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EvelenHajk · 2023-04-08T20:59:37+00:00

I wake up at 6 am, have breakfast and coffee, shower. I wake up my son at 7 am and we leave for kindergarten at 7:30 am. Then I drive to school. I arrive at school at 7:45 am. I work with students and teachers until 11:30 am, then we have lunch, and sometimes there is afternoon teaching. I also have to supervise after-school activities and I arrive back home at 4:30 pm.

CheesecakeAddict · 08/04/2023 22:12

I wake up at 5am, get myself and DD ready and at 6.15am take her to wrap around care and go to work. 7.30am arrive at work, have a banana and a coffee for breakfast whilst I wait for my computer to warm up. Finish teaching at 3.10, duty till 3.20pm then 2 days a week a meeting till 4.20pm. I have year 11 revision sessions during lunch. Drive home to pick up DD from wrap around care for 5.30pm, make tea, do homework, get DD int9 bed for 7pm. Have my own tea, get a bath, then work till 10.30pm, go to bed.

Minimochi · 09/04/2023 07:09

I get up at 5.30am (I need a slow start to the day), get myself ready, have breakfast and wake DS at 7am. We leave for school at 7.30am and get there for around 8.15am. I drop DS off on the playground and go to my classroom, take the chairs down, turn the computer on, etc.
The kids come in at 8.45am. We have lessons until 3.45pm and I take anyone who hasn't been picked up by 4pm to after school club. I either pick up DS at this point and we go home or I go and do some stuff until about 5pm, if he wants to stay for a club or music lessons. We have one staff meeting every two or three weeks, which finishes at 5pm. We get home at around 5.30-6pm, have dinner and a chilled out evening at home. (Waiting for the summer, when we can just lounge by the pool and enjoy the warm evenings...)

SpringIntoChaos · 18/04/2023 21:01

I wake up at 6am, breakfast, shower and leave for work at 7.30. Arrive in school at 8am and set up my room, photocopy and trim resources for me and my parallel class teacher. Children begin to arrive for morning work at 8.30 (we allow them in 15 minutes before register to 'settle' 🤦‍♀️)

Teach all day until 3.25, doing break duties 3 x a week and one lunch duty.

Manage to mark half a set of books at lunchtime most days, after I've set up for the afternoon learning - except on my duty day! After school meeting twice a week from 3.45 until 4.45/5.00.

Usually have 3 or 4 sets of books (90-120 books) to mark...which takes around 3 hours. Try to get some done in school before we get kicked out at 6pm, but usually end up taking at least half of them home. Our whole school marking policy is that every book is marked on the day we teach the lesson...SLT check this frequently and we get seriously pulled up if we've missed any marking!

I teach Year 2...it's relevant as our school policy for Y2 and Y6 specifically, is that ALL books are marked and then ticked off against the TAF sheets 'in case we are moderated'. This doubles our already overwhelming marking workload 😔

I'm drowning.

lifeisabalance · 19/04/2023 08:30

SpringIntoChaos · 18/04/2023 21:01

I wake up at 6am, breakfast, shower and leave for work at 7.30. Arrive in school at 8am and set up my room, photocopy and trim resources for me and my parallel class teacher. Children begin to arrive for morning work at 8.30 (we allow them in 15 minutes before register to 'settle' 🤦‍♀️)

Teach all day until 3.25, doing break duties 3 x a week and one lunch duty.

Manage to mark half a set of books at lunchtime most days, after I've set up for the afternoon learning - except on my duty day! After school meeting twice a week from 3.45 until 4.45/5.00.

Usually have 3 or 4 sets of books (90-120 books) to mark...which takes around 3 hours. Try to get some done in school before we get kicked out at 6pm, but usually end up taking at least half of them home. Our whole school marking policy is that every book is marked on the day we teach the lesson...SLT check this frequently and we get seriously pulled up if we've missed any marking!

I teach Year 2...it's relevant as our school policy for Y2 and Y6 specifically, is that ALL books are marked and then ticked off against the TAF sheets 'in case we are moderated'. This doubles our already overwhelming marking workload 😔

I'm drowning.

This is horrendous.

Outrageous that you HAVE to mark all books every day.

Subjects like history/geography I aim to have marked for the following week's lesson. I do try to keep on top of maths/English (year 3) everyday otherwise it builds up.

Marking for 3 hours a day is not sustainable - no wonder you're drowning.

Mumwithbaggage · 20/04/2023 00:28

Up at 6 (ish), leave by 7,20. Teach all day - spend half my lunch hour marking. Meetings via zoom across our federation one day a week till 5. One day I rush home to tutor, today was PPA at home this afternoon. Kids are all grown up - tell me I'm mad because they all earn far more than me and work far fewer hours. Feel like an utter mug and loathe and detest the deep dives (7 this mini term even though I teach year 6 and we have SATs). Constant Deep Dives are what will make me just walk out with my handbag and a cheery wave one day.