anyone else being driven mad by pupils they teach?

[DebitheScot]

having a moan coz I'm stressed! I'm a secondary school teacher and am being driven mad by pupils. Its nice that they care but the 3million questions I keep getting asked about the baby over and over again are beginning to get really annoying.

And I'm currently covering for one of the many ill teachers, the class are doing pretty much nothing except giving me a headache.

IME most of them will only be asking because they think you'll forget to teach them so you can talk about your baby for the whole lesson! they're not stupid!

I'm sure its only a matter of time - mine don't know yet! although funnily enough, they used to ask me if I was pg from time to time when I wasn't, no one has asked me since i am!!

it took mine ages to realise I was pregnant - although with dd2 I left when I was about 16 weeks pregnant. I simply with each class I taught spent the first 5 minutes of one lesson telling them - yes I am pregnant, no I do not know what I am having ( although I did), we are not worried whether it is a boy or a girl, no I am no longer chucking up.... and then said right no more questions - time to get to work.

They are doing it as a work avoidance tactic.

some of mine took ages to realise too, they're not very observant.

when do you think a good time to stop work is? I've stopping at 34 weeks (but might come in and do my yr11s for a couple of wks after that)

With dd1 I stopped at 36 + 4 weeks - which was when school broke up for the summer break. Dd1 was born Aug 1st. However in the last few weeks I had no classes of an afternoon and so was able to have someone else cover my prep class so I could leave at 1pm - made a difference. Not having to drive home through peak hour traffic, being able to have a rest in the afternoon.... not being in class during that late afternoon heat.

oops with dd2 -we had moved to Aus and I was not working. Had we stayed I would have worked until the same sort of time - dd2 was due early Nov so I probably would have worked until the Oct mid term.