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How exhausted are you all?

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petalpower · 26/06/2013 22:19

On a scale of 1-10 just how exhausted are all you teachers at the moment? Every colleague (primary and secondary) I speak to is jus about dead on their feet. Why is it so bad for us at the moment? I think I'm a good 8.5 on the scale at the moment!

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Lostmykeys · 26/06/2013 22:22

Beyond exhausted. Can't work it out and need something to prop me up for the next couple of weeks.

cilldara · 26/06/2013 22:24

Absolutely wrecked but I'm in Ireland and we are finished on Friday!! Oh happy day!

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petalpower · 26/06/2013 22:25

I should be writing reports now and planning and reading a document for a meeting that's tomorrow afternoon. So tired though and wondering if I go to bed now I'll be able to sleep then could get up at 5 to do the things I should be doing now. How mad is this?

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Lostmykeys · 26/06/2013 22:27

Mad but sometimes easier to get up early. No one sees this side of the job!

ninah · 26/06/2013 22:29

7

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petalpower · 26/06/2013 22:31

Also have no kitchen (builders ripped it out on Monday), a birthday party for 17x11 year old girls to organise on Sunday, visitors for the weekend, husband working away, reports due on Friday .....

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MrsShrek3 · 26/06/2013 22:35

fairly. reports nearly finished and doing a consolidation week to secure some concepts and assess levels. next week looks like utter chaos Hmm

barebranches · 26/06/2013 22:36

im sooo tired. and as soon as one thing is done another crops up... plus im 7 weeks preg so even more in need of my bed! summer ....hurry... we need you!!

RNJ3007 · 26/06/2013 22:39

I'm an 11... But then I'm still teaching full time for 3.5 more weeks, at 31w pregnant with Hyperemesis and SPD and zero understanding from SLT that I need to sit during class sometimes or I will collapse.

Roll on Summer Hols!

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petalpower · 26/06/2013 22:42

Why is it so hard for all of us? I would start counting down the weeks and days but there's so much to fit in before the end of term!

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LauraPashley · 26/06/2013 23:33

Very! BUT my last day is tomorrow Grin!!

mignonette · 26/06/2013 23:38

Well think of us poor nurses when you are on your Summer break.....Wink

suze28 · 26/06/2013 23:41

I'm two days off finishing my final teaching practice with two more uni days, then my PGCE is done. I'm tired but not as bad as I thought. I'm fully expecting it to hit me next week once I stop!

Arisbottle · 26/06/2013 23:43

Although I have taken this evening off to see my daughter in a show, so I have to be up at 5am to mark a set of tests, so it may be closer to 7 tomorrow morning,

roughtyping · 27/06/2013 08:24

10! I finished work for summer yesterday. Went on leaving night/my work hen night and to my shame, left at 10 with a pounding headache and barely able to keep my eyes open. Felt really horrible. But now, 6 weeks to sort myself out/sleep/get married!

GetStuffezd · 27/06/2013 18:28
  1. Going to bed early and still waking up feeling like I've been whacked with a bag of wet sand. Permanently gritty, itchy eyes.
BrigitBigKnickers · 28/06/2013 10:31

10 and we still have over three weeks left- don't break up till the 23rd...Sad

Fed up with scrutiny scrutiny scrutiny from SMT (main school in RI and awaiting HMI any minute.) I wouldn't mind so much but my part of the ofsted was outstanding...(in all four areas of the report- something the SMT haven't even acknowledged...)

If one more person talks about success criteria (which we have to provide differentiated at least three ways for every lesson) I will scream!

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petalpower · 28/06/2013 19:52

We have three weeks left too Brigit. At least it's the weekend! Wondering how long I can stay awake for - 9pm is looking the max at the moment.

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MarianForrester · 28/06/2013 19:56

Ok, tried to stop myself, but just maybe the six to eight weeks of forthcoming holiday will help.....? Grin

mignonette · 28/06/2013 20:05

Ha ha Marian. Our teacher friends have the grace to look a little embarrassed at my DH's face when they talk about exhaustion and not being able to wait for the long holidays. He runs his own building company (used to be a senior nurse manager), works 6 days a week from 7 until 6, paperwork too and doesn't get that holiday as he doesn't even get sick pay/holiday pay. He doesn't complain, enjoys his work but honestly, a teacher made to do what he does (and a nurse/lawyer etc) would collapse within a week let alone a term...Smile

MiaWallace · 28/06/2013 20:14

A 7. Survived OFSTED last week but feeling drained this week. Plus have another 4 weeks to go!

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petalpower · 28/06/2013 20:30

I don't think that anyone outside the teaching profession really knows what it's like. I don't want this to turn into a teacher bashing/long holidays thread. That's why it's in 'The Staffroom' topic. I'd argue that being up at 5.30am report writing, doing a full day in the classroom and then working until 11pm is a pretty full day in anyone's book.

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Arisbottle · 28/06/2013 20:33

It is intense, but in short bursts. I work long days because I choose not to work in the holidays. If I was willing to work in the holidays my days would be much shorter .

MarianForrester · 28/06/2013 21:21

Ok, shall bow out and hide this topic

mignonette · 28/06/2013 21:33

I have worked in Nurse Ed and one of my sibs is a teacher as well as my two closest friends of thirty years. I do know. I am not seeking to cause unpleasantness but I am seeing a lack of perspective and my teacher friends/relatives are the first to acknowledge this. Many many people work those hours all year round. They really do. My day starts at 7 after being on call two nights per week. I finish at half six then have notes to write up, professional education to legally keep up with, meetings and reviews involving driving across the country if one of my clients is in a prison/special hospital out of area and i get nothing in lieu nor payment for these travel hours....DH works longer hours with no holiday cover at all. Perspective sorely required.