Nearly 26 years old and a fully qualified teacher and I still sit giggling to myself over endless tweets from teenagers after literally any GCSE exam

Just for the first time got to experience my year 11s walking out of the exam hall and up to the army of English teachers waiting for them… many, many tears of pride from me 🥺🥺🥺🥺

In Kharkiv, 2022 high school graduates are dancing a waltz on the ruins of their school building. Since Russia launched a full-scale military invasion of Ukraine, HRW has documented cases of Russian military forces committing laws-of-war violations against civilians in Kharkiv.

The English education system is now built in a way to make you feel like you aren’t good enough as a teacher; so always remember the impact you have each day - keep the Thankyou notes, remember the lightbulb moments, recall the feeling at the end of a great lesson.

Every single one of my year 11s at precisely 11:33am when they saw me outside the exam hall:

Stormzy has received an honorary degree from the University of Exeter in recognition of his outstanding achievements in higher education philanthropy. This includes the "Stormzy Scholarship", which provides Scholarships for Black British students at the University of Cambridge 👏🏾

I saved a bee with the kids at school today. It was a good day 🥰

The grief of a child you’ve worked tirelessly with for two years being permanently excluded. The emotional battery of this job, I feel actual pain. Again.

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💜I love my job but my job will put me in an early grave💜

It’s actually a bit mad that I’m currently working between 12 and 14 hours a day just to make sure I get a weekend (and even then I will probably work Sunday night)… “but the holidays!” … All worked in a 60-70 hour week

I love A Christmas Carol. I love reading it. I love teaching it. “The misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power forever”. I just think it is a story that really matters

Year 10 boys in the summer be like

This is the week where everything in my life changes. I leave my job on Thursday, leaving teaching behind forever, currently with no other job to go to. I’ve never felt so scared/brave/excited. Just trying to focus more on the latter, and finally feel like a person again ❤️‍🩹

That time of year where I think so deeply about applying for a PhD and never quite find the ‘braveness’ to do it…

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