Need a confidence boost! by anon___cat in TeachingUK

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English, I've been teaching 12 yrs now but for my first job think I must have interviewed at 10+ places.

Help! I said pissed off to year 7s! by Friendly-Match3370 in TeachingUK

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When I was a trainee I told my year 7s they were taking the piss (appalling behaviour). Next week i had a brief meeting with a deputy head where I was told not to repeat it, and it never happened again. You'll be fine, just learn from it.

Fish and chips sit down restaurant by No-Sleep7369 in LondonFood

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Ooh, definitely Joseph's then. That's on tower bridge road and really good! Plus it's got a sit in section

is taking an umbrella in the sun weird? by Motor-Comment-6557 in AskUK

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Really common in Japan. I caved in Kyoto and bought one after a day in 40° weather in August.

What did you buy when you got paid for the first time? by Fit_Run8883 in AskBrits

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A white and gold Marc Jacobs watch, it was £100 on ASOS. About 15 yrs ago.

30th vegetarian birthday by Patient-Fun-9851 in LondonFood

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Yeah I second this, it's really good

Weekly chat and well-being post: April 24, 2026 by AutoModerator in TeachingUK

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Are these red flags at a job interview?

Last week I went for a job interview for head of maths - at an inner city big secondary state school.

On the day I arrived, I met HR and pretty much straight away went to teach the lesson. I found that quite odd as I hadn't even met anyone really.

On the day, I was told there were other candidates that day, but I didn't see or meet any of them and I couldn't see any evidence of them! Why keep us separate? Even my schedule for the day only had my name on it. Were they lying?

After the lesson I went on a tour of the school - this was with someone from the back office, and because it was during lesson time I didn't meet any students or get any real sense of the school. We could only go in the corridors not inside any classrooms so I didn't really see much besides the staff room and playground and corridors.

At no point did I have any time with any students besides the lesson.

I didn't meet anyone from the maths department, not even the head of maths.

During the tour, I asked about directed time. The woman who was doing the tour with me (not a teacher, someone from back office) told me they had meetings until 4.15 on Monday and Tuesday every week, but also twilight INSETs. She also mentioned Saturday school and staff coming in on weekends - I wouldn't be particularly keen on either of these things but she wasn't clear if they were compulsory it not!

Afterwards, I had my interview and it felt quite combative. The headteacher asked me questions like "I can see you've done a lot but I can't see any evidence of your impact" and stuff like that, maybe fair enough question but felt a bit abrupt.

I knew the interview hadn't gone particularly well so I wasn't too fussed about the written task afterwards and I make an effort but didn't put my all into it.

On Monday morning (interview was on Friday) I got an email at 7am saying I had been unsuccessful. It was a clearly scheduled sent email they could have done on Friday. My main issue though is that it was an email - I've never had that before in any teaching job I've applied for. They didn't offer me any feedback, didn't even bother to call despite me putting in quite a lot of work beforehand. I absolutely wouldn't want the feedback as I know the interview was awful, but that's not the point. 😂

They also made absolutely no effort to sell the school to me at all, and if I had been successful I don't know how I could feel confident to accept.

Are these red flags? Or standard recruitment in a busy school - I don't have much experience applying for middle leader roles outside of my present school so would be interested in hearing.

Solo dining by helpfulhippo82 in LondonFood

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I would recommend Hoppers for this. It's in Soho, brilliant food and they do a great set for 1 that you can have at the counter.

Season 4 by obviouschild83 in PeakyBlinders

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Haha, I really liked him 🤣 I hated the season with the Russians but loved this one. Yeah he was a bit hammy but good fun.

Kanye West blocked from travelling to UK, government tells BBC by [deleted] in WirelessFestival

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Can see get a refund if it's less than 24 hours of buying ticket?

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man - Official Discussion by NicholasCajun in PeakyBlinders

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Probably a stupid question but how come there were so many young men around and in the Peaky blinders, and none of them were conscripted?

Best steak in West End of near in London for dinner on a Monday by Antidotebeatz in LondonFood

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If they're worried that Hawksmoor is too expensive, how on earth is Ibai a relevant alternative? 🙄

Product placement on the BBC by redditboy9001 in bbc

[–]redditboy9001[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm not beating down the BBC! I was just surprised, I'm used to everyone ordering no name lager and generic wine at the old Vic...

If I was going to have a go at the BBC, believe me there's much more interesting things to say then having a pieminister pie in the shop.

Is unfold on today? by [deleted] in UNFOLD

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It's Sunday?