I knew today was going to be a bad day when there was an accident on the way to school, I had to re-route altogether losing a lot of time. Eventually I got to school - just. This should have been the first omen that they day would not go well and that I should have stayed in bed!
Today during English we were exploring the Holocaust as it is Holocaust week. I had planned some activities one involved watching some clips online about Anne frank - this worked on Friday. However the iplayer, good old bbc, had decided to remove their drama and documentary about Anne Frank during Holocaust week: logical! This meant that most of my lessons were buggered and I had to re-think what we were doing, while chaos resumed all around me. I should have known I guess that even though we are a technology school, out technology is not to be relied upon, even if it wasn't our fault this time!
Kids that had made progress last week, who I had rung home about and passed this on, this week disappointingly so today had regressed back to their poor behaviour, causing much disruption to the lesson and stopped learning. Making most of my lessons rubbish today. This was really depressing. What was more depressing had I have been attacked I would have had to take it, as no one responded to my emails for help with some difficult decisions, not the deputy heads or the head. The day ended on a further bad note, when some girls once again carried on picking on another girl, throwing food at her in the lesson, attempting to throw wet paper and then film it on their mobiles when the girl's mother has recently died. This sickened me to the stomach , and although they don't know this, this doesn't make their behaviour much more acceptable. Yet as per usual they along with all the others are allowed to get away wish such appalling behaviour.
I had 8 year 10's back after school for help with their coursework, none willing to get on with it and help themselves, why they are so lazy is beyond me. But for the ones who did work solidly, I was impressed.
They day at home did not progress well, nothing I have tried to do for tomorrow's lessons has gone right - this is why I am writing this, as I am currently waiting for some youtube clips to download for my lessons. So far unsuccessfully. All I want to do is go to bed but I can't, and the worse thought is that I have to get up in 7 hours time, to be abused, to have crappy lessons that are disrupted, for nothing to be done about the disruptor's and for the good kids to suffer. It is exactly what I came into teaching for!
Bring it on!
