How much work have you brought home?

[HettyD]

I have yr11 books to mark, c.50 yr9 assessments, some yr12essays, 12 yr13 portfolios...and 1/2 a scheme of work to write. Really don't want to put DCs into childcare in the holidays but might just have to. Does this seem normal or excessive?!

I have 54 GCSE media essays, 26 media cwk portfolios, 120 iGCSE pieces, 40 lit essays and 14 year 7 assessments. I've left all the A level stuff and marking at school. This half term is always horrendous, I always book 3 days of childcare and head into work for full days.
However tomorrow - day off!

Supply - nowt. Not smug, just bloody angry humble that the system revolves around women people doing a crazy an unsustainable workload

Just 45 past papers. I worked like a demon today to get all the books marked and all my trainee teachers reviewed and sorted for their 'reading week'. Had to keep it to the minimum as DH is off on his school ski trip so just me and my boys this week.

Prepare a nursery budget
Analyse a phonics intervention group results
Medium term plan for next half term
First week's planning
New starter information for the Easter intake
Update 12 EYFS profiles
Write 12 sets of individual targets
Check 3 colleagues' key group planning
Print out next half term's registers
Signs for a wall display

And about a million other small things.

I need to do some planning/prep but am (thankfully) up to date with marking at the moment.

60 Eng Lang Mocks
30 Eng Lit Mocks

(the last round of these KO'd Xmas).

60 Eng Lit Controlled Assessments
30 Year 11 books

& a new Scheme of Learning for Lord of the Flies, including sample resources, to bring in for discussion first day back.

All the admin for 2x overnight trips to London & most of it for a week in Greece...

So actually not so bad compared with Spring Bank when the 500 GCSE Eng Lit scripts turn up!

I feel better. Assessments from one yr 7 class, one yr 8, one year 9 and two year 11s. Homework from three classes and coursework from two year 10 classes. Oh and A2 test questions and a handful of essays.

Pass the prosecco!!

Shit - & year 8 reports.

I no longer teach them; I had to take over colleague's y11 group when she had her breakdown & left unexpectedly - but they've had supply all half term so I'll need to go through & mark their books (which I've left in school so will have to go in to collect them) before bodging together a set of reports.

In short: too bloody much. The main thing I have to do this half term is work on getting my stress levels down so I don't have a breakdown. Seriously. I am HOD and so many supply teachers and pressure on results had driven me close to the edge.

None, like signora I'm on supply.
Lasy year was the first time I watched my beautiful rose tree bloom without thinking 'Oh Fuck, reports, assessments, levels of progress, PP meetings...'
That's what it's always symbolised, now it's a reminder that I made the right choice.

'but they've had supply all half term so I'll need to go through & mark their books '

That's one of the reasons I get repeat work, I always mark books. Why accept a supply that won't?

For the first time ever in the 10 years I've been teaching - a half class set of extended writing only (and year 1/2 so not much to read - it's the time taken to decipher it....). I had a GTP second school placement person whose final week was this week so she did most of the teaching and marking, which enabled me to catch up with a lot of tidying up loose ends, marking homework projects etc which I would normally do in the holidays.

BUT - I've handed in my notice to go at Easter so I'm compiling lists of all the things I need to do before the end of term. The biggest of which is writing up my NPQSL project - something which I should have taken a whole school year to work on, but I now need to get as close to finished as I can this week so I can spend the next 5 weeks chasing round collecting any missing evidence etc so it's finished by the time I go. I also want to make a head start on the end of year reports I've been asked to write - am going to combine that with writing parents' evening notes and try to kill 2 birds with 1 stone...

25 y13 language investigations to mark, one set of y12 lit essays and one set of y12 Lang essays. My ks4 books are up to date and don't really teach ks3. It's not that bad actually, I think I can do it all in a day.

Book Day planning, new assertive mentoring planning, usual planning, SPAG papers to mark, 30 maths books, 30 literacy books, data analysis and booster session planning, subject leader report to write and foundation plans to imagine.

The next half term is too short to squish everything in! Mind you, i'll be in school for most of Easter leading booster sessions.

I've got two sets of books, two sets of projects, year 11 controlled assessments, two sets of year 11 past papers. Then Ive got to write end of year exams based on new curriculum for 3 year groups. I also have to plan some after school revision for the year 11s for next half term. This is in addition to all the 'normal' planning I have to do. I only work 2.5 days a week!

Going to start today!

I brought home:
1 set of reading papers to mark (done!)
1 set of Maths revision books to mark
2 sets of extended writing books to mark
homework from the last week of term (about 120 pieces)

Have to re-organise and plan for revision groups for next term (Writing, Reading and Maths). Also trying to organise planning, resources, trips and courses for whole-school subject focus week next term,...
Got residential to sort out and prepare parent information evenings (one for residential and one for stupid tests).
Need to do the SoW for my PPA cover.

Oh...and normal weekly planning...but that doesn't take me long.

What is assertive mentoring?

TheSolitary - actually, one of the supplies we've had in is an absolute diamond & has marked their books - but she hasn't levelled them (not being a subject specialist) so I'll have to trug through them in order to have some notion what to put on their reports for attainment & progress.

Can't say much about effort or behaviour, given I haven't taught them since October...

none! none! none! none! have resigned and left teaching, I am FREEEEEEEEE!!!!! I now have time to sleep 6 hours EVERY NIGHT! ( and more if I choose)

None.

(Grown up) DC is doing school-based teacher training and has brought home 30 books, planning to do, trip to book, an essay to write and portfolio to begin. First holiday where she hasn't said she will need to work every day.
She is worrying about the fact she didn't have time to mark their homework books and they've now gone home for half term unmarked... Luckily (well in this instance) parents are fairly disengaged and don't comment/complain but she feels awful.

Assertive mentoring is a way of teaching to plug gaps and basically involves a lot of assessment, planning and teaching! A lot of schools are using it now in maths and literacy. You assess every half term and then teach to fill gaps, a lesson plan will end up vastly differentiated and probably teaching to many objectives at once. You also use interventions in a very focused way. You end up only planning the first part of the week and then change the plan as you go for the rest of the week to change with the perceived need and gaps. So you could end up with a week on say, shape and space, and have a lesson with 6 different objectives. Teacher input and the way you teach has to change quite a bit, I think. We've just gone over to it.

The children are very involved in their own progression. I am a little anxious about the change in the way I will have to lead my lessons, but I can see that it will have a positive impact. Our whole school cohort is undergoing a change to it, and we've seen some fantastic results in other schools.

phleba, sounds like a frigging nightmare, where the workload is piled on even further, and the scope for blaming the teacher for anything and everything is increased manyfold.

There are a LOT more boxes to tick now! I would upload you all the planning forms but it's all copyrighted.

On the plus side, all the intervention stuff is sorted out for you, so the TA sessions to catch up are already done.

On the negative side, I have to learn a whole new way to teach and plan in a week! I know I am used to differentiating for levels 2 to 5 in my current class anyway, but I usually deliver the input as a whole. I have literally NO IDEA how I will plan for so many new objectives in one lesson (6 for my first lesson back.....)

For those of you who have left teaching, what are you doing now?? Feeling trapped financially and can't see a way out

None! I finished at Christmas after twenty four years. I've just started doing supply. So far, so good!