This is what I have done today. It's been a good day, on the whole, and illustrates perfectly what a typical day for a teacher involves.
8am
Setting up the speakers in the hall and preparing computer and props for assembly.
8.15am
Setting up classroom for the day. Editing PowerPoint with days activities on and writing calculations for maths.
8.30am
Briefing TA on the day ahead and things to watch out for.
8.45am
Children enter school. I check their reading records, collect money and slips for Mother's Day pressies, lunch, trips and other things. Children engage in morning task, set on the Interactive whiteboard.
8.55am
Registration.
9am
Lead my class to assembly. Deliver to 350 kids -a dramatic and interactive retelling of the Boy Who Cried Wolf. I teach them a song and actions to finish.
9.30am
Tidy hall. Shut down computer. Pack away speakers.
9.35am
Teach class sketching techniques for a World Book Day drawing competition. All children make a start.
9.45am
Computer technicians speak to me about problems we are having.
9.55am
A TA complains to me about the behaviour of a child in an intervention group from my class. I told her I'd deal with it.
10am
Maths in sets - Column subtraction, differentiated three ways.
10:20am
Further questions from Computing technicians about installing Python and Skype on our system.
10.45am
Break. Stayed in with the Boy who'd been messing around before whilst he wrote a letter of apology.
11am
Read Write Inc spelling groups - fifteen minutes of intense spelling practice. I have a mixed class from Year 3 to 6 for this.
11.15am
Back to normal class groups, continue with drawing from earlier. A nice lesson.
11.40am
Get the water colours out. Brief children on how to use these properly, looking at brush stroke techniques.
12pm
Pupil progress meeting. A relief teacher covers my class for a few minutes while I meet with the Senior Leaders to discuss progress (or lack of) for each child in my class. Steps agreed to move forward through small groups and targeted work.
12.30pm
Go through lesson with a Y4 teacher for topic work on Anglo Saxon clothing which I had prepared.
12.40pm
Order some online resources about the Scots and Picts. (Like searching for a noodle in a haystack.)
1pm
A quick bite to eat in the staffroom and some down time with the other staff.
1.15pm
Back in class. Registration for the afternoon. Hearing three children read.
1.30pm
Children finish off water colours. There are some fantastic examples, although one child knocks a cup of water all over someone else's work.
1.55pm
Tidy classroom.
2pm
Computing lesson. In groups, children storyboard a sports tuition film in groups for Sports Relief.
2.15pm
Go outside to film. Children have to avoid the corridor as an incident with a child from another class is ongoing.
2.40pm
Come back in and download all clips onto the children's drive. Quite a complex process for Year 3.
3pm
Show examples of art work to class.
3.05pm
Get coats.
3.10pm
Kids go home.
3.15pm
Another parent turns up to fit a new amp that he has supplied for the school hall. I show him how the system works.
3.30pm
Photocopying for tomorrow.
3:45pm
Marking.
5pm
Home time.
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