I (Mark) am currently supply teaching at Firth Park community College, which is in Shiregreen and not Firth Park. Go figure! Anyway they found out last night that OFSTED are coming on Thursday and Friday, so the normal calm relaxed teachers have become beavers, going here, there, and everywhere. Meetings galore etc. I have kept saying that Ofsted should come in with 1 hours notice or less, because they would see the school for what it actually is, and not how well they perform under a false situation. Obviously the type of school will come out more or less but not completly because the kids can't change that much. I have been to schools where special measures have been avoided and while others which are better have been put under them. It seems to be a very strange system and not actually that effective in my very uninformed and uneducated opinion. All seems to be about appearance and I am not a fan of just appearing to know what your doing. Enough of my rant, and here is hoping that the inspectors realise it is pointless to inspect a supply teacher who is not an english specialist. Imagine, the inspectors saying 'Mark seemed to have a lack of subject knowledge'. I wonder why, nothing to do with my 2 Cs at english at GCSE. (if you don't believe in miracles, you should because i managed to get them o so many years ago).
Anyway my rant has ended and i now move onto a lovely year 11 class who do no work.
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