Too darn hot

[Piggywaspushed]

and I really can't motivate myself to spend another day sweltering in a classroom with over heated students and teachers. No end in sight.

I was so hot on Friday I nearly played sleeping lions and/ or considered just bursting into tears. Anyone even vaguely naughty pushes me to the brink. The only thankfulness I have is that I am not a man consigned to hot classrooms in trousers , shirt and tie.

Sob.

I decided to start a 'it's too hot' thread since everyone else seems to be tolerating it awaits someone telling me to get a grip as I will have six weeks holiday soon

[Showergel1]

Mornings are not too bad, the sun hits just before lunch and after that it's a sweat box. P. E. Is consisting of lying on the floor listening to a guided meditation. Officially on the wind down for the last two weeks doing extra topic and science so afternoons will now feature a large amount of mindfulness aka educational colouring in.

[seven201]

I hate it. The kids hate it. Hardly any work gets done. I've got so much work to do but am leaving at 4 instead as I'm just too grumpy to do anything. We have two fans between five classrooms and we're a practical subject with lots of moving around. Aghhhhh.

[Bumpinthenight]

We have been doing meditation after lunch for exactly this reason!

[Piggywaspushed]

I am going to pretend I have a terribly important week of observations and gatecrash all your lessons mary.

[MaryPoppinsBloomers]

Do you think we'd get away with some urgent cpd whilst slt took our classes?

[EvilTwins]

I teach 6th form. They were like overtired toddlers all last week. Two weeks to go...

[Piggywaspushed]

I am sure I have much to learn from you and need to visit next week... SLT will cover us all in I am convinced.

[cloudyweewee]

We've been told that we can't have fans in our classrooms due to health and safety. Told by SLT, who all work in offices with air con ofcourse.

[Piggywaspushed]

WTAF??

Union advice says fans should be provided for all the good they do. At least my SLT sweats along with the minions!

Do you have a union rep??

[BettyBettyBetty]

Yep I'm with you. I've felt ill all weekend from being overheated all week.

[elephantoverthehill]

I have on a number of occasions, not just this year, uttered 'If you mess with the fans, stick stuff in the fans, we won't have any fans because they will be deemed a H&S hazard.' Mentally I am adding 'fucking' as a prefix to the word 'fan'.

[tryagainsardines]

The heat is awful right now. We've just got through a week of school performances and I thought I was going to melt conducting the choir under those bloody stage lights.
On Friday as a "treat" for working so hard the head has sprung 2 weeks worth of learning walks (read observations- very formal. We've already had our quota but head can't tell the bloody difference) and a book scrutiny in the last week-why?!

[DrMadelineMaxwell]

Another classroom here with lots of windows on different aspects, so they catch the sun all day long. And safety mechanisms mean they open for 2 inches. No breeze to be had.

Some teachers have brought in their own fans. Cue a grumpy teacher who hasn't complaining loudly and publicly about the unfairness that SOME classes have more than one fan while they have none. When they haven't brought their own fan in.

It's the kids walking up to them and 'Ahhhhh'ing into them to listen to their voices change that I dislike.

PM obs seem to have been forgotten. Staff meetings have been cancelled in favour of planning for next term. A learning walk seems to have been scrapped.

Lots of things have been done now - sports day, summer fair, etc. But the y6 performance rehearsals are in full swing and that's this week's drama to endure in this heat.

[PrincessHairyMclary]

Heatwave + sweaty teenagers (and staff) + Bunsen burners on the go =

[raindropsandsunshine]

Yup, we thankfully have lots of opening windows I can't imagine how it is for those who don't. Awful.

[MsAwesomeDragon]

I moved room this year specifically because my old room was boiling in hot weather. My new room has more windows, and we are closer to the fire doors that are open constantly in this weather, but it's still seriously hot and sweaty in there. I have a fan, and when it's just me in there marking it's lovely, but as soon as you add 30 teen-agers the temperatures rise as does the stench. Some of the pupils (boys mostly but not exclusively) seem to produce the most obscene amount of sweat and odor (I'm sure I contribute to the smell too and am very conscious not to get too close to the pupils) It's vile!!!!

[OiWhoTookTheGoodNames]

It's one of those times where the staff at my kids' school who've not had their classrooms renovated yet are feeling substantially more smug than those who haven't - they still have the old windows that fully slide open rather than the new ones that only open a couple of cm at the top.

Progress?!

A friend's school has a nice new (PFIed to the eyeballs) shiny ICT suite with no opening windows (so the locals can't burgle it as easily) and it gets so hot in there they end up teaching ICT in the corridor with a pen and paper.

[brizzledrizzle]

Think of me, driving the minibus full of sweaty, grumpy, overheating teens...

Have you got any heavy duty clothes pegs?

[OiWhoTookTheGoodNames]

My thoughts are with every teacher suffering a classroom with crapply opening windows and a class of children that age where they're starting to get slightly ripe but haven't really cottoned onto the concept of deodorant yet in this weather.

Also with anyone stuck in a room with teenage girls obsessed with spraying layer upon layer of Impulse or Lynx at 5 second intervals as well at the other extreme.

[TheFallenMadonna]

I am being observed twice tomorrow. Twice.

[Piggywaspushed]

Goodness. What on earth for??!

[MsAwesomeDragon]

Why on earth would anyone think that's a good idea? That's a horrific thing to do to any teacher at any time of year, let alone the hottest time.

I'm out on a course tomorrow. I feel a bit hyper like I'm going on a fun outing :) I suspect I may be disappointed with the reality but I'm so excited.

[Vitalogy]

Are there any shaded areas outside you could do the class from there.

[leccybill]

Anyone else been told 'no fun lessons'? Business as usual to the bitter end here. Windows which open one inch. 33 in every class.
I'm fed up of it.

[Piggywaspushed]

No, partly because our kids are on constant trips/ D of E etc that it feels like remnants of classes are left which makes me feel even more like I can't be fuckingarsed.

I let an annoying boy stand outside my classroom for about 30 mins today because he was 'too hot'. I didn't miss him.

Last year the head declared he wore his tie so expected all male staff to do the same (minus PE am guessing). he has not said this this year, whilst standing in his silly crumpled Our Man In Havana suit.