'I'm a teacher and this is what we really do on half term – it's not all fun and games'

Half word is here, and parents volition beryllium looking guardant to clip spent with their kids – oregon scrabbling to find activities to support them occupied. But person you ever wondered however teachers walk the week?

A teacher has shared what they get up to erstwhile schoolhouse closes for the half-term holidays – and for them, it's not conscionable a break.

For a week each term, the kids are location from schoolhouse and parents get to bask immoderate prime clip with their youngsters – oregon are near scrabbling to find activities to support them engaged each day. But person you ever wondered what teachers bash during their week off?

Turns out, it tin impact rather a batch of work. Taking to TikTok, secondary schoolhouse teacher and caput of PSHE Mrs Sayer shared an penetration into however she spends her days erstwhile she's not astatine school.

"This is everything I got done contiguous arsenic a teacher who's presently connected fractional term," she told her 99.6k followers. "I cognize it's arguable to enactment done the holidays, but I would alternatively enactment for a mates of days and past person my weekends escaped each passim the term.

"So I conscionable started readying my week," she added, sharing she'd got her planner from the Positive Teacher Company.

She past explained however she had misremembered the students' schedules arsenic they wouldn't beryllium successful connected Monday, truthful noted she'd person to readjust her plan. "I thatch 3 exam groups, truthful during the word time, astir of my vigor goes into them successful presumption of marking and that. So I utilized contiguous to program my Year Seven, Eight and Nine lessons to get maine started."

She explained further however she made a to-do database and planned to bash "PPAs" (Planning, Preparation, and Assessment) erstwhile she did immoderate much marking. "I'm besides caput of PSHE (Personal, social, wellness and economical education) and we presently person the originative program that was brought successful for this schoolhouse year." She said she "didn't emotion it," truthful took a five-year program program from a schoolhouse she utilized to enactment astatine and adjusted it for her caller school.

"So that's what I did from 9[am] to 2pm today," she concluded.

In the comments, radical had further questions for the teacher, with 1 writing: "Do you inactive get yearly permission arsenic a teacher oregon does fractional presumption number arsenic yearly leave? I’ve ever wondered, not definite if it’s a anserine question," to which Mrs Sayer responded: "No yearly leave! The holidays are the designated clip disconnected and they’re unpaid. Our wage is for word clip and past divided into monthly payments."

Another teacher further clarified: "You tin inactive instrumentality days disconnected passim the twelvemonth for definite circumstances but lone similar a time for moving location oregon a wedding successful my school," portion different said their schoolhouse was overmuch stricter and didn't let days disconnected during word time.

"THE TEACHER HANDWRITING," said another, portion a 3rd chimed in: "She’s truthful organised."