Eish! London 22 May

Friday, 22 May

Sent: 22 May 2009 11:49
Subject: FEEDBACK on yesterday’s school

Hi Jonn

Yesterday began alright enough, without lesson plans. In the first lesson one boy was still causing even after he returned from a time out for his first three warnings, so a TA took over in the second lesson and went with him to the ‘special room’. The kids were just generally noisy and irritating, but then 4 different teachers were disrupting by walking in and out of the class all morning. Their class teacher even told them off amidst the chaos.

The second session between the breaks went really well. The kids were on their individual laptops. I created a great lesson. No teachers interrupted. All was great.

Last session... they divided the other Year 6 class in half and put one half in with my class. They (+/- 30 mixed class individuals) were supposed to be doing posters for a competition, over an hour for a poster they could do in 15 minutes! Two girls were niggling and causing and figuratively pushing me ... noise and nonsense growing, teachers (were sporadically walking in and telling learners off) and learners from other classes were　coming in and　out at regular intervals. I sent out one boy; then another one (the same ‘time out’ one from earlier) runs out the back door and climbs over the two storey playground fence to sit on the top.　Then four others run out to chase after him.　The kids, who I'm trying to keep in and control,　go ape. Literally ape, whilst one of the two above-mentioned girls starts telling me that I should be out in the playground with the 5 of them and not in the classroom, that I’m not doing my job!

Their teacher came back, sent me out and yelled at them　AGAIN. I stood in the school passage way with my head on the cool wall, recuperating. I went back in and the vile sad specimen of a child (who believed I wasn’t doing my job) decided to　rip me to pieces in front of everyone, insulting every part of me she could - from my ‘brains’ to　appearance to the way I do my washing...

{Aside note to you: I almost began to tell her what I thought of her, then I breathed deeply and decided not to stoop to her level, she saw my hesitation and told me to say what I was going to. I looked at her: "I’m not allowed to tell you what I’m thinking." This aggravated her and she proceeded with more vile insults. I prayed.}I stood there and stared at her ranting and then I proceeded to ignore the vile wretch. So she started yelling at　other people, then others who had been causing from the new class before picked up their misbehaviour; they were running around chasing each other like Neanderthals!

Kids will be kids, but I'm not up for an 11 year old insulting me from her peanut sized brain and　incomprehensibly mollycoddled ego, where the sheer vague realisation of the　audacity of her behaviour won't ever even reach the slightest level of enlightenment! 　

The day ended late because of a fire drill and the head teacher yelling at them.

Then I get to the underground and my trip to and from Forest Gate cost me £10! The underground patrol guy had told me I could use my Oyster for the overground　- he lied! At least the teller on the other side of the trip was kind and gave me £9 back. I had no idea on the overground payment story. I need to be informed of these things before I go to these out of my area places please.

Thanks for posting me new envelopes and timesheets. They arrived on Wednesday.

Regards

Shannan

From: Jonn
Subject: RE: FEEDBACK on yesterday’s school
Date: Friday, 22 May, 2009, 17:39

Hey sunshine,

Thanks for your feedback, if it is worth anything, as my text said the deputy head said she thought you did really well the day you were there.

As I mentioned, it is a toughy, they’ve just come out of special measures and the kids come from not so lovely home-lives. Some teachers love it and others hate it, I think it’s just one of those kinds of schools.

With the Oyster cards, you can use them on overground trains; do you have a travel card or pay as you go weekly card? You live in zone 4, so you should have a zone 1-4 travel card, or a 3-4 travel card. The school was only in zone 3 so it shouldn’t have cost you anything really, but you got £9 back so that was good going!!

Kind Regards

Jonn

I have absolutely no idea how the deputy could possibly have thought I had a good day! This city never ceases to amaze me.