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@wendyk101 Finished yesterday. I feel a bit flat and deflated. It's weird. It's been a really hard year, but I think for me it's that's there's so much to do before the new term! I hope you have a lovely break.

@PaulGarvey4 @Beka_Staples @englishspecial @Ofstednews Thank you.

@MrsKS1Teach @Beka_Staples @englishspecial @Ofstednews Whole school. Not lesson plans. I know. This framework was designed for secondary schools, not small primaries. There’s lots of (free) stuff on my website from schools that have been through it. Good luck. This framework is so hard on people teachers like this, @Ofstednews🙁

Finishing my last SEF of the school year, today, but working with schools so closely on Ofsted prep shows me clearly how this framework is forcing them to jump through curriculum hoops to prove their worth. It's just wrong. This is not 'the substance of education' @Ofstednews

@Happyte53613818 @PaulGarvey4 @Ofstednews I thought that too. It all seems to be very secondary biased from the single subject inspections. They expect primaries to have the same depth in all subjects as secondary schools. There's an agenda behind it I'm sure!

@PaulGarvey4 @Ofstednews I thought planning was for the teachers so they knew what to teach but it appears that it really is for Ofsted to look at. Very demoralising. #3

@PaulGarvey4 @Beka_Staples @englishspecial @Ofstednews everything just in case. We're spread too thin. It is exhausting!

@PaulGarvey4 @Beka_Staples @englishspecial @Ofstednews Is it mainly whole school progression documents and long term plans for subject areas that they will scrutinise? Or also lesson plans? I'm just (a very hardworking) teacher in a tiny school, we all wear a lot of hats. I'm terrified of a deep dive! I feel that we have to evidence

@PrimaryRocks1 @gazneedle Christmas!

Welcome to #PrimaryRocks. I'm @gazneedle your host. Tonight's Qs in a moment but 1st ...

@DowningAndy @llewelyn20 😂 I wonder what is still to come! 🙄

@llewelyn20 So what you are basically saying is that you are young and inexperienced? 😀

I’ve lived through accelerated reading, fresh start, precision teaching, use a reading ruler, don’t use a reading ruler, thinking hats, cognitive load, VAK, learning styles, RWI, rainbow reading, Lexia, thinking reading, guided, carousel, direct instruction, peer assessment.

@mart_compton @llewelyn20 😂

@EmilySinderber1 @MrTs_NQTs ways. TA of routines and relationships. Supply of following a variety of lesson plans, different year groups and schools. Good luck with whichever you choose..

@EmilySinderber1 @MrTs_NQTs This is crystal ball gazing but ... I predict a busy year for supply teachers next year... If positive cases have to isolate, yet bubbles are no longer a thing, so kids still stay at school, supply teachers are going to be in demand! 💷 Both will be good experience in different..

@mouette233 @MrTs_NQTs I took a supposed 'EY teacher job'. It actually was just a nursery nurse job in a private nursery with a fancy title. Rubbish money, long days 12.5 hours, all contact time, no time to prep lovely activities, short holidays, permanently short staffed. I only stayed a few months.

@MrTs_NQTs Couldn't secure a job as an MFL teacher but I've been offered a job as an early years teacher, but the salary is waaay below what I should get an an NQT in London. Is it because it's an independent school or are the EY teachers supposed to be paid less than the others?

@BeckyMarie80 4/2/3/2 (the 3 is a treble number)

@Mr_Minchin I let them go whenever they need to but never at the same time as their bestie! Just wait for... to come back, then you can go!

@KeepEYsUnique Doesn't really do it justice does it! Nevermind how demoralising it must be to not even be at expected standard despite having 12 months less life experience!

@KeepEYsUnique I hate the blanket terms GLD and Expected Standard for KS1 & 2! Expected by who? If we must measure and assess children, a steps of progress approach would be preferable. Also it sounds rubbish, both child and teacher work their socks off all year to be 'expected' or 'good' 😑

@MissMaster__ @MrTs_NQTs Also you could give each child one of the theirs to hold and then read a little story including lots of there's. They raise their word when they hear it. Discuss how they knew.

@MrsKS1Teach @MrTs_NQTs Thank you, have you their, there and they’re with Year 2?

I have an interview for a 20 minute SPaG lesson with Year 2. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated @MrTs_NQTs

@MissMaster__ @MrTs_NQTs Ildren e.g. Okay this sentence is for the children on the back row. The rest of the class thumbs up if you agree.

@MissMaster__ @MrTs_NQTs Yes, as in the i is a little person, there has here hiding in it and the apostrophe is secretly a super ninja a from the word are. Obs teach technical term 'contracted form' too. Homophones are a good focus for a 20 min SPaG.

@MissMaster__ @MrTs_NQTs After introducing the three theres you could write them on large paper, then read a sentence and ask the pupils to go and stand next to the correct one. Then discuss why it's correct. I would recommend from a behaviour management point of view that you select smaller groups of ch

@MissMaster__ @MrTs_NQTs Good luck BTW. Year 2 are a lovely age to teach! 🙂👍