elp please.
I just started a new job 3 weeks ago at a primary school. I been a teacher for 7 years. Already I cannot cope with the demands this school is putting on me and my time. I am crying every day, i cannot function, i feel sick, i am not eating or sleeping properly. I have asked questions and for help with their prescriptive planning programmes but ostensibly this school is too focussed on paperwork and software rather than teaching and I have no support in using any of the software, systems or planning programmes that they use. I have been misled as at the interview I asked the right questions in that i didn;t want to be at a school with an elaborate 3 colour marking system, and that work-life balance was very important to me..it is a new head but he was at the interview and knew all the changes he was going to implement - elaborate marking/planning inspections/planning already done (sold to me as such) but then we are told to tweak them and put them into a folder (tweak is an understatement as they were written an designed for a cohort in a leafy suburb etc add these to an over reliance of logging all behavioural incidents in the day, on a system i don;t really know how to use with a class that is so behaviourally disruptive (at least 15 incidents per lesson) it pushed the last teacher to leave as she couldn;t cope. had they given me honest answers i would have left the job for someone else.I have a doctors appoitnment for next week as i cannot go on. I am exhausted and can;t focus. I am crying as i wake up. fighting back tears in the classroom and yet more and more things are being added. Can you please let me know what conversations I need to have with the school as It is likely I will be signed off sick.