#73

Actually, she did primary so it wouldn’t be that course at all would it.

#74

DB’d control the class like this:

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#75

yeah i think my ex ended up taking some MH time off as well a couple of years ago, its pretty hardcore. her first school was in longsight so obvs her kids were all from deprived backgrounds, a lot of them had only just come to the UK, quite often from places like somalia, so struggling with the language and cultural barriers as well. SEN is another challenge altogether. good luck with it if you do decide to do it, like ant said if you want to ask anything about it let me know. dunno how much help id be but i lived with her for like 5 years or something so i guess some of it rubs off :smiley:

#76

I like that you’re making this a thing

#77

It’s also hard work being the partner of a primary school teacher innit

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#78

I thought you didn’t get ‘just’ PE teachers? In our school all the games teachers had to have a ‘proper’ subject they taught too. One of the games teachers I totally couldn’t stand (on account of me being a games hater and him taking a dim view) was a fucking great English teacher.

#79

That sounds like complete fucking bollocks to me, friend. We had a shit tonne of PE teachers who were just PE teachers.

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#80

Maybe it’s on account of how posh your corduroy trouser school was, friend? :wink:

In rough, tough Inner London there probably wasn’t the resource for dedicated sports teachers.

#81

Of the three PE teachers at ours, one would occasionally cover Geography and another who would occasionally cover Maths, but PE was their main subject like.

#82

Rumour that Miss Weller never shouted cos she only had one lung

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#83

I’ll be honest with you Theo I think rough as fuck comps sort of specialise in having weird dedicated PE teachers awkwardly hanging around in shorts all year

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#84

Still not convinced by this recent line of patter

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#85

WELL!

I do not recall seeing that back in the day (on DiS I mean)

Doubly confusing for me due to my having trouble remembering if ‘Year 12’ was 5th year or 6th form…

#86

Mine had 6

#87

DinoBabe!

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#88

Bang on mate, it’s so they can get to the fights quick enough to break them up before Doug Robson puts a scaffolding pole through can’t-remember-what-his-name-was’s lesson window again

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#90

:fearful:

#91

Yeah, sorry @anon5266188 actually more inclined to think it’s just that PE wasn’t taken very seriously back in the 80s. One period of PE mandatory and then two hours of games that was basically just running all the kids down to the playing field off Tufnell Park to do football, rugby British Bulldog or running. With the occasional ‘cross country running’ over Hampstead Heath.

I’m guessing it was just too expensive to do it any other way.

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#92

Love it when they’re roped in to cover a real subject too and they just sit there

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#93

We had a dedicated pool of supply teachers (possibly supplied by ILEA or something). One of ours was Canadian, not bad, not good, always easier in supply lessons anyway.

But he actually showed up in Tim Burton’s Batman, the guy that Joker burns to a crisp with his hand buzzer thing when he takes over the mob.