To offer to go to the bar and buy every teacher a drink?

[TheHoneyBadger]

Greetings, salutations and congratulations to every teacher who made it to half term with their health and sanity semi-intact.

AIBU to say that if I wasn't a poor single parent living on a 0.4fte salary I would go to the bar and offer to buy every single one of you a drink.

Well fucking done! Make sure you get at least a couple of days solid no school work rest.

Even if the bashers still think we're lazy, workshy, overpaid marxists we know the actual realities of what we've ploughed through this term!

Give yourself a huge pat on the back and a large drink/slice of cake/netflix binge/insert your unhealthy reward of choice!

You're amazing. Don't let the bastards get you down.

I feel like I've worked a year and a half in the last few weeks and wish all my colleagues in my school and all schools a bloody good rest. Nicest bit of today was so many of my gorgeous yr8, 9, 10 and 11 students wishing us a good rest and sayjng thank you for their lessons - that was lovely. Worst bit: dropping most of my marking on the way to the car. Will be marking lying down because i absolutely havent kept up this term in spite or regularly working until after 11pm and am feeling my age. Well done all school staff

Agree, all you teachers are amazing , thank you.x

Promise you won't even look at it till Wednesday Sarah! (So long as I don't share groups with you and I am waiting to here where you're up to/what's occurred in the last couple of weeks where you've gone quiet lol) Have a break.

It would depend on which teacher - some have been fab and some have been as shit as usual.

The Covid rules within the school are bent and ignored when it suits while the HT tells us how amazingly well they are all keeping to the rules - my kids reveal the real level of adherence they observe, it’s a bit of a farce really but as long as we all keep pretending...,get the Gin out!

Your kids reveal the real level do they 😙

I wonder how much your kids themselves follow the guidance, so many parents with not a clue what their child gets up to but get your gin out anyway..

Have a virtual drink from me too. My kids are adults (unfortunately their experience from university staff is mixed) but having schools open means that staff can come to work, and they want to be there, not everyone has the kind of job and/or the kind of home to work effectively there.

WE MADE IT!!!!

@MintyMabel

What a lovely post.

Yeah, lovely to see people patting themselves on the back.😉

I was speaking to the staff at our school, told them how well they had done. They were really quite humble about the success of the term, the words were “lots of people have had it a lot worse than us”

I’m impressed by what they’ve done but always rather put off by people tooting their own horn.

Not to be rude but this is literally my first term in teaching and it’s been amazing but really tough, I’ve done basically nothing other than teach and sleep. Am I not allowed to be proud of myself? Are other teachers not allowed to celebrate getting to half term? I appreciate that of course lots of people have it harder than us - but someone always has it harder, and that doesn’t mean people aren’t allowed to feel proud. I’m sorry but I’m not going to play down what I have achieved, for once in my life.

But that’s the British way @year5teacher 😂 stay humble, don’t celebrate yourself or others! Well done 🍷🥂

My Ds school has been amazing in the way this very difficult last term has been handled. I couldn't speak more highly of them. Enjoy your break!

Just had my half term, so return in Monday. I've had a great 'holiday', going into work everyday trying to catch up ready for the busy run up to Christmas. Worked 10-12 hours each day of my 'holiday'. Yesterday at 6pm a parent called me, very angry - why had I not sent feedback for her daughter's assignment yet? She gave it to me a week ago, it was due in September. You can't win, some people have no idea what we have to get done. Mines a double g&t please, cheers!

Well done to all teaching and non teaching colleagues. We've managed to get to half term without a single case and no bubbles have burst. Went into tier three last week and the children were really panicked about another lockdown. Bless them they have been really great since they came back and really appreciative of everything. It's been a slog this term but so worth it. Mine's a double G&T!

@freeandfierce

Just had my half term, so return in Monday. I've had a great 'holiday', going into work everyday trying to catch up ready for the busy run up to Christmas. Worked 10-12 hours each day of my 'holiday'. Yesterday at 6pm a parent called me, very angry - why had I not sent feedback for her daughter's assignment yet? She gave it to me a week ago, it was due in September. You can't win, some people have no idea what we have to get done. Mines a double g&t please, cheers!

I do hope you hung up on the ignorant parent, teachers shouldn't have to waste time like that, they shouldn't even have teachers' numbers unless school provides a pay as you go that can be locked away during the holidays!

Well done !! I am in awe of all you staff . Enjoy the break.

Thank you! Lovely comments much appreciated It’s been a bloody hard half-term.

I started this and then went awol. Hope it helped to give people permission to give themselves a pat on the back (haters gonna hate).

I had a very very chilled weekend, did a bit of planning work yesterday just because I woke up early and felt like it and then went to the gym. Off to the gym again today after a hard morning of drinking coffee and putting away the delivered groceries and reading and responding to emails from a trainee.

I deliberately worked flat out the last couple of weeks to ensure I didn't have to take home marking or have assessments to record etc. I'm considering that if I am going to work this half term it may be to get ahead on myself on interim reports for ks3 so all I have to do in November when the deadline hits is look and check if there are outliers who've changed dramatically in terms of effort or homework or behaviour.

Otherwise it's about chilling, exercise and trying to get a hold on the shit tip this house has become since September.