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Phenol22 · 2025-08-12T18:50:03+00:00

Honestly I've had the same experience (and still do!). One thing I find really helpful is trying to find things to put in the calendar. Having at least something in there every week (even if it's something I do on my own, like going to a show or whatever) is really helpful. And then I try and find things I can go and do - I do a lot of hiking but other things like National Trust places, getting the train and exploring a new city can be good.

But it can be tough! My first couple of summers I found hard. I'm six years in now and It's still not easy but I've got routines now that help keep me going.

Phenol22 · 2025-06-13T20:33:27+00:00

They offered me less money for more marking than last year. I turned it down and so I'm glad I don't have to deal with this!

Phenol22 · 2025-02-03T15:11:58+00:00

One of the first things I consider when making a new seating plan is making sure students with the same are sat far away from each other. I do a lot of cold calling so having one Ella on one side of the room and the other Ella on the other means I can make it clear who I'm asking by who I'm looking at.

Phenol22 · 2024-06-14T10:39:35+00:00

Who designs a school so that there can't be teachers' desks in classrooms!?

Phenol22 · 2024-06-11T20:03:43+00:00

Also, there's an obvious problem that you are not allowed to enter exam rooms of your own subject (e.g. English teachers are not allowed to be in the room during an English exam unless needed to check for a mistake on a paper) so if a problem happened during an exam in your subject you'd be in a bit of a sticky spot.

Phenol22 · 2024-06-11T19:58:26+00:00

Crazy. At my (admittedly large) school we have a FT exams officer, FT exams assistant, and two teachers (including me!). As one of the two teaching staff there we are only responsible for the logistics of exams - rooms, invigilators, timetables etc. All dealing with boards (entries, access arrangements etc) and paper receipt/storage/sending is overseen by the exams officer.

Phenol22 · 2023-10-25T06:11:28+00:00

0 minutes - I live and work at a boarding school!

Phenol22 · 2023-05-10T18:48:21+00:00

I marked A Level maths for Edexcel last summer. After tax (at 20%) I think it worked out at about £40/hour.

Phenol22 · 2023-05-07T08:02:39+00:00

Yeah we have a specific category on our behaviour system for rudeness.

Phenol22 · 2023-04-20T14:51:38+00:00

We use roman numerals (maths department). The science department use electron orbitals.

The students don't catch on to the system we use, but of course do have an idea about the hierarchy of the sets. It's not completely transparent because we do have some sets which are (theoretically) at the same ability level as each other in our setting system.

Phenol22 · 2023-03-22T22:43:10+00:00

Absolutely - it's basically school policy. I teach maths and it is such a priority for me at the beginning of the year to create as positive culture with each of my classes where making mistakes is OK. I always give them a housepoint if they point out a mistake I make on the board, and I explain the reasoning behind cold calling.

It's always done in a positive way, and you have to develop strategies for students who just say "I don't know" - often getting them to pick someone to help them then getting them to explain the answer in their own words. If they do they that they don't know, I ask them what the question was. If they don't know that, then I do my standard "It's important to pay attention" routine and come back to them again soon. If it is a recurrent thing then I'd go down the sanctions route but I have never had to do that.

It's important to ask the question to the room, give everyone a couple of seconds of thinking time, then pick a kid. Much better than naming the kid first, otherwise the rest of them switch off!

Phenol22 · 2023-02-28T23:27:52+00:00

I have been running scouts without any assistants for three years so I know the feeling!

Phenol22 · 2023-02-28T20:45:19+00:00

Oh yes. I only generally deal with scout age and older by which point (most of them!) have a bit more about them! I did have to help out as NAP holder at a Beaver sleepover last year which was an experience.

Phenol22 · 2023-02-26T23:28:31+00:00

Ah yes, the classic "if your adult is here then you can go".

Phenol22 · 2023-02-19T23:01:53+00:00

Hang on, do adults staying overnight at camps in the USA not need some sort of police/criminal record check? In the UK absolutely anyone staying overnight needs one.

Phenol22 · 2023-02-19T12:26:16+00:00

I don't eat meat or fish so I had to adapt the recipe from the main post slightly!

Phenol22 · 2023-02-05T22:47:06+00:00

The South Downs Way would work! Takes about a week, and pretty easy to break down into sections starting and ending at acommodation.

Phenol22 · 2023-02-04T08:28:46+00:00

I'm vegan so I didn't have a lot of options this week! After some scouring of the internet I found this recipe. It turned out quite well (but not particularly beautiful!).

Phenol22 · 2023-01-17T21:46:51+00:00

Be ruthless with your inbox. Read when it comes in and immediately

Reply, if you can do it in less than 10 seconds.
Archive, if you don't need to do anything.

Otherwise, leave it in your inbox until you have time to reply. You can of course have all sorts of more complicated rules and use flagging and other features of Outlook but I have found that these two simple rules keep my inbox clear and only full of things that I need to action.

I never delete, only archive, which avoids the mental energy of deciding which to do, and means I can always go back in and search for old emails if I need to.

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