FGlasper💙💙💙

Primary Teacher, now UKCP registered Child and Adolescent Psychotherapeutic Counsellor based in the North East of England. EMDR practitioner.

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Imagine the mystery couple in a holiday group contains a past pupil from decades ago. The talks, memories and connection has been simply beautiful. Relationship is what matters most in teaching. Teachers do impact lives.

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[Geoff and Margaret @RetirementTales]

Margaret has spent a day in Key Stage 1 while the class teacher finished carrying out the Phonics Screening.

Margaret says she's humoured all sorts of silly initiatives over the years but this nonsense takes the biscuit.

She blames Nick Gibb.
Or Phonick Glib, as she calls him.

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@RetirementTales Fields of Gold by Sting, please and a Diet Coke and sausage sarnie with ketchup. Thank you and have a lovely Friday.

[Dave McPartlin @dave_mcpartlin]

THE CALL

Imagine having a really important interview that you’ve prepared years for and you badly want to ace. You’ve worked as hard as you could and have committed your life to it.

Imagine every night going to bed, wondering if it’ll be the next day. But it doesn’t come that next day, the next month or even the next year. The pressure builds and you start to jump when the phone goes between 10am-12pm every day, ready to drop everything for the interview to start.

Imagine knowing that when it finally does come that there’s a good chunk of luck involved and it’ll depend on who interviews you on that day and what they happen to focus on and see.

Imagine praying for one of the good interviewers but you end up with one of the bad ones, who doesn’t listen and has their own agenda but there’s nothing you can do about it.

Imagine it leaves you in pieces and everyone know it’s not fair, but, so be it, and all that will now come your way.

Imagine knowing that that you can’t tell anyone the outcome of the interview, and you have to carry that around, on your own, for what feels like forever.

Imagine what that does to a person.

Imagine a better way.

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@missradders Disillusioned primary teacher with 31 years experience. I retrained as a psychotherapeutic counsellor with children and adolescents. Long process but worth it. Recently became tutor on a post grad diploma in this subject. Teaching is a real passion, bureaucratic bullshit is not.

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@RetirementTales Yes. A new HT with the intent to perform for Ofsted. As people we were labelled “Requires Improvement” as it was a reflection on us! Demands were literally 24/7. There was a successful hit list. The children were irrelevant. I felt the only skill I had was that I could breathe.

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@RobertESenior I agree, but hold equally culpable those leaders in school who become so blinkered by Ofsted and the grade, that they completely disregard the health and wellbeing of staff and learners.

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@PieCorbett @Ofstednews Isn’t this what teaching has become? The important bit, to do with the children, is last on the list.

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@GaryLineker Adding my support. X

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@RetirementTales Please can I have a cheese and pickle sandwich on brown, a diet coke and Romeo and Juliet by Dire Straits? Thank you

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What a great thread. I wholeheartedly agree. I believe the same reasons are driving staff away and killing recruitment.

[Naomi Fisher @naomicfisher]

What would happen if we saw school related distress as feedback on the system? As a psychologist, I meet many children who are distressed by school. Usually I’m being asked to change that. Can I make them less anxious? Can I make them attend without protest? 1/

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@RetirementTales Hooray!

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@RetirementTales Please can I have a large g&t, a lobster roll and listen to Ride a White Swan by T Rex. Thank you and have a great half term.

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I don’t think it’s ever the teaching or the students. It’s the endless bureaucratic rubbish and accountability which is killing the profession. Last week, I heard of a new Head asking a pregnant woman about to go on maternity leave if she’d thought about her Y11s! What!!!

[The Thinking School @Thinkingschool2]

In my experience, when teachers complain about their job, it isn’t the students they are complaining about.

It is all the other stuff.

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@RetirementTale5 Harry Styles Kiwi please x

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@RetirementTale5 It was on a Starry Night please.

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@DrRachelBriggs @RogersHistory This sums it up perfectly. And teachers taught and children learnt.

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This picture of our beautiful Labrador, Lexie was taken in her prime. She passed away on Monday, aged 14. She was a fabulous dog. Our hearts are broken, but full of memories. 💔 #labrador

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@SoVeryBritish Lose one is easy- mayo. Toss up between ketchup and salad cream- prob keep salad cream.