Delighted to oblige, bbm!
So far this holiday, I have:
Cleaned my classroom from top to bottom and repainted scuffs on the walls, door, skirting boards etc
Washed and ironed curtains to our cloakroom area
Taken covers off old books and shredded them
Sorted through Wet Play games – repaired/ thrown out stuff
Met with colleague (who's never taught Yr 6 before) re planning for next term
Collected new exercise books and written names on
Printed, laminated and folded Spellbinders (a
Look, Cover, Write, Check method for practising spellings)
New tray labels printed, laminated and stuck on trays
Sorted through transfer information – looking through reports, tracking data, test papers from last term, IEPs etc – to work out ability groups for Maths and Literacy for new term
Taken delivery of new furniture and transferred to hall; removed the cardboard coverings
Moved all my books, files, resources from a pokey little cupboard outside my classroom to one recently vacated
Jobs still ahead of me:
Maths and Literacy medium-term planning, getting my head around the new frameworks (not a quick job at all!), plus short term plans for the first couple of units
Check through History planning and make any alterations + organise a possible trip to the British Museum (should involve a recce next week some time)
Sort Maths resources in classroom, which have become muddled up
Put up displays for the new term – one on Greeks, possibly one on our Science topic or a Writing Wall, one on multiple intelligences, plus prepare display work linked to feelings/emotions and our revised behaviour policy
Decide upon guided reading books for the new term, reading any ones which are new to me, and preparing chapter bookmarks, containing reading targets and key questions for discussion during sessions
Laminate name cards for using on our class ‘jobs for the day’ board
Take delivery of much-needed stock order (who knows when it will arrrive?!) and distribute to classrooms
Prepare timetables, rotas etc for use of the hall, library, ICT Suite, music room, playground duties, assembly responsibilities
Put up new information display in staffroom containing above info + key dates for the years, minutes of meetings etc
Meet with the HT to discuss our School Improvement Plan, Ofsted self evaluation form and INSET for first day back in September
Only the last four are really in my management capacity. I imagine other teachers have very similar tasks to do, although this obviously varies from school to school and dependant on the age group taught. I know some of my KS1 colleagues spend a lot of time making things and trawling car-boot sales for toys in good condition. I've probably missed something off my -to do' list! MJ?
