The summer holidays are the crown jewel of the school calendar. It’s the time everyone can actually switch off, relax and not be a teacher for a few weeks. It’s the big reset. The opportunity to come back refreshed and raring to go in September. Here are 5 tips that…

For many of you, it is the first full week of the summer holidays. And boy, does it feel good to be off school! You can wake up when you wish! You can pee whenever you fancy! You can drink a cuppa tea whilst it’s still hot! The possibilities are…

When you break up for the summer, you are initially full of hope. You’ve got 6 weeks ahead of you with no school required. You can get up whenever you fancy it (or at least have a mini lie in compared to school days…). Yet, inside you feel rubbish. You…

When the school bell rings on the final day, the temptation is to run for the hills on the heels of the kids as quickly as possible without a backward glance. You’ve had an incredibly long year (each year seems to feel longer). You’re incredibly tired (you wonder how you…

You’re probably feeling it right now. That sense that you haven’t got much left to give. That you want the summer holidays to be here already. That you’re crawling through treacle in your attempts to finish your to-do list you want nothing more to do with. But you know you…

You’re counting down the days to the summer holidays. You feel like you are clinging on by your finger tips, hoping against hope for a quiet end of term. When the end of term finally arrives, it can often feel like an anti-climax. You’ve been waiting so long for the…

For many teachers, boundaries are an ideal, a pipe dream. Something they know they ought to have but just can’t seem to put in place and keep in place. Maybe this is the same for you. …

As a teacher, your mind is like your very own snow globe; flurrying around endlessly with ideas, worries and concerns. Now, thinking is obviously a valuable activity and is certainly worthy of our time. Yet, sometimes, it can become all-consuming and drain us of energy. You may find that you…

It’s June and the summer holidays are just around the corner. How you have dreamed of the summer holidays arriving! With their guarantee of rest and recuperation from the frantic nature of school. Yet, there’s still a few weeks to go. Sometimes, you feel like Olaf from Frozen, wondering what…