You know you work in a rural school when...

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...the year 11s drive to school on the last day in their tractors. 😂

It's weird that even though we are almost as far away from Cornwall as possible in England they still take the piss out of each other by going "Oo arrr" They even play it at prom.

When the receptionist asks what colour are the sheep marked with so that she can ring the correct farmer to retrieve them!

I was reminiscing with one of my Y11s today about the time I spotted him with a brace of pheasants on his way home from a shoot

Being 2 hours late to school because of “loose bull in road”. The only road that lead to the school!

you know you are in a rural school because no one thinks that any parent at all should have someone that can be at school within 10 minutes of a phone call because most of them live an hour away

When you have to release your TA to cut a lamb from the goal best!

also they don't have daft rules that you can't wear wellies or boots in bad weather

German and Citizenship still to go

oh and in Primary if you read them Peter Rabbit stories they all side with Mr McGregor on the basis " don't you know what rabbits do to crops?"

(Primary) when the kids

Posted too soon - when the kids don’t even bother getting excited that the sheep have got into the playground again.

Have you lot read Gervaise Phinn? His first 3 books were really good but sadly he 'let himself down' with the last couple.

When I was 14 and at local all girls grammar school ( NI education) my dad collected me from school in the antiquated Davy Brown ( that’s still going and must be nearly 50!!’)

It wasn’t cool and I stomped past him and pretended I didn’t know him.

I pick my daughter up from school sometimes on a pony. Son is sad his school is further away now and I can’t get there safely on horseback.

One of our local farms is run by ‘the Germans.’ You would certainly not have them in the daft group! It is possible to be able to drive a tractor AND be clever.

When you can get to school on the motorway from a big city 60 miles away during snow but the students cannot get down from the moors because their lanes are impassable. When there are. a large amount of absentees coinciding with harvest. When teaching Food Tech sourcing eggs for free is never a problem and sea bass are given as thank you presents.

It is possible to be able to drive a tractor AND be clever.

I don't dispute that. I know some exceptionally clever farmers, but not many of them placed a great deal of importance on getting their German or graphics GCSEs though. At best most of them made sure they got their English and Maths if they wanted to do a few years at Agricultural College.

Things are perhaps changing, the increase in 'red tape' and the loss of 'grandfather rights' in regards to things like spraying, sheep dipping and trailer tests probably means that the younger generations are being encouraged to go on to further education at college where they can pick up these qualifications as part of their course.

When the kids say they won't get nits because they have been frontlined.

Not even rural but I've come across that one before as a teacher!

You have to clear the sheep poo off the field before Sports Day. And someone brings in BBQ squirrel in their lunch box.

My son drives a tractor by the way, and did very well at grammar school.

Love these

When Show and Tell has to be vetted to make sure it’s suitable.
When weekly news makes you think ‘WTF?No, that can’t be...’ and the parent confirms it.

Oh yes, vividly remember the Y1 child with her pics of bonking pigs she wanted to show and tell, along with her explanation

When 60% are absent due to the local traditional fair day. Why this is not made a teacher training day I will never know
(Caveat not an employee but my experience of being a pupil at a semi rural secondary)

Not these days, but in September chunks of kids would be off "beating".

milking cows is on the curriculum.....

all the children bolt at 2.30 in summer, because there is too much to do on the farms, we couldn't stop them, we ended up moving the school day forward an hour to accommodate them