A couple of years ago in my first teaching role since qualifying I worked at a school I thought was lovely. Nice staff and lovely class. I took some time off to have a baby and looking at going back to work, the same school is hiring again. But now I think about it I wonder if the planning requirements were normal or not great? Since this was my only job so far I'm not sure
This guidance was all given to me in drips and drabs by the other teacher in my year group, nothing from SLT:
Maths - Make own lessons using white rose but not allowed to use white rose directly, must adapt
English - Vague 'Talk for Learning' approaching which I haven't been trained on. All lessons made from scratch ourselves.
Humanities & science - Make from scratch using twinkl or just use twinkl directly (I hate this as find them so boring)
PSHE - Subjct lead has a term overview doc which has a bullet point of about 5 words describing the general topic to be covered each lesson. I then make lesson from scratch.
Ostensibly the other user group teacher and I shared planning but her maths and english planning was so brief I couldn't call it a lesson, she's been there 10 years and kind of winged things so I couldn't work from her 'plans', and other subjects she was 'planning' she often just didn't do, said to use a twinkl lesson, or came in right before the lesson saying 'ok let's do this'
I felt like all I did was plan every lesson from scratch! Is this just what it's like in primary, or was this not good? Wondering whether to apply to same school again