Mixed news day
Today I had a chat with my mentor teacher about next term... They are taking away one of my tough English class, on the one hand i've been having trouble with them and this is the class that made someone quit, on the other does this mean they think i'm crap cause I can't handle them? I think i'll be bringing this up tomorrow with someone up the chain just to see what's happening.
Anyway, the good news is they've replaced that class with another elective that i'll be teaching instead. Mythbusters! It's an elective science course based on the show where you look at one of the myths they do and then see what can be done in the classroom to play with it. It's seriously awesome and I am so excited for next term.
It's actually been a really weird day with the kids, there's bitchiness between year 8 girls, one group of whom want to confide in me and tell me everything, the other girl who wants to punch me in the face and is avoiding school because it's all my fault; my year 9 girls were pissed off today when they realised I won't be teaching them next term (thankfully they didn't take it out on me but they promised - or possibly threatened - to follow me to classes next term and just show up so they could pretend I was still their teacher, my year 8 boys have decided it's hilarious to pat me on the head as I walk past and call me Mrs Buttercup rather than my name, and there's some random kids I don't even teach who keep trying to hang out in my classroom at lunch. So on the whole i'm thinking i've made a mostly positive impact on the kids.
Anyways tomorrow we're are off to Melbourne for Jesus Christ Superstar starring Tim Minchin and Sporty Spice! (Sad confession time - I'm as excited about the Spice Girls as I am for Tim Minchin) and then next weekend it's off to Adelaide for Idina Menzel, Barossa winery fun and random Adelaide adventures with Rox - who will finally forgive me for having seen Idina live in London without her.
Anyway, the good news is they've replaced that class with another elective that i'll be teaching instead. Mythbusters! It's an elective science course based on the show where you look at one of the myths they do and then see what can be done in the classroom to play with it. It's seriously awesome and I am so excited for next term.
It's actually been a really weird day with the kids, there's bitchiness between year 8 girls, one group of whom want to confide in me and tell me everything, the other girl who wants to punch me in the face and is avoiding school because it's all my fault; my year 9 girls were pissed off today when they realised I won't be teaching them next term (thankfully they didn't take it out on me but they promised - or possibly threatened - to follow me to classes next term and just show up so they could pretend I was still their teacher, my year 8 boys have decided it's hilarious to pat me on the head as I walk past and call me Mrs Buttercup rather than my name, and there's some random kids I don't even teach who keep trying to hang out in my classroom at lunch. So on the whole i'm thinking i've made a mostly positive impact on the kids.
Anyways tomorrow we're are off to Melbourne for Jesus Christ Superstar starring Tim Minchin and Sporty Spice! (Sad confession time - I'm as excited about the Spice Girls as I am for Tim Minchin) and then next weekend it's off to Adelaide for Idina Menzel, Barossa winery fun and random Adelaide adventures with Rox - who will finally forgive me for having seen Idina live in London without her.