The Sixtieth Republic - One half term to go - just need to survive Sports Day and Activities Week!

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Year 9 in an upper school are often ridiculously annoying. I like year 11 and 13.

I'm being good, Jan! I missed what that deleted post said though, was it someone being charming?

Is there any school where current Y7 aren't feral? It seems like a real issue.

I've just been to get DS from uni. It's only 1h 45 drive but I am exhausted. Might need to concede I'm not terribly tip top . Torrents of terrifying rain on the way home at one point too.

I think deleted post was pro noble.

Pro me or anti the other?

Would be odd to delete a post that says I'm ace. I don't think that's against the talk guidelines.

Our year 7 isn't feral. Normal numbers of slightly cheeky ones but otherwise gorgeous. Year 8, on the other hand .

Well, yes anti t'other.

Maybe MNHQ will inset a special paragraph in the Guidelines about what to do if you find yourself in the vicinity of @noblegiraffe

Like 'your majesty' on first meeting, then 'ma'am' thereafter, sort of thing, Jan?

I think you just might be MN Royalty, Noble!

Oh no. I have been very unprofessional and messaged my mentor having a bit of a breakdown.

Feel bloody awful now.

Why do you feel awful?

I always thought MN Royalty was 'been here ages, prolific poster, bit of a dick', Harriet

.....oh.

Name that's what the mentor is there for, to support you?

I can remember the post but couldn't work out who it was talking about.

@CallmeHendricks

I'm primary but you wouldn't think it to meet me. I reckon id fit in much better at secondary. I never venture lower than Yr 4 and also look at reception teachers with awe. They're so bloody cheerful!!!

Callmehendricks, me too! Though for historical reasons, reception teachers inhabit a whole different building elsewhere so I seldom have to worry about how morose I am in comparison.....

In other news, I think I have crafted a seating plan that Every Single Child will hate. There may be tears....

This place needs a block button for people like that - the ones who don't read or are in no position to have their mind changed. Ever.

My seating plan involves all the kids who need support on the front row, so I can whiz up and down on my wheelie chair like a motorised whack a mole.

Would you like to borrow my special whacking stick? It was once a bodge job on a fan but now it lives by my desk so I can waft it about like Macbeth's dagger.

Deleted post didn’t have a name it referred to but an icon of a spider and ‘look who crawled out of the woodwork’. Genuinely wasn’t sure who it was for!

"My seating plan involves all the kids who need support on the front row, so I can whiz up and down on my wheelie chair like a motorised whack a mole."

Me too! I was awarded a wheelie chair to scuttle about on a few years ago when I had a broken leg, and no way in hell am I giving it up!

I'd like a wheelie chair!! I haven't got one, and no likelihood of me ever getting one. Unless I defect to computing full time, but I don't think I'd like that.

All my seating plans have the weakest kids on the front row though, with the very weakest being in the very middle of the front row so I barely have to move at all to get to them.

Oh that was the deleted post, thought I’d missed it. No I wasn’t sure whose ‘side’ they were on. The spider was a bit yuk.

Weird post and even weirder that anyone reported it for deletion and it was deleted.

Awful because I should be able to do everything no trouble now. And I have an outline for the next 2 weeks, but not fully written up slides resources etc. And i bothered her on a Sunday 😭

I've missed the other thread as I don't venture out of here much.

I should be able to do everything no trouble now.

I can't do everything no trouble NOW. I've had to label one of my lesson notebooks for Wednesday with 'NOT FINISHED' so no one uses it, because it needs me to ask some questions of the English lead.