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Breaking a golden NQT rule

NQTs Staff wellbeing
Our NQT diarist has stuck to three golden rules during her first year at the chalkface, but this week found herself surprisingly angry after one of them was broken...

They call them the half-term blues, but they seem to have stuck with me even now and I can’t shake them off.

Although I have been back a while now, I still miss the comfort of a good lie in and it hurts that little bit more each time the alarm goes off. Maybe the trick is to keep waking up at 6am even when on holiday (surely not)! 

I am in work early, alone in a desolate building (it is very much the calm before the storm), staring at my inbox which is alive with coloured flags, folders and emails to reply to before I am invaded by my tutor group.

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