Kate (Eng Teacher)

Trying to balance the personal and professional and wanted a new Twitter account to do this. Tweets will be about both. Former Subject Lead in English.

[Kate (Eng Teacher) @EngTeacherOnly]

@GCSE_Macbeth Boy Everywhere, When the World Was Ours, My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece, Animal Farm Heroes The Woman In Black + Shakespeare

[Kate (Eng Teacher) @EngTeacherOnly]

@HeroicMrT Agreed! Good luck with it.

[Kate (Eng Teacher) @EngTeacherOnly]

@HeroicMrT Similar! And feeling resentful that I've lost another wknd

[Kate (Eng Teacher) @EngTeacherOnly]

@Miss_G_English Ugh! Hope it goes well!

[Kate (Eng Teacher) @EngTeacherOnly]

This resonated. I had a lovely Saturday and then the entirety of yesterday was spent working. Another day away from my family. The cost really is too much.

[Heidi Drake 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧 @mrs_denglish]

Saturday was an example of what weekends should be. A lovely time spent with family doing something we’d planned for ages for son’s birthday (and spending too much on food because that’s how attractions work). Today started similarly with volunteering at junior ParkRun but then..

[Kate (Eng Teacher) @EngTeacherOnly]

@mrs_denglish Betty blew my mind, but it is harrowing. It's stayed with me though.

[Kate (Eng Teacher) @EngTeacherOnly]

@TeacherBusy Noooooooo! No comment

[Kate (Eng Teacher) @EngTeacherOnly]

100% this. I see lots of colleagues suffering to a point of illness. It's not fair. Need I go on.

[Dave McPartlin @dave_mcpartlin]

Working in a school feels much like running on a treadmill that never slows down - and it gets harder by the day.

Every cut and the speed increases.

Every new demand and the incline rises - again and again.

Exhaustion builds and, with no clear end in sight, confusion and concern grow.

Colleagues keep running because it’s a vocation and because they care - it’s what they do.

But patience, hard work & goodwill can only keep them going for so long - people can't keep running when they are empty.

We need to slow things down, lower the incline & support the runners before the whole machine breaks - or they do.

[Kate (Eng Teacher) @EngTeacherOnly]

Plucked up the courage to weigh myself. A summer half stone has been gained. It's going to be an uncomfortable few weeks in my work trousers. 🙈

[Kate (Eng Teacher) @EngTeacherOnly]

This is the first summer where I haven't done any work - prep or otherwise - before school starts again on Monday. I've needed this break but the niggle at the back of my brain suggests I should have opened my laptop at least once. 🥴

[Kate (Eng Teacher) @EngTeacherOnly]

@Gwenelope Have experienced this with both Mum and Dad. Did a lot of reading to help me understand, but the hospice staff and care home staff respectively were excellent. No question was stupid. And in the end, both were very peaceful processes.

[Kate (Eng Teacher) @EngTeacherOnly]

@Miss_Maitland I keep thinking about it but it's the 'what do I do' question that I can't figure out, plus paying the mortgage. This year I give it more considered thought and so the maths. I've loved following your journey.

[Kate (Eng Teacher) @EngTeacherOnly]

Teaching is not a healthy job for me. As soon as 1st Sept arrives, I will not have time to eat a proper breakfast or lunch, I will not have time to drink enough, I won't be able to go to the toilet when my body wants to, I will not get enough sleep & I won't work healthy hours.

[Kate (Eng Teacher) @EngTeacherOnly]

@Shabnamagram I feel your pain. I have a run of 16 lessons without a free. With meeting night right in the middle of it.

[Kate (Eng Teacher) @EngTeacherOnly]

My spelling error shows how tired I am! 🙈

[Kate (Eng Teacher) @EngTeacherOnly]

Just putting it out there - 4 weeks into summer and I'm still tired. Normally I've regained some energy by now just because I cam sleep longer, but this year - nothing.

[Kate (Eng Teacher) @EngTeacherOnly]

@youngshakesoc Glad it's not just me! 😆

[Kate (Eng Teacher) @EngTeacherOnly]

3.5 weeks left of the hols and suddenly I feel like I can't fit everything in! How do I normally fit work in?

[Kate (Eng Teacher) @EngTeacherOnly]

2 weeks into summer: had a wknd away, sold our 2 cars, got remortgaging underway, spent 3 days so far clearing my parents' house, had long overdue medical appointments and end-of-term tiredness is still there. Not relaxed yet!