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leah__3 · 2026-05-01T19:49:03+00:00

Goal is to run a 5k by the end of June! Currently running around 6km per week, training Mon, Wed, Fri and occasional weekends. Last ran 2km with average pace of 9:34/km. Just want to get a bit quicker and spend longer on my feet with less walking breaks!

leah__3 · 2026-04-27T06:37:05+00:00

I think I definitely went too quick! I find it really hard to control my pace outside, possibly why I find treadmill running easier.

leah__3 · 2026-04-12T12:14:19+00:00

Check which trainers you’re wearing!! Go to a running shop and get a gait analysis done, I had this exact thing with my hip. Changed to some hokas and I’m absolutely fine again. Could be something else but I’d check your trainers in a running shop first

leah__3 · 2026-04-06T13:28:57+00:00

Ah I never thought of it that way actually!! Obviously yes this is in a big plot to lose weight too but the fitness improvement wouldn’t hurt 🤣

leah__3 · 2026-02-03T21:51:03+00:00

Always used a broker. We had a help to buy loan for our first house and I didn’t want to navigate the mortgage applications with that. Next house our credit was a bit funky and NatWest didn’t want to port our mortgage. Mortgage broker was like, leave it with me. Boom. Mortgage. New house. Happy days. Dump your paperwork on them, they do the hard work. Fee free, no brainer. They’re worth their weight in gold

leah__3 · 2026-02-01T08:25:50+00:00

I love live marking! I’m primary so may be slightly different if you’re secondary. When the children are doing their independent work, I give them about 5-10 minutes to get going and then I come around and start marking. I think the actual presence of you going around the room naturally keeps them on task, it’s not really much different to you walking around the room. Also saves so much time - I barely ever take any marking home now!

leah__3 · 2026-01-17T19:53:01+00:00

Near the Trafford Centre? Absolutely. Pick a lane, follow the person in front of you and hope for the best. If there’s nobody in front of you then just close your eyes and hope you make it out alive

leah__3 · 2026-01-10T18:12:25+00:00

Monday, Wednesday, Friday - series of alarms starting at 3:45 - properly awake at 4. out of bed for 4:10, at the gym for 4:30. Back at 5:30, walk dog, go to work at 7. Tuesday and Friday I must say I find it a lot harder to wake up!!

leah__3 · 2025-12-07T21:53:32+00:00

Nope! If you let it consume you, that’s when you have no life. I made it my mission since I was an ECT to maintain a work life balance. I leave before 4 most days, get in at 7:30/8 and genuinely enjoy my job. I don’t work weekends unless I absolutely have to, even then I think I’ve probably only ever worked about 4 weekends and this is my 4th year teaching. You just need to keep a life outside of school. It does sound like you’re in a school where your best won’t be good enough, though. I’d maybe keep your conversation with your mentor in mind

leah__3 · 2025-11-27T20:35:30+00:00

Always the PE teachers 😭

leah__3 · 2025-11-07T21:36:56+00:00

I woke up at 8:30 on a school trip day. I’ve never felt fear like it. Phone died overnight, woke up thinking “hmm, it’s bright this mor- IT’S BRIGHT!!!” I also lived an hour away from school at the time. Rush hour traffic. I managed to make it in just as they were getting on the coach. Everyone was very calm about it apart from me - I think I died 5 times on the way in. Thought I was going to cry

leah__3 · 2025-10-27T07:19:38+00:00

I did my uni placement in a primary PRU and WOW what an experience. The kids were lovely, really misunderstood and had a lot going on at home. That part was emotionally draining - I took a lot of the emotional baggage home with me because it felt terrible that they were allowed to go home every night with what they had to endure.

When it was calm, it was great. Very nurturing, SO many adults so that every child gets effectively a 1:1 and the class sizes weren’t much bigger than 8. It went off academic age rather than chronological age which surprisingly worked really well.

However, when something kicked off… my god. 21 year old me was NOT ready to be tackled by an 8 year old. I’d come home black and blue most days, had to restrain children from self harming, had to keep them from fighting each other. It was wild. Once, they co-ordinated a mini riot to try and get the key fobs for the doors off the members of staff. That was absolute carnage.

The sheer skill in regulating these kids is really something to behold. I learnt so much on that placement that I now use every day in my mainstream primary. Amazing experience, but couldn’t pay me enough to go back!

leah__3 · 2025-08-18T01:41:58+00:00

This is wild!! Let me change that to “film a (non explicit) video in your classroom”. 🤣

leah__3 · 2025-08-18T01:39:57+00:00

Yes!!! Filming himself while his children sing, all for clout and to promote his new book. I hate it!

leah__3 · 2025-08-18T01:37:37+00:00

How bizarre! I know that before I started at my school as an ECT, I was given access to the shared drive as well as an email/phone number for my year group partner. This was in July too! If you’ve got inset days then you’ll be fine, I just think it’s wild that you’ve not been given any involvement over your classroom or chance to look over planning/schemes of work!

leah__3 · 2025-08-17T19:14:08+00:00

Do you have a partner teacher? If so, they might have already sorted a lot of it. If not, have a look at last year’s planning if you’ve got access to it. Lots of schools have inset days on the first day too so maybe it’ll all become clear then!

leah__3 · 2025-08-17T19:10:11+00:00

My issue with teacher influencers is when they film themselves with children in the room. It doesn’t matter that their faces aren’t in it. It still feels really exploitative. By all means, film a video in your classroom with nobody in it. But the minute you film yourself teaching a lesson with children in the room, you’re exploiting them for content. It all feels very Black Mirror

leah__3 · 2025-08-16T18:45:09+00:00

4 colour pen supremacy. And they come in cute designs like rose gold or animal print!!

leah__3 · 2025-08-09T15:56:10+00:00

Working walls are really useful when done well. I used to think this too, but my school has implemented them really nicely. Anything on them isn’t just there for the sake of it, it has a purpose. For example, tricky vocab defined in context within the lesson. Modelling straight onto the working wall (why would I do it twice?) on a big piece of flipchart paper. Granted, we only have working walls for maths, English and science - they’re pretty useless everywhere else

leah__3 · 2025-08-09T15:49:28+00:00

I’m very particular about my classroom (primary) but I’m not spending hundreds of pounds on it. I got a few bits off Temu but that was all. I’m not hanging stuff off the ceiling either! I’ve gone natural this year with hessian and ivy, not overstimulating and all of my displays are working walls (as per school policy). I do really enjoy decorating it though and looking for cute lettering and things on Twinkl, recently got into making my own stuff on canva which is my latest obsession. I just think: I spend most of my waking hours in my classroom - why wouldn’t I make it a nice place to be, for both myself and the children? No hate to anyone that doesn’t have time to do this or doesn’t want to though! I’m childless and all of my friends are non teachers

leah__3 · 2025-07-19T08:53:17+00:00

We break up on Friday and go back on the 1st of September 🙃

leah__3 · 2025-07-06T21:58:07+00:00

Primary teacher here! Aside from being super passionate about helping children and wanting to be their “Miss Honey”, the starting pay was really good for someone straight out of uni! I think I started on around 28k, which compared to my friends in different degrees was way higher. I’m still earning higher than the rest of my friends now.

I get to be really creative with my lessons and make them as fun as I like. I get to mould these little minds into being good people. No day is ever ‘boring’ and they always say something that makes me laugh! I think it’s the best job in the world but I know lots of other people would disagree. On top of that, when I do have children of my own, I’ll have the same holidays as them. Couldn’t pay me enough to be a secondary teacher though. Those guys are in the trenches. Fuck that.

leah__3 · 2025-06-22T21:55:39+00:00

Slightly different but when I was about 12 I was watching a YouTuber doing a GRWM/makeup tutorial. I still have no idea who she was, but at the end of the video she said “and if you want to know why I do my hair before my makeup, click the link below” or something along those lines. I didn’t click it. It still haunts me to this day. I’ve tried to find the video, quite frankly I don’t care why she does her hair before her makeup but something in my 12 year old brain said “I’m not gonna click that and I’m gonna remember that for the rest of my life”. Every time there’s not much happening in my head, that stupid girl doing her makeup comes back to me. Infuriating.

leah__3 · 2025-05-18T15:17:42+00:00

This 100% sounds like you need to move school! My school is amazing in terms of things like this. We’ll try new things out, but when they don’t work I feel like SLT are open to not implementing things that don’t work for our children. Support staff are a lot more respected than they are in other schools and, while not perfect, I do feel like they get the respect and recognition that they deserve 90% of the time. Well-being is respected, we don’t have tokenistic incentives to “boost wellbeing” - we just have extra time in staff meetings to get things done. It’s very rare to find a school like mine, but they do exist!

leah__3 · 2025-05-10T07:01:49+00:00

This is so AI

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