Wow, what a week. First full week back and it was certainly different. The number of times I left my whiteboard controller in other...

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....

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...

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...

The title of this post is inspired by the Education Support Partnership’s Christmas Campaign 2018. Reason being I went through through...

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...

5 reasons to stay in teaching. We need more teachers; teachers are leaving the profession and few are being replaced. The numbers of...

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...

It was pointed out to me after sharing my last Mrs Humanities shares… post on History Revision Resources that many people share their...

Less is More – Strategies to Reduce Workload At last year’s Pedagoo Hampshire event I presented on Less is More – Marking with a Purpose....

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...

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...

Current Context My usual approach to marking is that I identify spelling mistakes of topical key words throughout each piece of work. I...