To be dreading going back to work!

Why have they started roadworks on major routes😕

Glad I’m not alone. I hear you. I go back Thursday after having 7 weeks off due to personal reasons. I really don’t want to go back. Not a teacher but work in emotionally demanding role. Wish I spent more time looking for a new job but grass isn’t always greener.

I think dealing with the attitude of teenagers and the entitlement of parents who protect their children from consequences of their hideous behaviour must be soul destroying. Hopefully a few nice ones in each class to offset the horrid

@Type2whattodo what a bloody horrible attitude YOU have.

A few nice ones to offset the horrid? Like the human population between 11 and 17 are largely vile? I work with teenagers - they are lovely in the main - and they are not a homogeneous entity anymore than "children", "the elderly", "middle aged people" or any other age group you'd like to generalise about!

I’m a teacher and subject leader and feel sick at the idea of it all starting up again. 7 weeks, that’s all I’m clinging onto.

I'm back Tuesday after being signed off for 9 weeks with depression. I'm not a teacher, but I have the summer holiday depressions

I'm not a teacher or a ta but going back to work on the 9th after a few months off due to personal stuff happening . Dreading it

Teacher starting back tomorrow too (two INSET days thankfully) - can’t sleep!

To those who said there are more sen issues in younger years in schools- from nhs perspective I agree.

I think there are several factors I've seen:

Erosion of special school places and funding for support for children with SEN, meaning mainstream teachers will have more children with sen in their classes and be asked to 'do more with less'.

The covid lockdowns appear to have amplified sensory issues in some of the children I work with. Whether it revealed them early, or meant children were socialised a different way I don't know.

I can see the effects physically - more children seem to have poor core stability and function compared to older kids, amplified by increasing screen time and decreasing time outdoors on playgrounds/ bikes etc. The lack of core stability means poor sitting postures, which means difficulty paying attention and impacts on posture in writing.

Don't get me started on attention. My 9yo is terrible and so are her peers. Helping out in cubs every now and then is enlightening....

I'm half dreading the kids returning to school and half desparate for it myself.

Trying to work FT alongside 6 weeks of summer holidays with no grandparents to help, Is a huge challenge and I am done!

Trying to keep up with multiple childrens school schedules/ homework/sporting events/ parent engagement workshops is exhausting for parents, never mind the kids and teachers.

I wish life was more forgiving all round!!

Every year and it's:"is this the year they sack me?" 22 years and I still don't feel good enough. I don't know how those teachers who end up slt at 32 do it. Where does the confidence come from? How can they cope with all the extra work? How can they cope with all the bollocks they have to spout?

And how many years do I have to work until I take my full pension? Some say 35, so I'd be 57, but others say until I'm 68.

Can’t believe I’ve probably got another 20 years of this 😭

No it really isn't.

But a lot of teachers want to leave teaching currently so it will add to it.

You do realise that most people dread going back to work, it’s not restricted to teachers.

Did anyone say it was? <scans thread> Nope.

I’m not a teacher any more but I still have the fear this time of year

And I no longer have to listen to “ new innovative ways of using a number line/ let’s completely scrap our reading scheme and start a new/rehashed phonics one/completely change the behaviour policy that we completely changed last September/go on a course to learn about a new/convoluted time consuming method of marking/learn a new set of acronyms “ sort of nonsense.
I used to love my job back in the late 70’s 80’s and 90’s

If it fills you with dread, why not change careers? TA’s aren’t paid very well so would get the same or more doing something else. It’s only the holidays that are good.

I know someone who is a TA and she hates it. Her kids are late teens now so there is no reason at all to stay in the job but she does anyway and then feels like this every Sunday and end of holidays. I don’t understand it.

@Yellowaveo59 Good luck, I go back October half term and I am considering running away …

I’ve been retired from teaching for 8 years after 40 years - I’ll be thinking of you all tomorrow as I have done every September since I finished. I honestly wish looking back I’d been brave enough to change careers. The last 10 years of my teaching career steadily got more difficult in every way. I can only imagine how much harder it has become now.
September 1 st is now completely different for me.

Single academy. Marking expectations is 5 books per lesson (live marking). One assessment per term, per class. We finish at 3. My plan is to stay until 4pm every evening. Lessons all have a scheme of work planned out and I just need to adapt them for the class. I think I can do this during PPA time. I also plan to get in 45 mins early every morning and do some bits then.

Like I said, ask me again in a week 🤣

@SmallChanges3 how are you going to do that? Can you stay at school til 6 or similar to do the planning and marking? I found in my first few years I was so exhausted I'd rather go home first and do it in the evening and always a day at the weekend..

Or is it one of those Michaela esque schools where it's all pre scripted and no marking?

Same situation here, I’ve tried to make the last day as busy as possible to avoid thinking about it!

Starting new job tomorrow. Loving the idea ( Lord help me) because I know what I left behind

@Cherrysoup I do approx 0.6 fte. Some of my colleagues do more, some less. I googled ‘online school’, checked out the websites and applied to the ones which appealed to me. When I started teaching online there were far fewer online schools. The sector has mushroomed since Covid.

I'm a teacher. First year ECT (secondary English) after completing my PGCE/QTS in July. I loved and hated my teacher training for different reasons, but one thing I promised myself is that I won't take work home unless it's for exams.

I've spent the evening doing self care: face mask, foot mask, deep hair conditioner, tea, snacks. Haven't thought about work tomorrow and am not dreading it. My little boy also starts school (reception) on Wednesday. I'm sad I won't get to take him to school on his first day.

I'll let you know how I feel in a week's time 🤣

May the odds be in your favour everyone.

Same here. Year 6 TA and for the first time in 10 years I don’t want to go back. The level of need across the school has sky rocketed over the last few years and this years cohort will be difficult but nothing in comparison to what is coming up behind. This will be my last year, planning on leaving May half term after SATS if I last that long.