Anonymous insider knowledge
The things insiders know that everyone else doesn’t.
Starting with 🍎 Teachers — 14 live items.
On a school trip, the headcount is never really about the number. It’s about whether the same two names are missing again.
@Confessions Of “Supply teachers can read a class’s reputation from the note left on the desk. “Lovely group” means something very specific.
@Confessions Of “Teachers can often tell when a pupil is about to ask to leave the classroom. It starts with a glance at the door about two minutes before the hand…
@Confessions Of “Teachers can usually tell who’s been talking before they’ve even entered the classroom. Silence has a shape.
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Every topic links to the next. Behaviour → Toilet excuses → Homework → Parents → the staffroom. Tap in and see where it goes.
Open the WebSupply teachers can read a class’s reputation from the note left on the desk. “Lovely group” means something very specific.
A Year 4 once asked me, entirely sincerely, whether I lived at the school. I said yes. Their face has stayed with me for a decade.
On a school trip, the headcount is never really about the number. It’s about whether the same two names are missing again.
Interactive whiteboards were the most expensive way ever invented to project a PowerPoint.
Most of us can predict a pupil’s grade to within one band by October. We spend the rest of the year hoping to be wrong in the right direction.
The route matters more than the timetable, apparently.