To me, as a teacher, form time is the twenty five minutes a day in which you hang out as a form, chat, help anyone who needs a hand, bollock anyone who needs bollocking, sometimes do charity projects such as harvest boxes, sometimes do quizzes, learn about the kids as people while they get to know you in a limited, as far as is appropriate, fashion. It makes a form special as a group.
I cannot warm to the idea of form time being forcibly productive, full of improving activities. There is a place for silent reading but is it really in my form? SMT say that there must be no dead time but how is cultivating social skills and forming bonds dead time?
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To think that not every minute of the school day need be scheduled and "show progress"?
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DrSeuss · 23/10/2013 12:34
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