Stolen jacket at school

pollypenny

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

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.

Good summary, Jojo!

I always looked forward to an easier time when exam classes left. Pity it never happened!

pollypenny

missbiggles1 wrote: »

Sorry, I thought you were Welsh.

He is Welsh, but he's not tied to teaching in Wales.

Both my sisters teach in England.

Wales' biggest exports: teachers, preachers and water.