Managing behaviour in challenging school on supply

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I am really struggling to manage behaviour in a class that I am covering. Children are rude, they throw things (tables, chairs), kick things if reprimanded, shout over me, walk around the classroom, walk out of school and fight.

I am really struggling to get on top of the behaviour in order to try and make the lesson more engaging to get them with me. I spend most of my time feeling like I am having a go and issuing consequences.

Any suggestions for how I can make tomorrow a better day for me and them? They are year 3!

What is the school behaviour policy, are you following the sequence exactly? Did you ask for support from SLT when they first kicked off? If you've only got a few days to go, it's going to be tough to change things, they are demob happy. What's discipline like in the rest of the school?
If you are supply, you can choose not to return.

Yes, following behaviour policy, children are refusing sanctions. I've had SLT in. It is just exhausting- a very complex school. I just don't want it like that for the rest of the class!

The upside of the pathetic wages we are paid as supply is the freedom to say 'No thank you' and move on. If the stress and distress increase and the management have no solutions...move on.
Or try to enthuse, engage and offer them something to distract and delight them for the last week.

I've only recently finished my pgce so inexperienced! I feel the biggest issue is pace and getting them engaged, but it is hard when I have such outrageous behaviour to manage!

Make them see their poor behaviour leads to crap lessons. Get some textbooks. Have them work from them in silence for 20-30 mins. Then you'll feel in control and can move them onto more interesting things. Lessons don't have to be all singing and dancing to reward terrible behaviour.

Calm, orderly, silent work.
Get the room in rows.
Make them line up and enter quietly and put the date and title.
Any fuss, remove time from break/lunch and have SLT in with you to back you up.

Don't buy into the crap of 'if you plan an all singing engaging lesson then you'll solve behaviour'. It's not on you to entertain them and their engagement with work isn't a negotiation. It's a basic expectation. When they behave they can earn more variety.

And if SLT don't support you then that's the explanation for their behaviour. If so, leave.

Great, in some ways you are confirming that what I have been doing is right. It just feels harsh and ineffective when I'm still battling.
I will speak to SLT to agree a plan for the day, including intervention where needed.
In fairness, I'm not the first and there is a long standing bigger issue. But it is frustrating to have days like this.