u/Roses_are_Purple

Have a y8 class that groaned and griped about starting a poetry unit. They hate the idea of poetry completely because it’s boring and difficult and generally annoying apparently. I read Manhunt to them by Simon Armitage this week and I got that rumble across the class which I thought was disruption. Typically naughty girls on front row started chatting so I went to admonish and they replied “no miss I was just saying that it actually gave me shivers”. I struggled to control them because they all wanted to talk about it at once.

Can I ask if it’s normal to not have PPE specifically allocated in your timetable? There’s been maternity paternity and MFL speaking exams recently so I lost a lot of frees of the fortnight to cover (not best timing given marking for trust mandated tests for y10) but I’ve been told previously that “it’s factored in” when I’ve queried directed time. My previous school had frees that *might* be taken for cover and then protected time whereas this school o just have times when I’m not working and might get pulled…