Wednesday: Taster day for year 6. I had prepared a good lesson for the pupils ready for 3 classes to run simultaneously forgetting that Publisher will not allow access to the same file by more than one person at a time i.e. creating a read only version. To test this I would have had to have logged on several times and attempted to do so which of course is not an obvious test to make. I should have remembered. Therefore as the pupils tried to log on it all went very wrong. I felt like a complete ass. Especially as I was performing in front of a member of staff I find difficult to interact on a professional basis with. I retrieved the situation by quickly copying and naming 20 versions of the doc and away we went. The 3 subsequent lessons I taught were absolutely fine. I should ave been pleased with myself for copingb in a pressured situation but instead fixated on the 5 mins at the beginning of the day. The other staff present said it was fine and to stop ripping myself up about it. That evening was the Parents' Open evening for year 6. We had a much higher turn out than last year with a steady flow of parents and children. We put copies of some of the wanted posters, which included their pictures we had taken, made during the day on the wall and the children took great delight in finding their pictures. It was a 13 hour day all told.
Thursday:
Recovery from yesterday. I'm afraid I did nothing substantial through the morning just standard support of pupils. Went home at lunch and spent the afternoon making Gannt charts so much so that I was late for the childrens' dentist appointments. Cracked Control panels though!!!! Governor meeting about appointing new headteacher was very interesting but does look to involve a lot of work.
Today:
Busy producing Interim reports for year 7 class and lesson resources for pm with TC. Spent P4 teaching y10 inc. one to one with LH and then P5 with y11. Need to discuss Lesson planning with TC. He is the TEACHER after all so should I be worried about lesson plans. This evening sent a couple of hellos to new researchers and found info on standard job descriptions for TAs. Last night asked FT at the junior school for a copy of their TA job spec. Also WB suggested asking GW the bursar for a job description. Here is a copy of my thoughts on a org chart as they don't exist although there is a staff meeting in Monday to discuss the staffing structure. I've just wondered wheter I should be keeping a log of the hours I spend working.
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