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The Ultimate Incentive part 10. The only thing holding you back is you.
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Afternoon all! Haven't been reading for ages but just wanted to pop in to say hi!
Congratulations Flower on the arrival of Poppy! I'd love to see pics too
Lara I'm so pleased you're nearing the end of the slog; you definitely deserve to relax with your OH and enjoy Christmas - it'll be lovely.
Dinah that's fab news about the potential diagnosis and treatment! I've only been ill 8 weeks and I nearly cried at my last appointment when my consultant said that my results were finally looking up so the relief you must feel must be amazing! Fingers crossed everything goes your way for an easier pregnancy next time
Birdie I can't believe you're at 28 weeks already! Where has the time gone?! Do you have cravings yet and can you feel kicks? I'm so broody at the mo
Hope you're feeling better soon ROTE
I'm trying to do online Christmas shopping but it's not going very well.Hope everyone is having a good Friday afternoon!
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Lovely to 'see' you here Zig! :wave: Missed you! Glad things are back on the up health-wise too!
No idea where the time has gone, I seemed to blink and fast forward 8 weeks!Feeling lots of kicks, sometimes it's a bit annoying actually as it keeps me awake and he somersaults a lot which makes me feel a bit sick.
He's having a wriggle around now actually.
I had a massive thing for cheese in the earlier months but that's kind of settled now, no other cravings apart from a slight addiction to Ripples, but TBH I don't think that's down to being pregnant!
Been in a fair bit of pain recently so got the grumps, just want to fast forward another 12 weeks!
Struggling a little with my Christmas shopping too, no idea what to buy people and my budget for OH (that he demanded I stick to, 'No cheating') is so restrictive I'm second guessing everything I buy/want to buy!
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I would love to see a pic of Poppy too Flower, great to hear from you and glad you're all doing well.
Dinah - amazing news, keeping everything firmly crossed for you that they can fix the problem.
ROTE - sorry to hear you're poorly, hope you're taking it easy and keeping toasty.
Lara - that hotel! Wowee! Such an exciting time for you and lovely to hear you feeling so much happier after the tough time you've been having
Cinny - I was blissfully unaware of H&M home until now and now I WANT ALL THE THINGSLooking forward to your pics, you have such good taste I'm probably going to get some serious home envy!
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Hi all, just thought I'd pop in and say hello, it's been ages! I'm feeling a little lonely and down about my course and was just writing along those lines on the TES forum, but I really wanted to be back here with my *real* internet friends so here I am.
I've been lurking a little on my phone in spare moments but can't remember what everyone's up to except to say congrats to Flower! Hope they manage to sort you out soon Dinah! How's the job going NIM? How's the work going Lara? And more importantly did the glamour closet ever get finished? How are you Zig? Hope well after your stay in hospital!
Not a lot to report here really, really struggling with workload - it takes me hours to plan just one lesson (and I mean 4-6 hours) so I have basically no time or sleep and I'm struggling to submit lesson plans to my class teachers 48 hours in advance as requested - and because I'm behind now and it all takes so long, I can't catch up. I feel like they're getting sick of me and think I'm lazy but honestly I'm really working all the time, just struggling to do anything at any kind of speed. My Dad is clearly worried about me and keeps saying I'm spending too much time on it (well, if I didn't I'd be getting up in front of Year 8 tomorrow with nothing to say, so...) and that "it doesn't really matter" - but of course it does, it matters more than anything I've done in ages actually. Bless him I know he's only trying to help. It's the relentlessness of it that's getting me down at the moment I think - I work my guts out on a lesson, teach the lesson, get a load of criticism, then have another one to work on -there's no relief. Really having a crisis of confidence that I can do this.
Anyway, sorry! I've just hijacked the thread with my big downer! I'm sure I'll feel better in the morning! Hope everyone's well! I miss chatting to you all! xxWeightloss: 14.5/65lb0 -
Zig! I was wondering how you were over the weekend, I'm so disconnected from Facebook I was worried I'd missed an update. So glad things are looking up for you
We really need to get on with planning the 3rd York meet in January!
I wish I was back to being blissfully unaware of the pretty H&M things too! I only stumbled across it innocently looking for shower curtains, and now I have the biggest need for all the things because of reasons.
I'm sure with time and gaining more confidence in yourself your lesson planning will get faster and faster until the process is second nature and you've totally bossed it TeteI'd have loved a teacher like you in school, once you start seeing results and can get all emotional over achievements Educating Yorkshire style, it'll all be worth it
How long is it until you have your Winter break? But you can do this! I keep meaning to message you on twitter but there isn't enough damn tweet space
Sending hugs xx
Did everyone have a nice weekend?Finally got our DOTD (that has a whole new meaning!) and it was perfect! I spent all day listening to things about it on the radio, totally overdosed on Doctor Who but a part of me wishes it was Doctor Who Day everyday
(apart from Tuesdays, which are Supernatural days)
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Dr Who was super, wasn't it?!
We watched it in 3D and blessed the BBC for such mervellous programming!
The after party was a bit naff though... the only thing that really interested me was wondering why the hell has Amy Pond shaved her head?!?!
Big hugs for you Tete. Must be awful to be under so much pressure and feel like you're on a treadmill with the work, not really getting anywhere fast. It is still such early days though and the criticism is for your own benefit, if they said nothing you'd just become complacent and start to slack which is no good at this point. I know you were trying the whole 'Work SMART' thing, how's this working out for you? Not long now until the Christmas holidays, you can spend a few days getting totally caught up, then the rest of the time resting and de-stressing so you can start afresh in January.
Hope everyone had a nice weekend.Saturday was mainly focussed on rugby and Dr Who, with little trips to town for gingerbread lattes and to watch the Christmas lights get turned on and yesterday we went to see Catching Fire which was good and I went to my friend's in the evening for tapas which was lovely. Just a shame to be back at work already. Off to London on Saturday, luckily we haven't got any hard plans as I feel like we'll mainly be waddling around slowly and stopping for drinks and cake on an hourly basis!
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Hello Peeps!
Zig - I am so sorry to hear you've been poorly and in hospital. I hope you're home and starting to feel better. Sending you big massive get well soon wishes, and I hope you have some small everyday treats to enjoy.
Tete - I feel your pain. It is really hard to get motivated when something feels relentless. When do you get your Christmas break? I am sure you are looking forward to the hugest rest. Lesson planning is definitely a lot of time-consuming work, and you will certainly get quicker as you gain experience. It's early days yet. However, maybe there are ways to challenge yourself and your current ways of working to try to jump-start the process? Like giving yourself 3 hours, the first for brainstorming, the second for outlining and the third for finalising. Then just stop, leave it half a day and check it again. You can do this, learning is sometimes painful but persistence is key.
Well I have today and tomorrow to fix all the problems with my thesis, and then it goes off to be printed and bound on Wednesday. I can't wait. In a week today I'll be sitting at the airport!!:A :heartpuls June 2014 / £2014 in 2014 / £735.97 / 36.5%0 -
Great to hear your results are looking up Zig, sorry we cross-posted last time - have to sneak on at work as they're very strict on internet usage so its takes me ages to post. Do they know what has caused the problems?
Tete its awful to hear you sounding so down on yourself(although its always lovely to see you and you can come here to let off steam as much as you like of course
) I'm positive that no-one thinks you are lazy, how could they? But teachers do tend to get a bit frazzled at this time of year, especially if they have just had Ofsted, so maybe that is showing through. Its nothing personal. You can definitely, absolutely do this and you are going to be amazing. I know I can't help with planning but is there anything else we could help with in any way? Is anything non-work adding to your stress?
Birdie your weekend sound lovely! Mine was nice too, had a catch up with some old friends and OH's parents round for lunch on Sunday. Other than that it generally went far too quickly!Barclaycard [STRIKE]£7,296.35[/STRIKE] £6134.99 - MBNA [STRIKE]£4,182.88[/STRIKE] £3267.08 - O/draft [STRIKE]£569.31[/STRIKE] £413.59 - Capital One [STRIKE]£1477.55[/STRIKE] £1451.44Total debt [STRIKE]£12048.54[/STRIKE] £11267.10 6% paid0 -
Hello you sweet girls, I read your messages at lunchtime on my phone and they really perked me up, as did having my mentor say that today's was the best lesson he's seen me do yet (still not great but making progress!) - maybe the hours I put into the plan were worth it after all! I then had what I thought was a horrendous lesson this afternoon - trying to build on something thet'd done last week but none of them could remember a bit of it (they're flaming hopeless! Par for the course with teenagers though apparently) - so that really threw me and I felt like it was all a total disaster but my (other) mentor said I'd actually handled it really well and she would have planned it the same way and had the same situation to deal with so that made me feel better. Feeling soo much more positive even though a meeting with my tutor piled yet more work on this evening. Le sigh. Three weeks and four days to Christmas!!!
Aw Shrimpy thanksI don't think there's anything anyone can do, it's something I need to power through myself! Nothing else worrying me (for once) - just work!
Birdie is work SMART a thing, like an acronym? If so I think I've been doing it wrongI thought it just meant being efficient rather than slogging your guts out....
Aww Cinny and everyone, did you see Mushy beat his stammer?! I was in floods of tears watching that! Nothing's happening on quite that scale but I have the odd small moment where I'll have a chat with a pupil and think, aww this is great. Mostly it's stress and nerves though!
Oh Lara, so pleased for you! How are you feeling about your thesis, are you happy with it in the end? This is such a well-deserved holiday for you!Weightloss: 14.5/65lb0 -
Hi Tete, hugs from someone who knows the feeling! I had my meltdown last week, cried in front of everyone bar the children
I thought I was the world's worst student teacher, completely lost my confidence and hated the course and myself and my class teacher and and and.....
Then my uni tutor came in and observed me and said I was exactly where she'd expect me to be at this stage, and that stress, over-work and tears are normal around this time.
You're not alone xx I'm feeling lonely too. All my old chums back near Brighton are all busy getting on with their lives; I'm too busy to do much more than just send a FB Hello message, and not getting much back; I don't have any real new friends, due to being too busy and just getting up, going to school, staying there 8am-6pm most days, then coming home, cuddling DD and planning/stressing that I don't know what the heck I'm thinking of (2D and 3D shapes anyone?!) and going to bed and waking up panicking that I'll muck up!
I have some respite - Thursday afternoon is a wow afternoon; Friday is French day and next week I've got 2 days back at uni. Bring it on! Then just one week left of placement, then the holidays start for me(oh and writing my next Masters level stuff!)
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