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Find your why! Weāre nearly at the end of week three, and the warning signs are all there: itās getting darker, the leaves are turning, and summer feels like it happened about 14 years ago. Weāve officially entered that time of year at school. The one where you leave the house in the dark, get…
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Week Two Wobbles Weāre only in the second week of term and already the cracks are starting to show. Staff and students alike are trying their best not to slip back into old habitsā¦ but itās happening. The shiny new stationery is already missing a lid, planners are mysteriously ālost,ā and the energy we all…
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Are you ready? GCSE results have landed, and across the country thousands of students are celebrating, commiserating, or somewhere in between. Funnily enough, plenty of teachers are doing the same thing. Iām happy with my results this year, which makes the looming INSET day a little less stressful. You know the one: SLT pouring over…
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Who am I? And, whatās the point? Hi there! Iām Dan, a 36-year-old secondary school music teacher from the north of England. I work in a school located in a very deprived area, and Iāve been here for almost 10 years. In that time, Iāve worn a few hats: Head of Year for about 6…
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There is nothing wrong with having a break. Remember that, please! There is nothing wrong with having a break. Remember that, please! School life is full-on ā we all know that. Itās relentless pressure from an industry (and often an employer) that just wants more, more, more. Some of us are staring at a glass…
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How can we create our own systems to lighten our workload? I have been reading āThe 4 hour work weekā by Timothy Ferriss, the premise of the book is to automate a lot of what you do, eliminate distractions, say no to things that donāt interest or serve you and to start to think about…
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My nameās Dan. Iām a secondary school teacher in the North of England, and Iāve been doing this job for ten years. My wife is a teacher too, and together we have two young kids ā theyāre 6 and 4. Our eldest is autistic, but sheās in mainstream education and doing well – she has…
