You can tell kids are back to school, when the coughing and snuffling begins…
Especially those younger ones, picking up all sorts of bugs new to them, and kindly spreading them all to their classmates, and very often, to their teachers too!
One of my team are down already, with some sort of virus… and I fear my weekend will also be tainted with something too… I went to sleep with a lovely hacking cough, and have woken up with achey body too. How wonderful!
The aches, I am not sure if they are related to exhaustion, but on top of that, my knee is hurting too! About 18 months ago, thanks to my lovely Sonu Singh, I twisted it quite badly while exercising, and once in a while it plays up… obviously all the getting up and down with my lovelies is not helping.
So my weekend, which I thought would be a relaxing catch up on sleep one, will also need to include express getting better too!
This is the hard thing about teaching. You feel you can’t be ill, and even if you are, you soldier on. Yes there are supply teachers around – some good, and some not so – and if need be, you have to take time off, but for the most part, your average teacher will not take a day off, they will soldier on, conscious that there is so much to do. One day off means a whole chunk of learning and observation you missed. There is the worry of no guarantee of what the supply teacher will be like, and whether your planned work will be executed correctly, or not.
See, we hate to be ill, really, it’s so detrimental to our job, and to your children’s learning.
The flip side is that you end up working yourself even sicker, and then when those mythical holidays that all teachers get, arrive, you spend half of them getting better, and the other half planning for whatever is next on your plans!
So if your child’s teacher is ever ill, and not there, know it must be something pretty bad, and if they are unwell, give them some extra love, they are only dragging themselves in for your children!
Right, I am off to finally relax, after cleaning the house from top to bottom, feeding the kids, and catching up on my notifications!
Tomorrow morning I have some drop offs and pick ups for the kids, and some homework to help them with, then I can finally be a little unwell!
Enjoy your weekend all!
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