Staff Room!!!

[ScienceTeacher]

It was suggested on another thread that we should have a staff room, so I thought I'd bite the bullet and start one.

Shall we introduce ourselves?

I teach Science (Physics A-level and GCSE Chemistry plus the usual general science in KS3, and also KS3 Geography). I work in a small girls' independent school. I started this job in September having spent two years in contract and supply. This was a getting back to teaching after an 8-year maternity leave.

I am a mum to five children from 16 (gcse!) TO 5.

Jan have a bisuit too.

Glad you had a nice day.

MB have you had a nice day?

good in school

I took year 5 swimming today. They were very good.

Brave!

I can only (just) cope with the bigguns, littlies leave me worn out!

I have realised that I do not have a talent for fixing swimming goggles though!

Me too - the little ones terrify me! I do a series of workshops for our new Yr 7s, when they are finishing yr 6 each year and it feels like teaching aliens!

Ahh I like every group, I even like nursery but my favourite is secondary.

You can't win with my lot - 'Missss it's toooo hot' blimey last week it was too cold to work, not it's too hot. We do ahve south facing classrooms and yes they are like a furnace but even so....

let's hope tomorrow's lot are a bit keener! Lots of year 7 though......

Hello LC its going to be hot tomorrow too I think.

and the year sixes all throw their hands up in to the air, 'Misssssssssssssssssssssssssss I've finishedddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'

and ask things like, 'Do I turn the page over'

Bless!

LOL

They usually call me 'mum' actually!

I've been called Dad before now. I put it down to my very low voice and incipient mustache!

I was on a course in London today, so I missed 6 back-to-back lessons with Y9 and double Y7.

My course was about teaching the new Physics A-level. Most of it was a duplicate of the freebie courses they ran in the autumn, except for about 2 hours where we marked exemplar practical material. Lunch was nice, and it was lovely walking through a very atmospheric Covent Garden on the way back to Waterloo.

I'm out again tomorrow, taking Y8 on Geography field trip, where they are doing a river study. Fortunately, the field centre staff do all the teaching, so my colleague and I will just be doing minor supervision.

LOL (again)

I usually only work Fridays today was extra.Some of them definitely need help turning over the pages! Why do they always ask whether they have to write the date? We always write the flippin date!

ST I love muddy rivers. I took my class last term.

ST where do you take them?

Field trips are why I teach what I do

LC what do you teach?

We are going to Juniper Hall in Dorking.

ST enjoy your day. Nice idea for a thread by the way.

Bye everyone have a nice evening.

Soory I abandoned you billybass! I teach Geography - we are off to the Lakes with year 10 in June - twice as we have to go in the minibuses!

Very nice sunbathing fieldwork today. The river was fab, and the field centre staff excellent.

I wish I was out on field trips today. P5 today I was covering second half of a 2-hr History lesson with a dodgy group of yr9s, and the teacher hadn't left enough work! That was fun

Nightmare, Roisin! Did you manage to cobble together something for them, or were they a lost cause?

I'm used to making things up on the spur of the moment, and carry around a few resources and lots of ideas! Fortunately they were working on a topic I know a lot about, which makes it much easier.

But it's certainly not ideal.

Todays funny! Two year 8 girls during a lesson, one beckoned me over & said they thought I'd better tell the teacher that his flies were undone

I have never seen a bloke go so red.
I didn't let on to him that it was the girls that noticed !!