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(Not Going) Back to School

21/8/2020

 
This time of year I usually return to my blog, feel guilty about having done nothing with it for yet another academic year, write a post about how things will be different, then promptly neglect it again for another twelve months. I blame motherhood entirely for this; I have spent a large proportion of the last five years either pregnant, on maternity leave, or trying to establish a new work/life balance, one that didn't allow me to stay up late on school nights blogging.

This September, however, is the first in twelve years that I won't be standing in front of my new classes, trying to learn names and mentally tweak my seating plan. I won't be establishing my new homework routines, working out who needs extra support and who requires constant challenge. I won't be painstakingly transferring data into my markbook and I won't be getting to know any of the names, faces and personalities that the data belongs to.

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Looking back, looking forward...

24/7/2015

 
It seems that we all do a bit of reflection at the end of the year. For me, my targets are a bit like New Year's resolutions - I start off well, but most things have fallen by the wayside by October half term. This year, I vowed to keep my room tidy and organise my equipment better... that didn't happen, and I must have bought about ten new boxes of pens from Tesco as pupils just wander out of the classroom with them. My first SBPC post was about just this - my What Went Wells and Even Better Ifs for this academic year.

As the staggered start to the summer holidays means that we all finish at different times (and yes, I am one of the lucky ones!), I'm reading a few great posts at the moment along just these lines. So today's post is a link to some of those.

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51 Days of Summer, the blogpost challenge and a bit of self-assessment

18/7/2015

 
As I mentioned in my last blog post,  I've had very little time lately to work on my website and write blog posts; it's a shame because I love doing both. Now that the seven-week summer holiday has arrived (I'm still not sure where that extra week has come from), and inspired by Dr Bennison's "blog post a day" personal challenge, I decided that I would join him and try and write one post each day until I return to school on 7th September.
I'm now slightly regretting signing myself up for this challenge. When I woke up this morning, I worked out that this means I need to write 51 blog posts before the start of September! Normally I have more ideas than time to write posts, but I sat here for about an hour earlier with serious writer's block. 

Eventually, I decided that, as we've just finished the school year, it's a good time for both reflection and looking forward. I read a particularly great post along these lines today from Andy Tharby (@atharby), and I'm planning to write a similar one at some point, but I can't quite decide what my "three" are. For the time being, I thought I'd stick with a self-assessment format I'm happier with...

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