Idiots of Ants

This made me laugh

*Bad language alert!*

The week of reviews!

Now, I've been teaching year 7 to write book reviews. This involves the use of quotations, writing in the 3rd person (not first - that's too easy), using a variety of sentence structures and giving your opinion. I wish it was as easy as that when I'm being reviewed!

This monday was the "English Department External Review". This meant that someone from outside came in to have a prod and a poke and see how we were doing. We're ace! (obviously) I was observed and was "good". So all's well there.

Then, on Monday lunchtime we get a phone call from our old friends OFSTED.... with less than 48 hours notice... They'll be here Wednesday.... CRIKES!

My routine as a result has been work all day. Come home at 3:30 and work until 11pm everynight. Thank fully I'd been keeping on top of my marking or I think I'd be asleep right now! I just can't help myself with planning in situations like that; it takes me hours to get a potential "outstanding" lesson plan and as I plan for this to be my last ever OFSTED, i wanted to do well. So, what does hours of work get you? No OFSTED inspector!! LMAO I've managed to escape again without being seen. I did manage to get SMT to take a couple of exercise books away which demonstrated intervention and pupil progress but other than that ? Nada.

Mummy Moo, bless her, knew I'd not been "OFSTEDed" so came and did a lesson ob for me period 4. At least not all of my lessons went un-noticed! It's hilarious that I spend all night making the pretty files for OFSTED and then shove them in the recycling at the end of the day- the trees we have wasted! lol. It was nice to have Mummy Moo back in my classroom. She's not not normally the one who observes me. INfact we worked out the last time we'd had a chat like that was when I was an NQT! (I think that was 6 years ago!)We're trying to work out why I always get good with outstanding features... I think we've almost cracked the code too ;)

All that matters in the end though is that the pupils had fab lessons in which they're making good progress. It was fun bringing the new student teacher into year11 and tricking them into thinking he was the inspector!! MOAH HA HA!

So... the result?

We are now officially "A Good school with outstanding features"!!!! YAY!
That means we are just as good as St Thomas Aquinas, better than Bournville (which doesn't seem to mention outstanding in it's opening statement) and are one grade behind "Kings Norton Girls" We 'like' totally ROCK!
I hope the community "read all about it". We're working soo hard at that place it's ace that we have something to prove that we really are as good as we think we are!! lol

John4hannah

Well, well, well. Now I know why I need to make sure that I have my mobile on, charged and ready! ;)

WOAH!


COOOLIIIOOOOO
and funny! Span has deserved this for such a long time :) :) I'm SOOO Happy she has found someone who is so "Crazy in love!" ;)


Span knew nothing about this at all! How exciting to be delivered to such an event via taxi. Unfortunatly for her OH he had to wait an hour or so up there on that board.... BRRRRR! Did you see the temperatures in London yesterday? Poor chap!

Anyhoo... make sure you check out John4hannah.com and you tell all your friends!

My favourite room

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My bedroom. And no, not for kinky reasons!! (lmao) I love snuggling in my duvet with a good book. Whether that be in the morning or late at night whilst I have lost my husband to the make-believe World of Warcraft, I can sit and read and get lost in an entirely different adventure.



Sitting up, in bed, with piles of soft, cushioney pillows behind my head is soooo relaxing; especially if you can soften the light just right. Too dark and you get a headache from straining your eyes, just right and it's atmospheric and relaxing.



If it's raining outisde, as it frequently does in the UK, then it really is the best place to be. As the rain hits the window i can snuggle up a little more and know that I am warm, safe and comfy. Sometimes if I'm really lucky my cat will join me and then I have an excuse not to move. I mean, I can't deny that purring ball of grey fluff cuddles now can I?

Crikey o'Blimey it's white fluffy madness!

I kid you not. In the last 15 mins my rd has disappeared for the 3 time this week!

It's proper snow!!!

CRAZY!!!

EVEN more snow!

I can't believe it!


My school was open today but I couldn't get there!! It started snowing at 6am and didn't stop until 11:30. The kids in my street were sledging up and down the very slippery road that I would have had to drive along... Scary.
Madly, by 2pm it had turned a bit slushy and the roads were clear.
A big thank you to all those who had to cover me today :)

I've just watched the weather forcast and they've mentioned there's more on the way! I love snow but i hate all this uncertainty. It was awful this morning when I didn't know what to do!! Even worse when i realised that I was stuck.

More snow days :)

Last time we had a snowday i was very dull and boring and spent most of the day organising my lesson plan and resources for an observation that was supposed to have happened half an hour ago! More fool me! Another bought of snow has closed the school again and i'm not wasting any time today ;) I've built a snow man and a snow cat, stomped about in it and might, later on create a snow angel ;)



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It's snowing!!

Like right now!! YAY!

Taylor Mali

In my search for inspiration today i found myself wandering around youtube. I found an American teacher who is also a poetic genius... He's ace and inspiring and I want to share him with you... he's funny too :)

What teachers Earn


Mircale Workers


Like.. You know..


The the impotance of proof reading