Had such a bad migraine yesterday I took myself to bed at 8 which was wise as I tthougth I was teaching from 8.45 today right through to 4.30 as the teacher was off and that was what had been arranged. Sadly as I dressed this morning I realised my jumper was missing. It was not at school either. And I finally twigged I must have lost it on the way home last night as it was very warm and I had taken it off and I was feeling so ill. This is a blow when you have very few clothes in the first place and an even bigger blow as clothes cost a lot here and my income is virtually nill and one needs lots of clothes here.
Luckily the teaching all started idyllically. As soon as the kids were in class we started reading an English Kygyz book together and one boy read both the Kyrgyz and the English which was pretty good, but then five mins in a girl turned up to teach them dance. (i.e I did not need to rush in for 8.45) When they finished dancing the kids more or less got on with drawing when I wanted to finish the story, then when I came to teach maths, yes again they refused (some did do some maths and happily played bingo till the girls had a spat and refused to play together) and even when I tried teaching English because I had to teach them two lessons to compensate for the class they missed on Tuesday one girl just kind of said " Am I bothered!" whilst the others knuckled down briefly at the threat of being sent to the Head. She stayed drawing on the board and this confirmed something I had suspected earlier. That more of my chalk is in her possession than mine. So I reclaimed it whilst the children were at lunch (it was in a see thru side pocket that was not zipped), then she realised during second class and made sure she had to do something on the board and re-pocketed it. I am sure people who have taught primary school children much longer than me will say that this kind of cheekiness is typical but I could do without it. In the second lesson she and two other girls decided the lesson was over, and started packing up my books and insisted on taking them to my staff area. None of which was necessary or wanted. As a result she actually did not finish the unit that most of the others were busy working on and here they are graded at the end of term so she has brought her grade down by not co-operating.All the girls here have a tendency to want to be very helpful when I am leaving class, and sometimes that is useful as I always arrive with a mass of stuff, but I am deeply suspicious of some of their motives, but with this girl is it is either that she really cannot sit for that long or something else so I need to try and find out.All staff give feedback to the head each month, but as I am not privy to this information I have no idea if other staff have these problems. I hope to try and pin the head down and go through a number of issues like this, but of course there is never any time and the staff training next week will not actually give us time for useful things like this it will just involve discuss schemes of work, which I have had to change because of all the extra work for the end of term event tomorrow and quality control! Joy, Joy. Whereas I want to discuss school communication, the children and their needs and discipline.
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