Isobel

[Dr. Ann Olivarius @AnnOlivarius]

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[Isobel @Isi_Cleaver]

@SecretBusMgr @RogersHistory There are children leaving primary school unable to read. Teeth brushing is something parents can do. Teaching reading is a skill most parents can't do. Teachers are highly skilled and trained. Why would we waste money on this

[Isobel @Isi_Cleaver]

@SecretBusMgr @RogersHistory There're appx 30 children in a class. A classroom has 1 sink plus maybe 4 in the toilets shared with another class of 30. So 6 sinks for 60 children. If all behave perfectly, they'll take 3 minutes to brush their teeth. That's 30 minutes at a push. More like 45-60.

[Isobel @Isi_Cleaver]

@missI_MFL This was the nail in the coffin. The day I decided I'd had enough was the day I'd had to get a passing colleague to stand in my classroom so that I could run to the toilet as I'd had a major leak that I'd been praying would stop for the last 30 mins. Then HT told me off for it.

[Isobel @Isi_Cleaver]

@lovessinging1 @Strickomaster Ditto. Left last April. I was also drowning and had to jump ship to save my self. Primary is full of layered and complex issues.

[Tom Rogers @RogersHistory]

Only HALF of the required number of trainee secondary teachers in England have been recruited for 23/24.

But we still have OFSTED operating in the same way, we still have UK teachers getting less PPA than global counterparts, we still have teachers and schools getting measured by student exam scores, we still don’t have dynamic and flexi ways of working embedded into the profession. Workload is still ridiculously high for far too many. It’s simply not worth it in the post pandemic context.

Govt doesn’t want to make the radical changes required. The status quo is much easier.

[Isobel @Isi_Cleaver]

@petergates3 @meteachmaths @GillianKeegan Why?

[Isobel @Isi_Cleaver]

@bindelj The main picture shows a child without any clothes on their bottom half. Could you replace it?

[Isobel @Isi_Cleaver]

@PrimaryCoHead For me it was the regular absences, the ones that actually affect education. Not the absences that last 5 -10 days when the child is visiting relatives abroad or on an amazing holiday. Other than that it's the unrelenting pressure and measuring that kept me awake.

[Isobel @Isi_Cleaver]

@SaysMiss I wouldn't go back if only one or these things was improved

[Isobel @Isi_Cleaver]

@SaysMiss I've just recently left and my reasons for leaving are multifaceted and complex. I stayed for over a decade, when there were just one or 2 things making the job hard to do but when those things piled up, it was time to go.

[Isobel @Isi_Cleaver]

@SaysMiss Subjective lesson obs, based on personal teaching style of the observer, really badly constructed feedback, feedback isn't developmental, provides an inaccurate snapshot

[Isobel @Isi_Cleaver]

@SaysMiss Behaviour - entitled children, rude parents, unsupportive SLT, no understanding of root cause, funding cuts so no pastoral staff, managing behaviour cutting into lesson time, one child having a bad day can ruin a lesson, tas often not in the room to support

[Isobel @Isi_Cleaver]

@SaysMiss PPA far too short for the amount of work to do and then being used to manage behaviour or have a meeting

[Isobel @Isi_Cleaver]

@SaysMiss ...had been given to support said child to achieve targets, tas used to teach small groups so teachers doing all the resources and displays alone, working from 8-5 and still never being finished, planning which days I'll be in school during every holiday, never being done

[Isobel @Isi_Cleaver]

@SaysMiss Workload - marking, curriculum too full with no space for wiggle room to go off topic if a child has a great story about there great grandad fighting in ww2 or for show and tell, or to play hangman, constant testing and collating of data, reviewing sen plans when no money...

[Isobel @Isi_Cleaver]

@SaysMiss Toxic SLT - cliques, patronising, unsupportive, bad behaviour policies, impossible expectations, no value for personal life or well being, attitude of 'just do it', inexperienced as teachers, acknowledging the workload but doing nothing about it, trends driven

[Isobel @Isi_Cleaver]

@LibertarianMaya At the last school I worked in the head said that a local school had been asked by Ofsted 'what are you doing to support transgender children?' I bet this school head heard something similar.

[Isobel @Isi_Cleaver]

@bindelj San Marco - Tottenham's best kept secret