As mentioned last week, I was recently in hospital for minor surgery on my jaw. Unfortunately, this meant that I had to miss a lesson with my year 10 GCSE class.
I set them cover work that I hoped they would find engaging and set off for my appointment without concern. I have a fantastic relationship with this group of students and felt confident that they would behave and work hard during my absence.
Perhaps foolishly, the first thing that I did upon leaving surgery was check my work emails. In my in-box was a lengthy email from one of our cover supervisors detailing the appalling behaviour of certain members of the year 10 group during their lesson.
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