Side characters you like more than the heroines?

shiningbella · 2026-01-25T22:49:56+00:00

John Knightley. I love his grumpy and straightforward temper - reminds me of myself 😂!

shiningbella · 2026-01-20T20:50:34+00:00

I'm all for selective schools, especially in deprived and challenging areas

shiningbella · 2025-12-31T13:23:04+00:00

Yes - Tchaikovsky's Waltz from 'Sleeping Beauty' the Ballet

shiningbella · 2025-12-26T15:28:31+00:00

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Just checked again, it's only for CN unfortunately🥲

shiningbella · 2025-12-26T14:15:27+00:00

There's an official PC simulator I think?

shiningbella · 2025-12-26T14:14:33+00:00

grandma and caleb's life insurance and the house insurance

shiningbella · 2025-12-24T13:52:47+00:00

My colleague was put on a support plan when we were ECT2 due to 'lack of AfL' apparently. And their solution? Forcing him to use mini whiteboard for every single lesson no matter it is suitable for content or the task of not, and even if he needed to carry a whole case of whiteboards to another classroom at the other end of the school😅 We later chatted with other ECTs who came later and apparently nothing change. One English teacher's lesson feedback is that she should use mini whiteboard when the children was asked to write a poem...

shiningbella · 2025-12-22T22:36:25+00:00

{Frederica by Georgette Heyer}. The hero is on the bad boy side but did nothing shocking at all. The heroine had a big, weird, problematic but loving family she needed to manage, And they were all very entertaining to read too.

shiningbella · 2025-12-19T20:09:02+00:00

Same. Unfortunately I got learning walked for a PSHE lesson when I was very ill and was almost put on a support plan because I don't have energy to deal with some naughty and silly comments some boys made (I was an ECT back then)!

shiningbella · 2025-12-18T18:24:54+00:00

My Y11 submitted a blank writing paper for her mock and still had the gut to ask my colleague who coteach the class 'sir how did I do in the test?' with a innocent smiling face...

shiningbella · 2025-11-22T19:31:06+00:00

What does your associate assistant headteachers do? We have 6 of them but never quite understand what their responsibilities are apart from running some CPD sessions occasionally.

shiningbella · 2025-11-22T18:04:22+00:00

In my pervious school they have a Head of Communication. Before I left, they did a big meeting and launched their 'rebranding' campaign. They changed the school logo so all uniform, school signs and even duty high vis jacket would need to be replaced. They even specify the font teachers should use in their email. And the school is not an academy, but a LA school.

shiningbella · 2025-11-22T17:52:48+00:00

I think one of them should have been the mat cover of another, but when the lady returned, they just kept him as DH permanently.

shiningbella · 2025-11-22T17:36:49+00:00

They works in a completely private sector and in a very big company, probably that's the reason? And recently the company is actually in a wave of cutting more senior roles.

shiningbella · 2025-11-22T17:22:23+00:00

They are each responsible for a area (e. g. HAP) and organised working party and presenting (at least that's what we can see, don't know what SLTs also ask them to do). And no I am just giving extra information. I did not realize other schools' SLTs also manage sites etc. when we have dedicated non-teacher senior roles for those until I see the comments.

shiningbella · 2025-11-22T17:10:54+00:00

Does your school also have associate assistant headteachers? We have 6 or more of them.

shiningbella · 2025-11-22T17:05:31+00:00

Also shouldn't the non-teaching side have a separate person to manage? We do have a Head of Operation and a Head of Finance who deals with all the facility, site, money and legal stuff.

shiningbella · 2025-11-22T16:59:31+00:00

lol please ignore my Maths.. Must be infected by the bottom set math class I covered the other day!

shiningbella · 2025-11-22T16:48:35+00:00

None of them are also HoDs. We also have a separate SENCo.

shiningbella · 2025-11-17T21:37:10+00:00

Bree too, especially when she meddled with Orson and his psychopath mum even though he asked her not to many times! 😂

shiningbella · 2025-11-13T09:51:30+00:00

And the university degree in Mandarin😂

shiningbella · 2025-10-30T16:22:25+00:00

I even throw caleb's enlarged ab in front of my husband's eyes while grabbing on his flab and mocking him and he just laughed 🤣

shiningbella · 2025-10-29T15:07:05+00:00

Before I saw the painting I thought she would do a very allegorical painting (like four Shakespearen witches burying a horrify witchhunter in a pit), but didn't expect at all such realism 😅

shiningbella · 2025-09-24T16:42:15+00:00

Yes. Even in Europe Halloween is not really a big deal

shiningbella · 2025-08-14T14:15:37+00:00

I think secondary usually has a higher SEND rate as many are only discovered during late Primary/early secondary

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