End of the week..!
It has been one hell of a week too!
I was all over the place this week.
For instance Wednesday I was told that I cannot continue to teach at my current school unless I pass my maths skills tests.
So I found out and arranged to take it today (well I kinda had to because there was no other day I can in this area!) So I basically had less than 24 hours to get good at maths... I took it this morning and failed it...
I feel like I've let everyone who's ever had faith in me, down - BIG TIME!
As for the rest, here's how poo things have been this week:
1) the head of expressive arts in my school has turned around and decided to scrap all my Y11 pupils work of 2 years and blamed me for the crapness of it all - she even made me write an apology to them on the white board.
2) i've found out that a Y10 lad in my form has been cutting himself and has a problem with stress... and scars - his arms are a real mess... his parents are talking about skin grafts
3) I broke up a fight between two Y7 boys and it turns out that the aggressor was the victim - he has been bullied for weeks now by the kid he beat up (when I came in to the room he was repeatedly smashing the kids head into the edge of a table). It's a case of enough is enough - the worm that turned! I separated them, but it's a case of - hey kids, good for you, but I couldn't allow myself to say that, or be caught in a situation.
4) there's bad bloody between my family and me (again) at the moment!
5) I really don't know where I stand at work because sooo many people have got the wrong impression of me (they all think that I'm this full-of-it Londoner with ideas waaaay above his station) I dunno, there's times when I dread going in to school - no-one said half the battles are going to be with your colleagues, let alone the kids!
Home this weekend - time for Burnout3 and plenty of other computer games!
Time to wind down Simon...
Excelsior!
It has been one hell of a week too!
I was all over the place this week.
For instance Wednesday I was told that I cannot continue to teach at my current school unless I pass my maths skills tests.
So I found out and arranged to take it today (well I kinda had to because there was no other day I can in this area!) So I basically had less than 24 hours to get good at maths... I took it this morning and failed it...
I feel like I've let everyone who's ever had faith in me, down - BIG TIME!
As for the rest, here's how poo things have been this week:
1) the head of expressive arts in my school has turned around and decided to scrap all my Y11 pupils work of 2 years and blamed me for the crapness of it all - she even made me write an apology to them on the white board.
2) i've found out that a Y10 lad in my form has been cutting himself and has a problem with stress... and scars - his arms are a real mess... his parents are talking about skin grafts
3) I broke up a fight between two Y7 boys and it turns out that the aggressor was the victim - he has been bullied for weeks now by the kid he beat up (when I came in to the room he was repeatedly smashing the kids head into the edge of a table). It's a case of enough is enough - the worm that turned! I separated them, but it's a case of - hey kids, good for you, but I couldn't allow myself to say that, or be caught in a situation.
4) there's bad bloody between my family and me (again) at the moment!
5) I really don't know where I stand at work because sooo many people have got the wrong impression of me (they all think that I'm this full-of-it Londoner with ideas waaaay above his station) I dunno, there's times when I dread going in to school - no-one said half the battles are going to be with your colleagues, let alone the kids!
Home this weekend - time for Burnout3 and plenty of other computer games!
Time to wind down Simon...
Excelsior!
you nagged at me ages ago to pass that thing!!! tut tut tut
will be back to normal grinny self soon