Out of interest, did you still have in person training then? I know I did for SATs. I genuinely think the switch to online training is one of the biggest problems in marking quality

Yes yes yes to all this. Unpaid, extra work of training, on top of the unpaid extra work of doing the mentoring is a recipe for disaster and totally unfair to people who are already stretched

A much-needed type of lunchtime, after a week of being Head of Y7 trying to navigate them through using the canteen 🤪

The tables stay lovely and straight when there are no kids in 😂

And so Year 18 begins. We also had a giant flood into our English text cupboard this afternoon and had to rescue over £2.5k of new books as torrents poured on my head, but we’ll forget that bit.

They’ll just be adding speech marks around single words from the report instead, just you wait

Ha, it is much easier when cooking for yourself!

The only reliable and not intensely boring form of ‘meal prep’ that exists is “cooking enough dinner for lunch leftovers”.

It’s a perfect back to school treat!

Rewatching Colin From Accounts in preparation for the new series next week, instead of preparing for the new school year, is a choice I stand by