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Pregnant teacher, paranoid about colleague?

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bumbleclat · 22/06/2016 02:40

Has anyone else's work place started explicitly making plans for when you go/went on ML?

I love my career (teacher) and it feels really horrible to hear the governors and head making plans already (I'm only 14 weeks)

My head teacher told me her action plan today for when I go off on ML today and the other teacher in the (very small school) who has been friendly up until now (this is my first year) has randomly become really off with me and unhelpful.

For example, subtle things like not replying when I say good morning and not helping when my ICT equipment breaks even through he is the ICT guy, the printer in my classroom has broken and I've told him on several occasions over the past 7 days (there are only 3 classes in my school) and he is just saying "it's a network error" but not helping with it, even though I really rely on this printer to write plans for my 3 Teaching assistants and he knows this :(

He used to come into my classroom every morning and say hello, he is avoiding eye contact and just being odd, which is disconcerting in a school of just 2 teachers and a teaching head.

My mum's battling leukaemia and I haven't been able to drive 6 hours round trip to see her due to constant nausea and drowsy making anti-nausea tablets all the while maintaining a happy and professional attitude at work.

I have regularly had to let friends and family down lately because I'm always so bloody sick and they're all off the radar, including my sister.

Despite all of this^^^ I've successfully got through two moderations of late: Key stage 1 and Early Years, written all 28 of my reports, with 10 days to go until the deadline and continued to teach my three year groups, full time despite loosing sleep due to all night vomit sessions.

Felling sorry for myself tonight :(

Maybe pregnancy hormones, but I just feel that everyone's expecting me to be so over the moon about this pregnancy that I'm just left to run backwards, whilst singing in tune, wearing high heels and without sweating

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ceebie · 22/06/2016 11:56

It sounds like you could do with tackling it head on and asking if there is a particular issue or problem.

However, given that it is so close to the summer holidays, perhaps you could just hang on in there and then see what the atmosphere is like in September? Maybe he'll get past this attitude over the summer.

I assume that this has been your first year at this school? From his point of view, it must be incredibly disruptive to have a new teacher start and then in a relatively short space of time disappear off again. I'm not saying it's reasonable of him to have such an attitude (it's not), but that would seem a probable source of the cause. And who's to say that you won't come back after mat leave only to disappear on a second period of maternity leave after that? It's sadly unavoidable that colleagues often view maternity leave as a major inconvenience to them, which in fairness it is (having been on mat leave twice myself).