Tracy 🇬🇧🇿🇼🇸🇦🇳🇬🇬🇧

maths teacher+proud mum of 3 amazing children. Happy to be back in UK 🇬🇧

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@BBCNews I'm sure many of us without young children would be equally happy for parents not to be charged so their children can sit with them

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@amymayforrester @adamboxer1 Also don't know the tone in which the question was asked... was he trying to 'catch her out' or getting her attention cos she was staring out the window? Maybe he had another reason for asking Sophie...we have no idea what happened in the previous lesson

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@BoltonWriter @secretHT1 🤣🤣🤣I've done exactly this..
Stop/started the timer a few times during one lesson, only to find it was still less than a minute... until I forgot to stop the timer😂

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@ShakinthatChalk And summer holidays will be *even more* expensive!

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@hollieteaches I've also realised over the years that during term time I get enough social interaction just from the school day, so unless I make a concerted effort, I can find I don't have the friends/activities to keep me going during the holidays

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@hollieteaches I've been in education for over 30yrs and totally relate. When I was younger, I missed the structure of the school term, and so I did what others have suggested... made a 'timetable' with the proviso that I'd be kind to myself and be OK with not doing everything

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@trenoodle @Strickomaster I lived in Zim for many years and we had approx 1 month at Xmas, 1 month at Easter and 1 month for summer...I definitely preferred that pattern, but I'm guessing that's not what yours is����

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@DeputyGrocott After our final INSET on Monday, I'm thinking of sending a scheduled email to my future self to tell me where I've put it 🤣

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@missgeog92 Yep! And it doesn't make any difference how much work I do on a Sunday, it's never enough

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@frankkilopezzz @Alienwife99 @llewelyn20 ..then, when they come home to visit and the house looks like a tornado has hit it within 5 minutes of them arriving, you have to remind yourself of how much you've missed them! 🤣🤣

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@frankkilopezzz @Alienwife99 @llewelyn20 I thought I wouldn't miss the empty nest, I had a busy job, friends etc etc. It surprised me how much it affected me. For me it was a quiet sadness that filled me every time I was home... you just have to lean into it and know that it will get easier....

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@m4thsdotcom That's great thanks!

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@DeputyGrocott South African spiced sausage... tastes/smells of home 🥰

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@rationalpatsfan @tronnniel @kirawontmiss I came here hoping someone had asked this 🤣

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@kateowbridge In Zim, the mobile blood bank used to visit schools once a term. Staff and older pupils were all encouraged to donate on the day. Schools would enjoy promoting how many units of blood their community had donated...it was a good way of encouraging sixth formers to start donating

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@RachaelGray_psy Toast, butter, marmite...then a layer of marmalade! 🥰

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@Jo1986swfc1 Here in Nigeria, the minimum statutory entitlement is 6 days 😱