Supply this afternoon

[unpackyoursuitcase]

I feel sick, hot and shaky. Booked to teach yr 3/4 this afternoon. So nervous, never been to school before. I want to ring agency and cancel,

[Rosieliveson]

If the feeling is illness then you should cancel. The agency can probably find someone else in time. If it's just nerves then go along. You'll be fine. It's a nice time of term to see a new school. Good luck.

[unpackyoursuitcase]

It's nerves, it's only for an afternoon. Feel so ill, upset tummy, shaking, feel sick to my stomach, been up a lot in night going through classroom conversations in my head

[littlesupersparks]

Why are you so nervous? X

[TheHappyCamper]

What's making you so nervous? Have you done supply before? x

[SavoyCabbage]

You are doing supply for a year 3/4 class this afternoon and you have never been to a school before? Or this school?

In any case, how bad can it be? It's a short time and this age is really fun.

[HagOtheNorth]

Do you mean never been to this school before, or it's your first job on supply?
Get through it, or you'll never manage in September. It's for less than 3 hours, you can do it!

[Rosieliveson]

I'm sure it will be fine. I remember doing supply in year 5/6 for the first time. I had only taught as high as yr3 in my own classss. I was really nervous AND was covering PE but it was actually pretty good fun and the time flew! You'll be great

[JoffreyBaratheon]

I only did Y 5/6 on teaching practice, years ago, so was nervous when I did daily supply and found myself landed with Y1. Not only Infants but small ones! Had never so much as stepped foot in an Infants classroom since I was 6, myself! It was fine. Confirmed for me I'd never want to teach kids that age and I'd avoid jobs with younger kids ever afterwards, but I lived to tell the tale.

Oddest (and best as it turned out) supply job I ever had was when a teacher ran sobbing out of school at lunchtime and I was asked to cover the afternoon. It was a right-on trendy school where the kids called you by first name (and a private school so the kids were incredibly spoiled and entitled) but it turned out to be a permanent, part time gig, and the kids who had reduced my predecessor to a sobbing wreck, were lovely with me. You never know.

[downgraded]

I do a lot of supply.

I detach myself really - if unsuitable or incomplete work has been left then I've got a few tricks up my sleeve, but I'm not going to lose any sleep if the kids end up doing quiet reading for a lesson.

Don't be afraid to be honest with the kids either. I'll quite often set them a quiet three minute task and tell them I need to get my head around the lesson I'm teaching...

You can only be as good as the work you are left, and at the end of the day you're a body in the room, which is all they need when it's just a day or half day cover.

[Rosieliveson]

Hope it went well

[unpackyoursuitcase]

Thanks everyone, it went really well, I printed off a rainforest animal poem, gave a verse to each group and they had to perform it to the rest of the class, what a dad tie I am.,

[HagOtheNorth]

That sounded like a perfect activity for them, you know what you are doing.
So why the panic, and will it happen again when you face a class after 6 or 7 weeks off?

[unpackyoursuitcase]

I have no idea why yesterday was so bad, was a local school. Would love to go back and do it all again, thanks for all the "YOU CAN DO IT" messages. Supply in a school I go to regularly today, no idea what class or what I will be teaching but no nerves at all