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[MisHapp]

Hurray... then I have to do IEPs, MTPs, Literacy & SENCo action plan.... the half term list just goes on and on *sigh*.

 

Ah well, at least I have here to distract me.

 

 

MH x

[AnnieP]

Oh heck. I haven't even started mine..... 32 to go.....

[Couperwife]

well done, you have hit a very important milestone!!!

what age do you teach? I teach 11 to 16 year old angels, that means that I have 5 different years of reports to write throughout the year and one to sort out (cos heaven forbid I should expect the little darlings to sort out their own 15 subject reports themselves!!)

 

good luck on the rest of the stuff, ill be here most of the day, just yell and ill be able to distract you enough !!

[MisHapp]

I teach in a teeny small school - only started a Easter, so I feel there's lots of info missing! Makes report writing interesting. Anyway, my class are Y2, Y3 and Y4 - they are fabbo.

 

*whispers* Sorry, Annie - I only have 19 in my class.

[Couperwife]

awww, sweet, I teach in classes about of 19, I just happen to have 3 groups per year group and 5 year groups - makes a lot of classes

[theherd123]

All this report writing takes me back to when i was in mainstream!

 

Im so glad im in special education now, although we have to write full reports for all our students on a 6 weekly basis so i dont know which one i would prefer

 

Stay focused guys you will be so glad if you get everything done before Friday so you can enjoy the weekend

[gooner.girl]

Haven't even thought about mine yet PE for Years 1-6... Sigh....

[AnnieP]

Stay focussed!

 

How about "get some focus"....

[theherd123]

Stay focussed!

 

How about "get some focus"....

 

Ok!

 

Get some focus AnnieP!

Those parents are wanting their childs report and there are kids out their wetting their pants wondering if they are going to get a tanned behind or a meal out!

Jump to it!

 

Does that help?

[AnnieP]

erm.......

Thanks Em!

[gooner.girl]

Quite the helpful sort, Our Em! Isn't she Annie?! Feel motivated now???

[Chocobo]

Is it just me or are there lot of teachers on omlet? I'm so glad I only have to get a report.. not write them.

[theherd123]

Quite the helpful sort, Our Em! Isn't she Annie?! Feel motivated now???

 

[AnnieP]

Erm, yes there are quite a few, and nurses too. Caring professions see?

[Snowy]

Except us nurses get to write our reports DURING our paid hours of work!

[theherd123]

Please dont rub it in!

 

 

[riane]

not started my class yet...but read alot from the rest of the key stage...I still find it difficult to proof read on screen though.

[Guest]

I teach 11 to 18 year olds. Reports for all year groups I teach (all except year 9) and for all those in my tutor group (All years 7 to 12!)

 

And work experience reports for year 11, references for year 11, university applications for year 12. Seems never ending!

 

We do our reports throug SIMS now, they are a load of old tosh. As a parent I wouldn't want them, its just one standard phrase after another with a free text field at the bottom. Trouble with free text is we would need to actually know the kids well enough to use it. I currently have 60 year 7 reports due, I teach these kids for 1 hour a week and they sit facing the computers for most of the lesson (guess what I teach?) so I barely know their names! I will end doing them by numbers, as in each kid gets the same numbered comments as the last one!

 

We have complained about this for years without understanding elsewhere. This year I have a maths teacher teaching a year 7 ICT class and she is as foxed as me, she said with maths she knows them all in about 3 weeks but with ICT she is still not sure after 2 1/2 terms!

[Snowy]

It never ceases to amaze me just how much interference there is in the work of you teachers. Most teachers I know are fantastic, dedicated and really committed to their work. But why can't the powers that be acknowledge this and let them get on with doing their job? I met a year 10 French teacher the other week - has been told her job is changing and she will be expected to teach other subjects in the future; and an ICT teacher with cupboards full of IT equipment that can't be used because 'there are no resources to set it all up'.

You all deserve medals!

[Guest]

Thanks for that Snowy - its too often you hear "oh but you get all those holidays". I want to tell people how every Christmas I'm ill - you go back school after the Christmas holiday and swap flu stories! Easter is coursework marking time. Summer is preparation time. It makes a refreshing change for someone to see what we do for what it is. Not that I don't love it!

 

I mentor a lot of new teachers (NQT's) and despite their year of training, teaching other peoples classes etc its still a baptism of fire to be on their own in the classroom. They just can't believe all the different demands that are on them - but thankfully they all get through and start to manage the bad and enjoy the good.

[Cate in NZ]

Except us nurses get to write our reports DURING our paid hours of work!

 

Ermm, I'm so glad you do. I'm supposed to write up my consultations as I see them but generally pressure of work means that I end up recording that a consultation took place and the important bits that I'd forget if I left them, like blood pressure readings etc. The rest gets edited at the end of the day, almost always after my official hours of work

 

It's interesting to hear all this talk of reports. Daughter (year 9) comes home with a grade sheet at the end of each term, what she achieved, what the average result for year 9 at that stage is, and what she's to aim at for the next term. We then have a meeting with her form tutor twice a year. School shuts for the day and each girl has to attend for a 10 minute interview, preferably with parents. that's it, no traditional written report. Son's school has all reports on the school website, and you can check them out throughout the year, but they're often a work in progress. Last term his English teacher forgot them altogether

[Snowy]

Except us nurses get to write our reports DURING our paid hours of work!

 

Ermm, I'm so glad you do. I'm supposed to write up my consultations as I see them but generally pressure of work means that I end up recording that a consultation took place and the important bits that I'd forget if I left them, like blood pressure readings etc. The rest gets edited at the end of the day, almost always after my official hours of work

 

It's interesting to hear all this talk of reports. Daughter (year 9) comes home with a grade sheet at the end of each term, what she achieved, what the average result for year 9 at that stage is, and what she's to aim at for the next term. We then have a meeting with her form tutor twice a year. School shuts for the day and each girl has to attend for a 10 minute interview, preferably with parents. that's it, no traditional written report. Son's school has all reports on the school website, and you can check them out throughout the year, but they're often a work in progress. Last term his English teacher forgot them altogether

Sorry to hear that Kate. The system is probably as bad for nurses as for teachers, just in different ways. I'm very fortunate in that I'm self employed, and don't do many hours anyway. I just get to see the effects of the system on those who work in it. Sorry, trying not to get too political as I could rant on for ever!