As a parent who has a son that’s starting secondary school today and memories of just how daunting that seemed to me then, I’m not as happy as I might usually be today.
Apparently he was happy enough this morning so obviously made of sterner stuff than his Dad 🙂
Oh yes, eldest starts high school in tommorow. He’s a bit nervous, but looking forward to it. There’s a very complex plan afoot for his classmates to meet on the way there.
Youngest starts School Nursery on Thursday, she can’t wait, she’s been asking to go there everyday since the last taster day in July.
Ours go back tomorrow (yr 4). We are expecting tears (as always) from one of them – she has never dealt with new terms/years well and now her very best friend (and emotional rock) has emigrated to Dubai with her family 🙁
not yet it isn’t. 2x INSET days FFS! Lazy b’stards can’t possibly have training days sometime in the previous 6weeks when the school is closed. Oh no. 👿
I was very smug riding past a queue of traffic into Milton Keynes this morning, and the kids aren’t all back until tomorrow so I’ll be even more smug in 24 hours.
Whole family starts on Thursday, the better half and I are both teachers so we’ve been on holiday since mid June, which makes going back a bit of a wrench.
Whole family starts on Thursday, the better half and I are both teachers so we’ve been on holiday since mid June, which makes going back a bit of a wrench.
Now that’s a proper summer break! Where do you work…and are there any CDT jobs?
yeah but every other profession doesn’t have the luxury of 13 weeks of holiday and funded by the public purse providing a service that virtually every family uses.
Never mind teach, just another 6 weeks till you get another hol.
yeah but every other profession doesn’t have the luxury of 13 weeks of holiday.
Irrelevant, whatever your holiday allowance, you wouldn’t expect to have to use it for training purposes. But then you also wouldn’t expect to have to do preparation and paperwork during your holidays either and I’m pretty sure you’ll struggle to find a teacher who hasn’t done that over the last 6 weeks.
yeah but every other profession doesn’t have the luxury of 13 weeks of holiday and funded by the public purse providing a service that virtually every family uses.
Nice troll, but if I had to spend the other 39 working weeks surrounded by thousands of other peoples kids, I’d need that time off to prevent me from murdering some of them!
Our school had today down as an inset day, then at some point over the last term they added tomorrow as ANOTHER inset day. And we only found out via our own Facebook friends.
FFS!
I’m still ‘working’ from home on Friday though when the kids will be out, so me and Mrs Grips are going to Five Guys for my birthday lunch. Ssh don’t tell the kids 🙂
Worth noting that irrelevant of when the inset days are there is still the same number of school days each year. So you’re not losing or gaining anything, it all adds up to the same.
Ah! I love the start of new term threads look forward to them every year. Let’s have a pop at the teachers as they want 1 day at school to prepare for the term with no kids.
Perhaps, the holiday allowance shouldn’t have to match the pupils’?
So you would, perhaps, want the teachers to come back to work a bit before the pupils in order to do their training. Maybe they could go in on the Monday after the summer holidays and then the kids could come in on the Wednesday? They could also take the odd day off during the year to do more training, again allowing the kids to take the day as holiday. Yeah, that would work I reckon.
I thought it’d be carmageddon this morning – but it wasn’t.
Only some shit audi and bmw driving on the way in today – just waiting for the properly shit driving – volvo and seat – to start tomorrow.
So you would, perhaps, want the teachers to come back to work a bit before the pupils in order to do their training. Maybe they could go in on the Monday after the summer holidays and then the kids could come in on the Wednesday? They could also take the odd day off during the year to do more training, again allowing the kids to take the day as holiday. Yeah, that would work I reckon.
Perhaps expect the teachers to attend school for 200 days per year, and the kids for 195? That might work?