171. Cover

I’d determined to chisel out a role for myself this term.  My hysterectomy was booked for 11^th October but that left loads of time.  I put myself on the cover list and waited.  Sure enough, the work started trickling in.  The first couple of times I was very apprehensive but I soon got used to it.

I mainly cover English.  No class (so far) has been unbearable.  A couple of year 9 classes have been a bit bouncy.  I covered one for S that was so noisy I had to send them out to come in to the classroom again in a more controlled manner.  Three kids couldn’t manage it so I sent them to the duty office which is a  punishment room.  Getting sent there is automatically a whole school detention. 

I’ve also been doing controlled assessment catch-up’s for any of the English department.  A controlled assessment is in effect a mini exam, performed under exam conditions in a classroom but prepared in the classroom with the teacher.

In the times between cover and controlled assessment, I’ve been writing a scheme of work for next half term for exam practise.  Normally I like writing schemes of work, but this is boring!  My own fault.  I picked it.