So to all of you who have spent today in the classroom, thank you! I’m really missing supply teaching [and the pay!] so spent the afternoon in Leicester signing up with an agency in the hopes that they will be able to find me some supply work. Watch this space.
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I had no idea! I have some very hard working colleagues in the school who deserve a salute today, in that case.
ReplyDeleteI don't know how Leicestershire works but have you looked at the county school personnel provider as a source of supply work? In our region it is a company called EPM which do all the payroll, personnel issues, contracts, advertising and advice, so I am sure that there must be something similar in your area - the FH registered with EPM when we moved here, as he was looking for supply work back then [not now!] and they found him quite a few jobs.
I do hope you get some work from the new agency.
xxx
For the last 2 years, it has been up to schools to source their own supply staff in Leicestershire. I have personal connections with a few schools, but now am getting back onto the books of the agency I briefly worked for 10 years ago. I'll le tyou know what happens!
DeleteFingers crossed you find some supply work through the agency. I have uni friends who couldn't get a permanent post , or enough supply work to complete their NQT year. Some have had to change career before their teaching career even began properly, which I find really sad.
ReplyDeleteI am so sad when I hear about young teachers unable to complete their NQT years, that seems so wrong. Someone told me this week that she had 5 friends who trained as teachers two years ago and only 1 of them has managed to get her NQT and a job!
DeleteBut as the agency said today, there are fewer opportunities for supply work nowadays - a; because budget cuts means teachers are not being sent out of school on courses any more and b; it is cheaper for schools to provide cover using their Teaching Assistants.
All quite sad, and not a little frustrating.
Hoping you'll be sent to wonderful schools with whom you will form lasting relationships, and thus be able eventually to bypass the middle market! In the short term, hoping that you'll make pots of money for you and the agency, and enjoy every minute standing up for teachers!
ReplyDeleteI continue to feel very blessed that I found an NQT position in a lovely school, and that 5 weeks in I am still enjoying it! Well done teachers, we are great.
ReplyDeletehere's hoping you get some supply work.
ReplyDeleteTeachers are very under appreciated if you ask me.
Gill
Hope you get something suitable soon x
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