Stolen jacket at school

missbiggles1

tom9980 wrote: »

Teaching has changed just a bit since then. Indeed quite a lot in the last 10 years alone. Your opinion is based on knowledge that is nearly 50 years out of date.

I know teaching has changed - I worked in and around education my whole career!

In fact my opinion, is based on over 50 years experience from the 60s until well into this century; I wonder whether you can say as much.

geerex

Wow this thread has gone hugely off topic.

missbiggles1

GwylimT wrote: »

They are curriculum topics.

Officially no longer a teacher but when I had said goodbye to my year elevens I would typically have four hours a week to be re-allocated, this was normally a combination of invigilating end of year exams, marking the science ones, going to primary schools to meet our new year sevens, the start of prep on next years work and marking ISAs that had just been completed by year ten.

A staffroom, that would I have been nice, I have only ever worked in one school that had a staffroom.

That's interesting - I must have visited more than a dozen schools and never came across one with at least staff room. Do you think it's a Welsh thing?

GwylimT

missbiggles1 wrote: »

That's interesting - I must have visited more than a dozen schools and never came across one with at least staff room. Do you think it's a Welsh thing?

As I've only ever worked in one Welsh school, no.

piglet25

My daughter lost her phone at school once. Then I had a phone call to say it had been found by a teacher, they then lost it and the school was liable for replacing it as they had a duty of care to look after it. The school itself told me that, and I asked that they only pay half of replacing it as my daughter had lost it in the first place.

carmina_piranha

Running_On_Empty wrote: »

Why not teach non curriculum topics, life skills such as how to understand your pay slip and how to calculate your tax?
What exactly will those re aligned duties be? Tea drinking in the staff room?

The high schools here spend a lot of time getting to know the new year 7's, both on day visits and extra classes. Not just for the current year 6 either, they have started doing a lot with year 5's too, and they have to do that with the entire of year 5, not just the ones that will be going to their high school.

Also in July there are field trips and trips abroad that require extra adult supervision, so any free teachers would be used there.

In the last week of term they might be going abroad on the trips too - when my boy was in year 11 he came back for his trip to Germany.

To be honest, if they are sitting around drinking tea that's fair enough, as they will have put in a lot of extra hours for revision classes in the run-up to exams.

carmina_piranha

susancs wrote: »

When my daughter did her GCSEs a couple of years ago, she finished all her exams in June and as she had a Saturday job at Boots, she just asked for extra work in the week. She wanted to do pharmacy at Uni so she did her Boots instore health care training and persuaded a London research centre to let her shadow someone for a few days (which probably helped her secure a good Uni offer). She did a First Aid course and a swimming pool lifeguarding course. Some of her friends did a four week National Citzens Service course during that summer (teamwork, first aid, community project work). Many did summer jobs.

NCS began before the end of term in my area, I had to hunt around to find one that my son could join with a later start date because he was going on a school trip.

He also went back to his work experience placement from year 10 for some extra experience, and started a volunteer job in a charity shop. NCS took up the entire 6 week holiday, so it was good to have some time to do the other stuff beforehand.

Some NCS courses are for 4 weeks, but this was run by the council and the community centre running it had staff to continue with the volunteering and fundraising, so they spent more time pick-axing trails in the forest, digging the garden at the hospice, etc. and running fundraising events.

Randomjargon

What would I do? I'd sob uncontrollably

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

carmina_piranha wrote: »

The high schools here spend a lot of time getting to know the new year 7's, both on day visits and extra classes. Not just for the current year 6 either, they have started doing a lot with year 5's too, and they have to do that with the entire of year 5, not just the ones that will be going to their high school.

Also in July there are field trips and trips abroad that require extra adult supervision, so any free teachers would be used there.

In the last week of term they might be going abroad on the trips too - when my boy was in year 11 he came back for his trip to Germany.

To be honest, if they are sitting around drinking tea that's fair enough, as they will have put in a lot of extra hours for revision classes in the run-up to exams.

Our lot are running and marking end of year exams, writing reports, running trips, exchanges and visits, planning budgets, working on appraisals, planning for September, looking at the revised curriculum, trying to get essential repairs arranged when there aren't year 11s in from before 8am until 6pm, moderating, submitting documentation requested by exam boards, still teaching year 13s, arranging work experience, planning for staff changes, running activities for the lower years who had to take a back seat in the last term and a half due to GCSE, A and AS work, amongst many other things, such as dealing with timetabling options, year five and six outreach, new year seven induction days and evenings, end of term shows, arranging for music lessons, etc, etc, etc.

It's not as if the exam dates have changed much since I took my GCSEs a quarter of a century [gulp] ago. I went on study leave before my first exam, which I think was early May. Our lot have only been offsite for a week, taking exams and then returning to normal classes before then.

Most trips, visits, Controlled Assessments and suchlike are organised a year in advance, as they need to be booked on the school calendar before somebody else takes the same classes out during the couple of weeks that don't clash with anything major.


It's certainly not a sit back and take it easy time of year.

missbiggles1

GwylimT wrote: »

As I've only ever worked in one Welsh school, no.

Sorry, I thought you were Welsh.