Why Are You A Supply Teacher?

[Susi Q]

Hi Everyone,

Work a bit thin on the ground this term so I decided after yet another day getting dressed and ready and no phone call, I would join some other agencies.
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You would think they would be sympathetic to the fact that perhaps being a supply teacher was not what you originally wanted to do, but circumstances mean this is what you are doing!
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I was asked by a
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of agencies why I was a supply teacher and what was the matter that I hadn't got a job?
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Another asked what the feedback had been when I had gone for a job. Aaaargh!
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I eventually signed up with the two agencies who had sounded the nicest on the phone and hadn't
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e me feel like a complete loser because I was on supply. What did the mean agencies think I was phoning them for? To tell them I had a job and say "nur nur nuh nur nur?"
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[NuttySupplier]

I think you've done well deciding not to go with them! Never been with an agency myself, but I believe it's just like when you work with a school - relationships go a long way to deciding how much work you get... get off on the wrong foot in a school and you never return!

Good luck with your new ones, I hope they find you loads of work!!

[danfur]

Susi that's awful, I live up near you so if you want to pm me I'll let you know the agencies I was with as they were really nice. Hopefully that can help!!!!!!

[Susi Q]

Dear Danfur,

Many thanks for the offer.
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I ended up signing with two more agencies after sifting through all the adverts in the Chronicle. So far they are still setting me up and getting references and stuff. I phoned another five before picking those two to sign up with. One agency promised to phone back four times and never did.
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I have some work for tomorrow so maybe things are picking up.
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[NuttySupplier]

Hope tomorrow goes well...
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you get a good class and the school ask you back!

[Susi Q]

Many thanks!
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It is a school I have been to a few times before and did a long term supply in a few years ago. I usually have a nice time there.
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Loving the nice thoughts winging my way from this website. It is nice knowing you are not on your own.
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[Mister]

Originally Posted by Susi Q
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What did the mean agencies think I was phoning them for? To tell them I had a job and say "nur nur nuh nur nur?"
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Hi Susi,

Your post really m a d e me l a u g h, thanks for that. You seem to have that sense of humour we supply teachers need.

Won't post too much yet until I've had proof my replies are getting to the board. I think my introductory post got lost somewhere in the technology. Yes, you (& your readers) guessed, I'm a newbie here!

Right, better s t a r t finding my way around! Including finding how to stop the smilies creeping in unasked & reducing my posts to nonsense!

[NuttySupplier]

Hi Joe! Sorry your first post got lost in the ether! Welcome to the board, I look forward to reading more now you can see your posts make it!
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But not now, too late, off to bed!!!!

[Susi Q]

Dear Nutty,

I got asked back for a fortnight to the nice school and things seem to have picked up a lot now.
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Looks like the round of coughs and colds has started in earnest and the jobs are coming thick and fast.
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I spoke to a few supply teachers and they said things had been quiet around half term. Things are looking nice and Christmassy with the snow where I am.
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How are your little singers?
Mister, If you haven't got a sense of humour doing supply you are sunk! Here is a joke a year five kid told me. What do you call a donkey with three legs? A WONKY.
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I
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ed for ages.........Am I as daft as the kids?
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[NuttySupplier]

I just
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ed so hard at that joke Suzi, and told OH, and he came out with the punchline like I was some half-wit!! I'm glad I know someone else enjoyed it as much as me!