How’s it going after two weeks back in the ring? Purring along nicely? Sun-tan fading, but the teaching a breeze? Perhaps you’d forgotten just how richly fulfilling this lark can be? Or perhaps not? It might feel more like minor trauma? Are you already zonked and considering vagrancy? Many, apparently, are.
Well, consider the NQTs.
Like Ms Sissy Jupe, English teacher. She’s already excellent, a natural – very bright, inner city sussed, passionate about the subject, witty, funny – and she likes children. These may count against her. Mere control seems all the rage these days. It goes far beyond the received wisdom that I was given so long ago. You know... get September right and the rest will follow, get it wrong and you’re toast, be firm but fair, you’re not their friend, and don’t smile ‘til Christmas.
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