Guest Posted September 1, 2004 Posted September 1, 2004 It was my first day back in school today and i come home feeling exhausted. What makes it worse is that is was only an inset day and there are no children in until tomorrow. Is it just me or does anyone else have trouble sleeping the day before you are due back to work after the hols. I must have woken up and checked the alarm clock 10 times. Hopefully tonight will be a better one! Tinyone Quote
Guest Posted September 1, 2004 Posted September 1, 2004 I'm exactly the same... my brain is whizzing around with ideas and 'I must do thats !'....but then after about 2 days I sleep like a log ! Have a lovely day with the children tomorrow and then I bet you'll sleep like a baby ! Quote
Susan Posted September 1, 2004 Posted September 1, 2004 Sounds about right Tinyone! and Sundays can be bad too!? Quote
Magenta Posted September 1, 2004 Posted September 1, 2004 I was woken up by my son at 2.40 then tried reading to take my mind of school, but was still reading at 5.30!! Hope I have a better night tonight!! Quote
Guest Sycamore Posted September 1, 2004 Posted September 1, 2004 I am beginning to have the back to school dreams. Where I can't teach, I haven't prepared my room, the kids are out of control etc etc. I get them every year! I was in for the morning and that was tiring enough. Moving the furniture around and doing displays. It only seems five mins since I took them down! Sleep well everyone. x Quote
Guest Posted September 1, 2004 Posted September 1, 2004 Sycamore, I'm so glad it's not just me that has those dreams - yours sound identical to mine! Also totally exhausted just 1 inset day in. Alan (hubby) says if we didn't have such a long holiday we wouldnt be out of practise & wouldn't get tired. I'd rather have the holiday & bear with being a bit worn out!! Dianne Quote
Beau Posted September 1, 2004 Posted September 1, 2004 If I'm worried about anything I have the most bizarre dreams. I can wake up feeling exhausted because of them. I went through mine a couple of weeks back. It certainly is nice to know that others have the same thing. Quote
Guest Posted September 1, 2004 Posted September 1, 2004 As an NQT starting next Monday, I have started having strange dreams, and am feeling a bit nervous about being 'a real teacher', who is supposed to know what she is doing!!!!!!! Chris Quote
Beau Posted September 1, 2004 Posted September 1, 2004 Welcome to our world!! The important ones are the children and they don't know you're new. Most of them will be feeling much more nervous than you. And just remember that the parents are just people too. Good luck! Quote
Rea Posted September 2, 2004 Posted September 2, 2004 Will try to remember that Carol And hello and good luck to Chris Quote
Guest Posted September 2, 2004 Posted September 2, 2004 Hello all, GGGGGGGGGrrrrrrrrrrr not been able to sleep much .....my comp crashed a couple of nights ago! Felt so down hearted because i hadn't saved my plans onto disk......(bit of a technophobe really).............I feel like I wasted soo much time over bank holiday so over the past couple of nights I have been dreaming about planning! I have only been a teacher for a few days and already I'm ripping my hair out!! must go...... need chocolate need coffee need to plan need some sleep back in a day or two with a smile...... <<<like this I hope! Hope everyone has a good first week! Dougal x And Good luck Chris! Quote
Rea Posted September 2, 2004 Posted September 2, 2004 Back tomorrow, just with the new children. Some of you might remember a few months ago that my youngest son had a bit of an upset concerning a lad at his prospective secondary school. This morning he has gone out of the house without a backward glance and I am so happy, chuffed, thrilled, relieved, not to say scared, apprehensive, worried, anxious...more grey hairs! Hope everyone else is coping with all things new. Quote
Susan Posted September 2, 2004 Posted September 2, 2004 Thats wonderful Rea, I hope tomorrow and all the days after will be the same. My son goes back tomorrow and is already anticipating his sleepless night. Its not just the teachers, you know, that feel the strain! But I certainly dont remember feeling like that as a child, its so sad! Dianne, I'm not sure your husbands theory is correct, having workrd in days when pressure was no where near so great (getting rather long in tooth here, you see!), its the knowledge of all that pressure and how to cope, adrenalin setting in for the fight that keeps us awake! Am I destined never to sleep again, wondering if the morning will awake me with the call to work? I hope not!! ( I want to work and sleep! ) Quote
Susan Posted September 2, 2004 Posted September 2, 2004 Meant to say also thats annoying, Dougal? Have you lost everything or can you recover it? Good luck with the rest of the week. Quote
hali Posted September 2, 2004 Posted September 2, 2004 My hubby is exactly the same dianne....i dont go back till monday but when he came in from work yesturday paperwork everywhere and he couldnt get on computer.............. Quote
Beau Posted September 2, 2004 Posted September 2, 2004 Rea, Great to hear about your son. Let's hope that he doesn't have anymore problems of that sort. Dougal, Sorry about your computer. Ours crashed last year and stupidly I hadn't backed anything up. Luckily my husband could take the hard drive into work and some of his ICT guys managed to retrieve everything. When I thought I had lost everything I had worked so hard on I just cried though! Quote
hali Posted September 2, 2004 Posted September 2, 2004 Ours did the same Beau and i did cry till hubby told me he had backed my work up...didnt tell me for a few days though Needless to say i do try to keep things backed up now.. Quote
Helen Posted September 2, 2004 Posted September 2, 2004 That's a relief......I always felt I was being really immature not being able to sleep the night before a new term starts. Now I feel normal (shut up, Steve) Quote
Guest Posted September 2, 2004 Posted September 2, 2004 You can almost be 100% certain I will not sleep well the day before I start back. I've been like that in the 20 years I've been at school as a kid or teacher! It's 20 years since I started reception (actually I was a January start, but that's just being pedantic!) Quote
Guest Posted September 2, 2004 Posted September 2, 2004 I don't go back until Monday but I know I won't sleep on Sunday night! I will be lying in bed thinking of all the things I haven't done and should have! I dreamt the other night that my husband and I bought a hotel!!! We didn't have any food to give the guests so I fed them on egg and chips and tinned sponge puddings!!!! I really should get my dreams anylised! Linda Quote
Rea Posted September 2, 2004 Posted September 2, 2004 Oooo, lovely. Two weeks full board please. (I know I've just had 6 weeks off work but I had to do my own cooking) (Does opening packets and tins count???) Quote
Sue R Posted September 3, 2004 Posted September 3, 2004 Well, I've worked all summer, but the term proper starts on Monday, when the funded children come back and I'm having those same dreams, so we're ALL NORMAL, STEVE and all other parties!!! Good luck all Sue Quote
Rea Posted September 3, 2004 Posted September 3, 2004 First day back today. Met new children and their families, nice lot, only appears to one child at present who may cause my total break down I'd seriously forgotten what it's like. I am pooped! Still, rather good to be back though. (am I mad??) Quote
Guest Tracey F Posted September 6, 2004 Posted September 6, 2004 knackered doesn't cover it have been back since last wednesday, but my Reception children only started today - I think its the effort of being nice to them all the time that does it in the early days Anyway I have been accepted onto a TIPD study visit to NEW ZEALAND at half term, so the countdown to that is keeping me going! Quote
Susan Posted September 6, 2004 Posted September 6, 2004 That sounds really exciting, Tracey but can you tell us more about it, please!? Quote
Guest Tracey F Posted September 6, 2004 Posted September 6, 2004 What did you want to know?? Well I applied along with our Y6 teacher in the summer term. Anyway heard just before we broke for summer that we were accepted- to look at literacy in the primary school - but didn't know where we would be going... Then got a letter about a week into the summer holidays to say that it was New Zealand! We have the last 2 days before half term off for travelling and only spend a week there so we have decided that we are not going to have time to sleep while we are there because there is soooooooo much we want to see!!! It's somewhere I have always wanted to go and never thought I would get the chance I keep telling my husband that I am going to do Shirley Valentine and go off with one of the Kiwis I am away for our wedding anniversary too.... he's a tiny weeeny bit jealous !! Quote
Susan Posted September 6, 2004 Posted September 6, 2004 Lucky, lucky you! I dont know what TIPD stands for? We had a NZ trained teacher in our school recently and she was superb, particulary with literacy! So I am sure you will see and learn lots, dont forget to let us know! Quote
Guest Tracey F Posted September 6, 2004 Posted September 6, 2004 Teachers International Professional Development Quote
Rea Posted September 6, 2004 Posted September 6, 2004 That sounds like a great experience...I wonder, is there a Playleaders International Professional Development?? May need to start one if thats where you get to go. Quote
Guest Tracey F Posted September 6, 2004 Posted September 6, 2004 Sounds like a good plan to me Rea Quote
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