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Feeling unhappy and stressed with changes

5 replies

Pickletrayred · 06/09/2025 21:51

Nc as potentially outing!
School I have taught at for a while have just made yet more changes and I don't know if I'm being unreasonable but it feels like they are expecting too much of us.
We have just moved from 4 lesson days to 5 lesson days. We have a 5 minute transition between lessons which we have now been told we have to be on duty in corridors for (this was the time I used to set up for next lesson and sometimes run to the loo and then meet and greet!
Results last year were poor so we are likely to be under scrutiny in our lessons too. Every day we are being asked to do more and more but no time to do it- for example, as a UPS teacher, we have been told we have to mentor a year 11 student and meet fortnightly- but I only have 3 or 4 PPA a fortnight which is when I try to plan etc! We were trialled last year having an extra 10% off timetable, we were told this would continue and then after the deadline for handing in notice we were told actually we would not be getting it this year.
I'm feeling incredibly stressed and would happily not go back. Do other schools ask staff to do dutys in lesson transition? I think I just need a moan more than anything!

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FenderStrat · 06/09/2025 22:03

I am a primary school teacher, so perhaps not totally comparable.

But in my experience, this sounds pretty much like all the schools I've taught in.

Endless change, endless new initiatives, endless emails, endless new demands, endless scrutiny... and none of it actually producing positive results; in fact...

TeacherPrimaryabc · 07/09/2025 00:40

They (whoever "they" are: politicians, leaders, Headteachers) just do not understand the notion, that stressed out teachers never produce better results. They just expect more and more. So many give up and leave the profession. It's getting worse and worse and worse.

FenderStrat · 07/09/2025 06:17

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

BoleynMemories13 · 07/09/2025 11:28

SLT can't dictate how you use your PPA time. This is non-contact time.

Contact your union.

MrsHamlet · 10/09/2025 19:57

Lesson transition is directed time so you can be told what to do. But PPA is sacrosanct.

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