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Victoria Hewett
Sep 13, 20208 min read
Mrs Humanities shares… Tips for Roaming Teachers
Wow, what a week. First full week back and it was certainly different. The number of times I left my whiteboard controller in other...


Victoria Hewett
Oct 27, 20193 min read
Mrs Humanities shares… templates for teaching
One of the things I mention to people when I talk about how I’ve cut down my workload is how I have a template bank of ‘go-to’ resources....

Victoria Hewett
Aug 31, 20194 min read
Got back to school anxiety? Don’t worry, it’s perfectly normal.
I’ve seen lots of tweets this last week about back to school anxiety and I just wanted to say that new school year nerves are completely...


Victoria Hewett
Feb 21, 20197 min read
Mrs Humanities explores… Staff Wellbeing Policies
I’ve had the urge this week to explore school wellbeing policies. I don’t have any particular reason to do so, it was just something that...


Victoria Hewett
Jan 5, 20195 min read
We need Breakthroughs NOT Breakdowns in Teaching.
The title of this post is inspired by the Education Support Partnership’s Christmas Campaign 2018. Reason being I went through through...


Victoria Hewett
Sep 22, 20184 min read
Mrs Humanities shares… how I cut down my marking workload.
If there is one thing that has had the biggest impact on my work-life balance it has to be assessment and marking. There was once a time...


Victoria Hewett
Jul 29, 20187 min read
Mrs Humanities shares… 5 reasons teachers are leaving the profession
5 reasons to stay in teaching. We need more teachers; teachers are leaving the profession and few are being replaced. The numbers of...

Victoria Hewett
Feb 14, 20181 min read
Resource – 1066 and all that
I’ve just been going through some of my resources I realised I’ve a lot of history resources I’m unlikely to use any time soon but I...


Victoria Hewett
Feb 10, 20182 min read
Mrs Humanities shares… Subject Specific Teacher Facebook Groups
It was pointed out to me after sharing my last Mrs Humanities shares… post on History Revision Resources that many people share their...
Victoria Hewett
Sep 1, 20171 min read
PedagooHampshire Presentation
Less is More – Strategies to Reduce Workload At last year’s Pedagoo Hampshire event I presented on Less is More – Marking with a Purpose....
Victoria Hewett
Apr 23, 20172 min read
Breakdown, reach out, recover.
In April 2016, on return to work after the Easter break I had a breakdown. Anxiety hit as I walked into my classroom the morning after...

Victoria Hewett
Aug 31, 20163 min read
Experiences in Long Term Planning
Planning lessons, is probably one of my favourite parts of being a teacher. If I’m honest it wasn’t until half way through my NQT year...

Victoria Hewett
Feb 24, 20155 min read
Reducing the Workload – Marking and Feedback Ideas
Current Context My usual approach to marking is that I identify spelling mistakes of topical key words throughout each piece of work. I...
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