Top Tip For Workload

During my training, I used to be up every single night until gone midnight, planning lessons for the following day and it just wasn’t feasible to keep it up. So, I needed a new way of planning and, whilst I understand that this cannot and will not work for everyone, it might be a saviour for some.

During each holiday, I set aside a couple of days, or a certain amount of hours here and there, and dedicate them to work. I look at the scheme of work for each year group and plan their lessons for the next half-term entirely.

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Obviously, I sometimes have to adjust what I have planned, but it has been a real help to me and, as each teaching year passes, I have to do less and less planning from scratch because of the bank of the resources I have already built up.

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As I said, it might work for you, it might not, but I would advise giving it a go and would definitely recommend working at the start of the holidays, getting work out of the way so you can really enjoy the precious little free time that you have!