The Fifty-fourth Republic - Easter holidays anyone?

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Tis long!

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I'm done. Both of my key Bobs were off today, so we had a nice day. No arguing, no one got hurt, no one shouted at anyone.

Just a small piece of work to be done tomorrow on inset - could fight through it tonight, but it'll take me half an hour tomorrow if I get to it refreshed rather than knackered.

I think it's been one of the most ridiculous few weeks in terms of workload and behaviour I've ever had. Complete brain fuck - being pulled in so many different directions, it's emotionally exhausting.

Got about 6 hours of work to do I reckon, between now and 19th April. Not going to go into school. Would like to spend some nice time with my child.

I'm done too.

Inset tomorrow. I should finish marking some assessments but I'm practically a potato with limbs right now. No cogent thoughts appear to be forming on my head.

So it's shower, pyjamas and probably be a bowl of cereal and a hot cross bun for dinner because I just can't be bothered with anything else.

Well done Rule! Let us pour you a well deserved drink of your choice and you put your feet up.

Thanks for link Piggy.

And you too Guy.

Inset tomorrow. I should finish marking some assessments but I'm practically a potato with limbs right now. No cogent thoughts appear to be forming on my head

I'm just about shaking that feeling off now after breaking up nearly a week ago.

Bowl of cereal and a hot cross bun sounds like a great dinner guy

Glad you’ve got an inset tomorrow.

Well done anyone who finishes today, you made it!

One day more here, so much to do tonight to ensure a (mostly) work free holiday.

One more day here. I had a successful interview today. Mixed emotions, the school I'm going to is on the up, it will stop me becoming complacent and they seem very on it. Must remind myself this is a good thing.

Also will also mean no-one else from my department needs to be made redundant.

I should mark tests and do a feedback lesson for my year 7s tomorrow, but I think I'm going to sack it off and let them have a fun lesson for the last day instead. Must not fall down the slippery slope of not giving them my best though.

I'm gutted I won't see my year 10s through next year.

Congratulations on your successful interview @Frlrlrubert

I am truly done! Finished today. This term has been by far the hardest I have ever worked!! Got some stuff I need to do over Easter but I am also going to be strict with myself to make sure I don't do too much! Looking forward to spending some quality time with DH and DS and doing some home stuff too. Plus having a chance to relax a bit before the onslaught of next half term!

Hope tomorrow goes ok for those in work! Nearly there!

One of us successful in an interview at last! Hooray! You did it for the team frlrlr!

Well yes it had crossed my mind re single parents honey.
Congrats @Frlrlrubert!
Thanks for the link @Piggywaspushed

Whoop for you @Frlrlrubert :)

Oh my goodness I see what you mean about the race report being political piggy!!! Haven’t read the education specific parts yet, not sure I can bear to.

And “family structure is completely about single parents honey. Using that awful type of right wing American research about how kids without dads end up as drug dealers etc etc. Especially black ones. (Is there really no UK research -that fits their agenda?-)

Is the rate of single parent families really as high as 60+% amongst Afro Caribbeans?)

The concluding sentence gives a lovely flavour of the whole thing:

The year 2022 promises to be a special one: a new energy as we are fully released from COVID captivity, The Queen’s 70th Jubilee and the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. And we hope it will be infused with the spirit of British optimism, fairness and national purpose that was captured by that 2012 Olympic opening ceremony, and has animated this report.

Thank you everyone. It was a bit of a weird one.

I'd made a glaring silly error in my PowerPoint for the lesson (I adapted something from TES and didn't spot the mistake, it's literally the first time I've ever used anything from there, and I only did it because I was ill all weekend and only had an evening to prep the lesson).

I think the observers (science lead/second) were a bit and I've been offered extra mentoring to make sure I'm up to scratch.

Good thing really, they're right I've not been pushed where I am, no one had observed me teach for probably 15 months.

Anyway, when the science lead phoned to offer me the job she didn't actually sound that pleased. I'm sure it'll be fine though, I'll show her I don't normally make crappy power-points the night before a lesson!

I seem to have charmed the head (this is so not me) in the interview section, and it feels like he's made the final decision.

I think it must be because I wasn't actually fussed either way so I was more natural? I was up against three NQTs (of varying ages), so I feel a bit like I had an unfair advantage. They were all in best business dress and I just turned up in my normal comfy teacher spotty dress winging it with my shitty TES PowerPoint.

I probably need to stop overthinking it.

French schools to close for 3 weeks.

They were all in best business dress and I just turned up in my normal comfy teacher spotty dress winging it with my shitty TES PowerPoint Well real teaching doesn't hinge on having weeks to prepare and perfect circumstances and time to iron clothes every day - we are quite often winging it and doing our best against the clock and exhaustion so maybe you seemed more 'authentic'.

Jan I assumed it would be that - they always ignore the fact that if the mother's income is above 40k OR she is degree educated all of those poor outcomes disappear. It is education and/or income that are the deciding factors, not marriage.

That's two interview successes actually - name got hers too.

I'm rather hoping my something better just around the corner hope comes true and I'll be sincerely saying thank fuck I didn't take on that avalanche of extra work for less than 3k a year.

Do we think we had an early third wave after Boris' Xmas shambles? Or is it coming? Or will we be ok because of our vaccine rates?

@Frlrlrubert Well done!! I think your realness will have shone through. I hope you're feeling positive about the move.

France is an odd one, I thought they were doing OK. (disclaimer I have avoided the news for 4 weeks).

Thanks for the link Piggy.

Well done @Frlrlrubert! It's great to have some good news!

Parents evening #1 done - my first over Zoom. It went ok, I think. One more insanely long day to go. Who thought parents' evening on the last day of term was a good idea?!

honey also the factors which led to the lone-ness, especially abuse which then plays out via child contact/missing promised contact etc, that can often lead to poorer outcomes. When the woman leaves or tries to exclude the abusive dad from the child’s life that’s a positive step, not a negative one, how it’s often judged.

I've got one more day to go. I'm knackered!!!

Well done frl!!!! I would turn up to an interview in my normal work clothes too now. Many years ago when I last did interviews I had a special interview suit, but now they'd be lucky if I made sure I didn't have board pen stains on my top

I did have interview clothes, but they are a 10 and I'm a 14 now, I've eaten a lot of pies in the last three years (mostly but not all in the last year).

Im not sure re the waves.
I think we had one due to the school kids rates then not allowing 5-10d before mixing.
And obviously allowing singing nativities in t2 areas with parents.
Having schools open that lockdown then straight into frenzied xmas shopping.
Fr may have just been slower due to masks on such young kids. (And higher vit d levels).
It could well spark it off again here.
I am wondering about the r if 50% vaxxed.
Would that make it 1.5 from 3. So still too high to lift all restrictions.
Lots of 40yo mums at school vaxxed last week.
We must be up to at least 6/60 in that year group. Such a pity it hasnt carried on down.
However it still annoys me a little where eveyone is taking kids in shops (often unnecessarily and unmasked)

Jan and honey I agree that lone parents are seen as a bad thing, but it's the circumstances around single adult households that are more closely linked with poorer outcomes. I was a lone parent for 8 years with dd1 and having a stable single parent household was miles ahead of having her paternal "family" involved would have been. There is no way he would ever have stuck to contact times or anything, so it was far better for dd that he washed his hands of her before she was even born.