If I became a teacher, would I be able to not need childcare during school holidays?

[Twiglett]

or is that naive?

(assuming I work in the same LEA as my children's school .. I understand I would need before and after-school care)

Also and sorry for hijack here...are there any other teachers out there who recognise this little pen portrait?:

Screaming monster in term time, nice kind mummy in holidays.....I seem to undergo a personality transplant, and so do most of my colleagues......AND, I enjoy what I do.

I recently got accepted on a PGCE course and know it is going to be hell on wheels.

I'm already looking in to childcare pre and after school for DS (he will be in year 1) because I have no-one else to care for him before/after school - my mum will be able to do some but not every day.

I have been volunteering in schools for 4 years now and am fully aware of how it all works/the workload and TBH, as long as you are disciplined and keep to a routine it doesn't seem unmanageable.

I can't wait to get qualified - it is all I've ever wanted to do and as a single parent, having the holidays at similar times is a huge bonus (even if I have to do paperwork at home during!)

Yep the pen-portrait hits the spot.

My dad in his father-of-the-bride speech said he'd had a fairly supercilious impression of teaching but having been in contact with them for over ** years, both in his professional life, as a PTA member, governor and having benefited most directly as a parent what respect he'd come to have for teachers (he was in a room full of 'em) the long hours, their dedication and because unlike any profession, you had to hit the ground running and be at the top of your game from the word off.

The school I taught in (which was an independent school) I arrived between 7:30 and 7:45 (after a 45 mile commute!!!), worked through lunch breaks, finished teaching at 7:00, then drove home and then did my marking/preparation. I also had to work 8-1 on a Saturday and an hour on a Sunday (bearing in mind this entailed a 90 mile round trip...). During term time I did not go out, see anyone, have any sort of life at all.

Holidays are great though. Independents make you work longer hours, but you do get longer holidays.

I stopped classroom teaching when ds1 was born (still do music teaching, but not in school), as was no way it would tie in with having a child. I would simply never see them.

Congrats LewisFan and Good Luck too.
My Mum always jokes that she breaks down not up at the end of each half term.

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I've said it before (but it went down well so I'll say it again )

Everyone thinks they know about teaching, because we have all been to school.

This is as logical as saying you know about baking because you have bought buns.