Staff Room!!!

just my luck really. Maybe I'm stuck with supply for a while....

There seem to be jobs around here - but part-time science posts are like hens teeth...
It will depend on your phase/subject how many posts there are I suppose - science/physics is in relatively good demand. This seems to mean that all posts will be made up to full-time in order to get more/better applicants.

I'm in Cambridge. Jobs are like hen's teeth round here.

I'm applying for a return to teaching course in Leeds MamaPyjama...

Feel a bit depressed by how lacking in curiosity, disinterested and disengaged so many of the Y11 I've seen whilst supply teaching are. Feel as though the system is failing so many of them ...

Can I lurk here? I've recently (just last month) escaped from years teaching maths and IT in an FE college.

I had a year 10 boy crack the most massive fart in the lesson today. Trouble was they were all silent waiting me to start an IAA.

Queue a 60 minute halt while they all calmed down.

I have to mark it soon, I wonder how they all did.......

[snigger] at fizzbuzz.

Listening (reading?) you lot I almost miss it...

Has anyone done a Return to Teaching course? The local polyversity offers one - is it worthwhile? I will have been out eight years by the time I go back!

last summer we had wasps falling through the lights from the false roof in the room I was in, but as there were never any free room we had to stay there. So scary!

Marmaduke, I find wind of the other variety just as bad......creats just as much chaos.

They don't teach that on a PGCE do they? How to deal with farting kids.

Colleague in English dept got so sick of one kid doing this, that she actually sent a letter home asking if the parents could perhaps take their son to the doctors to sort out his "severe flatulance problem"

fizzbuzz with you on the snow - mid listening comp with Y9, 'eee miss man its snowing!' so, that was the end of my tolerance

Cod I think as others have said you will be top of mainscale still, will have to go through threshold to get ups1

A school near us won an award for PHSE. I don't think they ever did any posters BUT, when the Afgan war was on (i think it was then)they got a memebr of the armed forces to speak to the kids one week, and a Quaker to speak the next week. This was to Y10...

I used to give them posters to keep them quiet I loathed it so much AND we never had any training on drugs, but we still had to deliver it to Y10 at the time. Actually, I don't loathe it at all, I think it is really valuable and important, but needs to be done properly. Not by some teacher who loathes teaching it, and has grabbed a handful of worksheets out of a cabinet that morning. (along with the rest of the cursing staff)

Hello (sits down hoping not on anyone's favourite chair). I teach 11 - 16 English in a 1500 mixed comp. 102C doing my nut at mo but year 11 are lovely. Emits hollow laugh at marking. Also doing work with SEN department on testing.

Cod - you should be looking at M6, ie, the one before you move onto threshold. Go to TES website and they give you the gradings.

I have to teach Citizenship which used to be called PHSE but as Head is a big cheese in examining Citizenship that's what it is called now. I HATE doing it. One kid accurately described it as 'watch that video, read that page, fill in the worksheet, make a poster' Couldn't have put it better.

Top of MPS until you pass threshold I believe...

i need help on salary
i was top of scale( no threshold) in 2001

what scale am i on now

TGIF glass of red anyone?

Bet that entertained Y8 for a bit then, not that it would keep them quite, becasue nothing ever does that.

It was my pupils who told me about hairspray/deoderant trick with marker pens. So so keen to help, rushing to the front with their never ending supply of random sprays........

Meanwhile can I ask how snow affects your pupils? A few flakes fell yesterday, and Y10 rush to the window gazing out at it Have they never seen it before?
Causes almost as much trouble as wasp/bee in the room. Had to send an entire Y8 class back into corridor to line up and calm down as one small wasp arrived in room. They were going mad, and me WHO IS ALLERGIC TO WASP STINGS had to control them

Donk, Read the sheet out to anyone who is near or pin it up on the notice board.

Supply Teacher washes mug, dries it and puts it away tidily, then wanders off again thinking 'bugger - nobody wants the damn handover sheets!'

Buggery bollocks - any ideas for a Year 7 English lesson tomorrow. I only see them once a fortnight (I know I know - shit timetabling) so I forget about them till the night before. Lesson is 50 minutes. It's period 5 tomorrow so get the ideas coming!

Fizzbuzz I wish I could! I only get on here about once a week! Need to look at my time management skills... I get 2 hrs PPA but use it to get my DDs from school then work evenings.......

Spudmasher, can't you start one? That's how this started. You can always come here though After all "we are all in this together"

I used to know someone, who claimed the collective noun for a group of teacher, was a "whinge" or a "moan", eg a whinge of teachers

Don't know him any more.......but we are still a group. Can anyone think of a better name?

Roisin - we have a similar situation with 3 of our local secondaries (not where I work though). Lots of people vvvv worried. What will happen to your jobs if the academy goes ahead - will you have to apply for posts? Good luck & hope you get the right outcome