{"id":2039,"date":"2013-01-07T20:57:07","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T19:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=2039"},"modified":"2013-01-07T20:57:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T19:57:07","slug":"day-7-back-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/07\/day-7-back-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 7: Back to Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was the first day back at work in 2013. As appears to have become the tradition, it was an INSET<\/a> or training day. This one was held at a local hotel, as it is an opportunity for the ten schools in our partnership to meet up and work together.<\/p>\n

In case you were wondering, this is relatively uncommon. It is more usual for schools to work on their own and\u00a0develop\u00a0their staff within their own environment. This can mean a consultant or expert coming in, but it may equally be given to a member of staff to organise based around a specific subject. As ten schools are involved in organising this, it means a spreading of the costs for said consultant, which is great for our budget!<\/p>\n

I am not planning on boring you all with details from today, as frankly it wasn’t great. There were many positive moments, and much of what was said I agreed with. However, as much of the advice given is already part of the way I teach, it’s hard to take anything but a feeling of, “Well, I’m doing\u00a0OK\u00a0then,” from it. Which is pleasing and gives me a warm glow inside!<\/p>\n

The other main\u00a0feature\u00a0of the day was considering my class at the moment. Working with them is not always easy, but I really do enjoy my job.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow brings the challenge of not being in class for the morning as I am working with some other staff in school. Being the children’s first day back after a long break, and the instant removal of a key part of the structure of their school day – me – is not going to be easy for them. Time will tell how they react.<\/p>\n

In other news, we continued our cache a day challenge to try and fill up our calendar grid. This shows when we have cached<\/a> and how many we have done on each day.<\/p>\n

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Our cache a day calendar grid.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As you can see, we have some way to go, but we have filled in 42.3% of it already. That, as you may have noticed, includes February 29th! We don’t need to go and get a cache tomorrow, so that will be a day off. We hope to completely fill January and February by finding one each evening after school.<\/p>\n

I promise tomorrow’s blog will not mention geocaching in any way, shape or form.<\/p>\n

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