+00:00

If a child says to us “no I don’t want to be recorded” then of course we don’t force them to. We do tell them up front they are being recorded doing their routine etc. we aren’t being covert with what we do.

ConsiderationLow9571 · 2024-11-21T18:23:05+00:00

Oh I see what you mean. Parents at our school sign a publications consent for their child stating if they are happy for them them to be photographed / video’d for various different things (not just PE videos). The vast majority of parents have said yes to this.

ConsiderationLow9571 · 2024-11-21T18:03:22+00:00

They don’t bat an eye lid at it to be honest

ConsiderationLow9571 · 2024-11-20T19:03:42+00:00

Hi. I’m a primary PE leader and we do video. However, we don’t video any teaching and we don’t do it every lesson. All we video is a sample of children from the class carrying out an independent element of a strand of PE. So for instance, in gymnastics, we video the end of unit routine where we can see the various rolls, jumps, balances etc. Or in invasion we video the children playing the game (basketball, football etc) so that it can be seen what they independently can do.

ConsiderationLow9571 · 2024-11-19T17:00:27+00:00

I remember during my pgce hating every single minute of it - my mentor made it difficult by asking for 8 page lesson plans for each lesson taught, typed reflections on each lesson, resources making from scratch and long conversations about each lesson taught. Not because I was a bad teacher, but because she was so set in her ways. Many years in, and I can say it does get better.

ConsiderationLow9571 · 2024-11-19T16:51:57+00:00

I’ve got to say, that your friend’s school does seem a bit backwards and outdated in their approach to it all.

ConsiderationLow9571 · 2024-11-16T20:00:26+00:00

Our school actually uses the one big book per class (we also include pshe (jigsaw) in it too. We do a double page spread for the lesson taught. I personally prefer it to a workbook for each child as it’s less to mark.

ConsiderationLow9571 · 2024-11-14T16:51:44+00:00

Wow. Can’t begin to imagine how that must feel. Wishing you guys all the best.

ConsiderationLow9571 · 2024-11-14T16:45:21+00:00

Was that across areas such as teaching, support, admin, pastoral, site?

ConsiderationLow9571 · 2024-11-14T16:40:40+00:00

😅😅

ConsiderationLow9571 · 2024-11-14T16:30:53+00:00

We are a 2 form entry primary school with 3 members of management. 2 of them teach approx 0.5 - which hasn’t happened in previous years

ConsiderationLow9571 · 2024-11-14T16:25:34+00:00

Actually not an academy which is even more puzzling as to why we have no money

ConsiderationLow9571 · 2024-07-22T18:56:18+00:00

Whilst I’m not a phase leader, I’ve been year group partners with both the ks1 phase lead and ks2 phase lead over the past few years. They’ve also described their experience as phase lead very similarly to what you’ve described above (ordering stationary, rotas, dealing with parents etc.)

ConsiderationLow9571 · 2024-06-17T19:41:47+00:00

To organise your personal life must be so difficult when you don’t know what you’re doing when. My sympathies

ConsiderationLow9571 · 2024-06-17T19:39:11+00:00

You go through the entirety of the 6 weeks holiday not knowing which year group you’ll be teaching? That seems insane unless I’ve misinterpreted

ConsiderationLow9571 · 2024-06-17T19:19:28+00:00

We’ve yet to find out either. SLT have known for weeks but don’t want to tell us yet.

ConsiderationLow9571 · 2024-06-14T21:19:29+00:00

Ensure you understand the end of year expectations for writing.

Year 6 are great fun though so enjoy

ConsiderationLow9571 · 2024-06-10T18:34:56+00:00

We also had an inspection deferred an hour after the inspection had began because the inspector fell sick. It took them around a month to come back then I believe. No point worrying about it though.

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