What can you say....

What can you say when a year 8 greets you in the corridor "Hi gorgoues" and by the time you have heard what she's said and turn round to respond she's off?

And then when you have her next lesson she says goodbye afterwards by saying "Goodbye sexy sir".... yes i turn to her and say "thats not appropiate" and she turns round and says "well I'm just saying...."

They need courses to deal with this, I get embarassed and the teacher next to me just laughs!!

I'm glad its Friday; I've had a really good day with my classes today, had some hard ones but they are slowly getting to the place I want them to be. I'm learning how to be harder on them! Some teachers said some nice things to me today and that made me feel good about myself... people can be so quick to critisise and slow to compliment...

Just to end with, I got some friendly words of advice from a certain head of year saying that apparently I'm not allowed to say to a student "You remind me of that Vicky Pollard off Little Britain"....again, never told that on all the thousands of courses! :)

Teaching! Post 1.

Havn't blogged for a while due to being stupidly busy, but thought would start up again now with funny stories from school and maybe a few thoughts or so, so here is a brand new start.

For those of you that don't know, I teach around 3 days a week at a local High School, and most of the time it is great fun but really hard work. I'm going to use this blog to share the ups and downs with you! Obviously the school and names will remain anonymous, as will I as I have now changed my picture and deleted previous posts- a brand new start!

Two interesting stories to share.

First involves what I (and the class) considered a very good putdown for a yr10 lad who was far too big for his boots in my class last week!

Pupil (known as Bob from here on)- *generally being an arse*
Me- Bob, will you please sit down and look forward now.
Pupil- *continues to be an arse*
Me- "can you shut up, firstly cos I want to teach and get my job done so I can get out of here away from little boys like you, and secondly cos if you carry on like this you will never get a girlfriend and the only people left for you will be fat middleaged men, and I wouldnt wish that on anyone... now either grow up or get out."
Pupil- *mouth open*
Rest of class- "Woo go you sir!" *General praise for Sir's "ownage" apparently*

So that was funny.

Final story for today- I have taken over a year 11 class and I have them weekly for the same lesson. Their last teacher seemed to be a bit more "fun" (ie.possesing a lack of rules) than I, and they have now (after a fun first lesson when I confiscated about 4 phones, got them all to empty their mouths into the bin, etc) learnt to be quiet when I'm talking, not get up ready to go as soon as the bell goes, etc.

Cue my class coming in...
Pupil A- *Notices me at my desk and motions to pupil B with her head subtly*
Pupil B- *whispers* what?
Pupil A- *Whispers* We've got that old B*st*rd again!
Me- trying not to crack up at my desk.

When will they learn that A) I dont care what they think of me because its more important to me to be a good teacher than for all the kids to like me, and
B)I have good hearing!

Thats all for now, its 22.45 and I need to go to bed as I'm up at 6.45 for a day of teaching... around 10 hours at school with 5 mins at break to sit down and 10 at lunch if I'm lucky. But I'm not counting on it....