Supply this afternoon

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I feel sick, hot and shaky. Booked to teach yr 3/4 this afternoon. So nervous, never been to school before. I want to ring agency and cancel,

If the feeling is illness then you should cancel. The agency can probably find someone else in time. If it's just nerves then go along. You'll be fine. It's a nice time of term to see a new school. Good luck.

It's nerves, it's only for an afternoon. Feel so ill, upset tummy, shaking, feel sick to my stomach, been up a lot in night going through classroom conversations in my head

Why are you so nervous? X

What's making you so nervous? Have you done supply before? x

You are doing supply for a year 3/4 class this afternoon and you have never been to a school before? Or this school?

In any case, how bad can it be? It's a short time and this age is really fun.

Do you mean never been to this school before, or it's your first job on supply?
Get through it, or you'll never manage in September. It's for less than 3 hours, you can do it!

I'm sure it will be fine. I remember doing supply in year 5/6 for the first time. I had only taught as high as yr3 in my own classss. I was really nervous AND was covering PE but it was actually pretty good fun and the time flew! You'll be great

I only did Y 5/6 on teaching practice, years ago, so was nervous when I did daily supply and found myself landed with Y1. Not only Infants but small ones! Had never so much as stepped foot in an Infants classroom since I was 6, myself! It was fine. Confirmed for me I'd never want to teach kids that age and I'd avoid jobs with younger kids ever afterwards, but I lived to tell the tale.

Oddest (and best as it turned out) supply job I ever had was when a teacher ran sobbing out of school at lunchtime and I was asked to cover the afternoon. It was a right-on trendy school where the kids called you by first name (and a private school so the kids were incredibly spoiled and entitled) but it turned out to be a permanent, part time gig, and the kids who had reduced my predecessor to a sobbing wreck, were lovely with me. You never know.

I do a lot of supply.

I detach myself really - if unsuitable or incomplete work has been left then I've got a few tricks up my sleeve, but I'm not going to lose any sleep if the kids end up doing quiet reading for a lesson.

Don't be afraid to be honest with the kids either. I'll quite often set them a quiet three minute task and tell them I need to get my head around the lesson I'm teaching...

You can only be as good as the work you are left, and at the end of the day you're a body in the room, which is all they need when it's just a day or half day cover.

Hope it went well

Thanks everyone, it went really well, I printed off a rainforest animal poem, gave a verse to each group and they had to perform it to the rest of the class, what a dad tie I am.,

That sounded like a perfect activity for them, you know what you are doing.
So why the panic, and will it happen again when you face a class after 6 or 7 weeks off?

I have no idea why yesterday was so bad, was a local school. Would love to go back and do it all again, thanks for all the "YOU CAN DO IT" messages. Supply in a school I go to regularly today, no idea what class or what I will be teaching but no nerves at all