Ahhhh I accidentally sent a grammatically incorrect email for potential teaching job!!

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Agency asked if I'd like a long-term position and whether it's okay to give details to the head. They gave my details and the headteacher emailed me last night about my experience etc.
I got a bit overexcited at the prospect of a long-term role and sent an email in a haste.

Think of using "During university, Literacy was my specialism but I do enjoy teaching Maths and Art".
"However, supply has helped me become more experienced and develop confidence in the different areas of learning as, when I was a day-to-day supply, I often had to teach the lessons which were there on the day."

Of course there was to it but I am cringing at my email!! I am very experienced and my email just makes me sound "bleh". I am hoping my agency can still vouch for me as that email does not represent me at all.

Hadn’t got caught up. Your grasp of grammar and sentence structure isn’t great OP. In our dept we would take that pretty seriously. Depends on the subject and school I guess.

‘To develop’

I shouldn't worry. DD's report came home this year saying she has a friendly manor.

Then the new teacher presentation thing we went to was full of spelling errors on the PowerPoint slides.

Or maybe not. It is all quite clunky though.

OP, your email sounds fine. I bet they won't even pick up on a problem.

I'm a terrible pedant and like to get my SPAG correct but long ago, when applying for my first teaching job, I realised after I'd posted the application that I'd spelled 'development' wrongly. This wasn't because I didn't know the spelling - it was genuinely a typo. It was fine.

I care about spelling and grammar, but honestly, very few other people seem to, so it's possible that whoever receives you email won't care either!!

Good luck.

DS’s school report has his name misspelled throughout and includes a sentence saying ‘X has took’.

I’m not sure how his form teacher has managed to never learn how his name is spelled (one of two standard spellings snd she must see his name written down all the time) but it hardly matters. The grammatical thing is probably just the inevitable result of trying to get through all the reports in a short space of time and not having time to proofread. It doesn’t reflect her teaching ability.

People make mistakes. Autocorrect messes with emails. None of it is the end of the world. IME, as soon as anyone mentions their literacy skills (or anything) the odds of making a typo increase!

If that is word for word, then I spot misuse of capitals, and misplaced commas.

Not the end of the world op. Just depends how much of a pedant the recipient is.

Good luck with the job hunt.

I doubt they’ll notice. Can’t count the amount of grammar and spelling errors I’ve seen from my DCs teachers and even head teachers!

Don’t worry about it. I’ve found that the majority of job offers hinge on the first impression given at job interview, it’s pot luck if the interviewer connects and likes you. There’s a lot of research to support this, apparently ppl make a decision within 7 seconds or something ridiculous like that.

You can use ‘however’ at the start of a sentence