Jenny works in a one form entry junior school. Next week is half term. During which, she will be planning, or thinking about her lessons for the next 6-week half term.
30 Literacy lessons
30 Maths lessons
30 Guided reading lessons
12 Science lessons
12 PE lessons
12 Handwriting lessons
12 Computing lessons
6 History lessons
6 Art lessons
6 Geography lessons
6 Music lessons
6 RE lessons
6 DT lessons
6 Spelling lessons
All lessons will need to take into account different abilities in the class, the pace of the learning, the right amount of challenge, resources, PowerPoints, special needs, prior learning, types of questions to use, subject knowledge.
Jenny also has 5 classroom displays to change.
1 Communal display to put up
150 books to mark
60 test papers to mark
A school trip to organise
School blogs to update
Assessments updated online for 30 pupils for all subjects
But luckily, Jenny gets all the school holidays so that’s ok.
Fake Headteacher 
For which she isnt paid
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Jenny forgot MFL and topic lessons. She also needs to plan interventions and an after school club!
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Pretty normal then but sounds much easier listed like this… Only 150 books to mark? Cant believe that. (Parents evenings, assessment opportunities and record keeping as well as interactive white-board lesson materials, meetings with parents, policy up-dates, staff-meetings and those wonderfully useful early morning briefings, inputting tracking data, and the “another new initiative”, staff training after school, resourcing lessons, ordering library loans and collecting them….
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