Not really sorted this term yet!

NuttySupplier · #1 (**permalink**) 19-11-2005, 01:42 PM

Box of tissues... for all those snotty noses
Books to read... suitable for each year group, in case I need to fill time
Pair of scissors
Sellotape
Blu-tac
Chocolate Bars... in a bundance (all for me you understand!)
A dozen or so economy pencils... stop the whining/searching quickly
Stickers
Diary
Union Card
Trainers
Biros - black and red
Throaties... for when I've shouted myself hoarse!

Zahra · #2 (**permalink**) 19-11-2005, 02:13 PM

Paracetamol for the inevitable headache after teaching year 9.
Coffee and a mug, in case the school has no provision for coffee etc.
Lunch, I have been stuck in a primary school with nowhere to get lunch from.

GreatGrandDad · #3 (**permalink**) 22-11-2005, 01:45 PM

First and foremost was the Time Sheets!!!

Second was the A to Z to find the school. (MyMultimap on the Internet was good too, as the Agency could usually tell me the postcode, and that was all that was needed. But sometimes they changed where I was going when I had already set out and then the A to Z in the car was needed.)

Third was the digital camera.
I find it to be an invaluable tool.
A quick snap of the school signboard was a reminder of where I had been on each day when I was doing my log at the end of the week, and it gave me the name of the HT. (And that's a great name to be able to 'drop' whilst doing behaviour management.)
Many a time, I have volunteered to clean a whiteboard to help the previous teacher leave quickly. As soon as s/he went, a quick snap gave me a lesson summary. I have a couple of ready lessons in RE, Drama, PSHE, History, Geography, and English from doing that. Not bad for an electronic engineer who offers Maths and Sciences!

But the big use of the camera is in dealing with 'Ben Dover'.
I start every class (even if I have had them before) by making out a seating map.
It is also my record for filling in the register and gets my notes of behaviour put on it, and is subsequently filed in my "Behaviour File".
The camera deals with the first kid who tries giving a false name.
A quick snap and "No problem. The DHT will tell me your name and we'll do the Punishment Paperwork, when I get my time sheet signed" stops that in its tracks.

Fourth was the bag of whiteboard markers, a box of chalk, a quarter ream of lined paper and a quarter ream of plain paper, pencils, crayons, rubbers, a stapler and all sorts of odds and ends. I never spent money on these. We Yorkshiremen are incorrigible scroungers!

I did buy my own toilet roll for the bag. (And I kept some of that in my pocket, too.)

I had a box in the boot of the car with textbooks and display charts that I had scrounged. My lessons on blood circulation were well illustrated, and listened to, because I had had angioplasty and the kids are fascinated by how you see the medical-plumber's probe poking around in the pipework.

In the worst schools I found that the only time some of them would learn anything was if they thought they had got me off the lesson, so I always had some personal photos of where I live in rural SE Asia. It was better that they diverted me and learnt a bit of Geography, or whatever, than leaving the Maths or Science room having learnt nothing.

purple · #4 (**permalink**) 04-12-2005, 03:02 PM

wow u guys take loads of stuff to school.

In my bag I only have a teaching pack that one of my agencies gave to me which is full of lessons plans and time fillers, I add to it if i find anything good in the schools I got to. haven't used it yet though!

Lunch, sometimes there are no shops near by so you have to take some food with you. Bottle of water.

Timesheets, purse, reading books to read while I'm travelling on the train.

Pencil Case full of essential stationary.

Umbrella, tissues, lipsil, paracetamol and tunes.

Oh and a mobile of course.

Footiegirl · #5 (**permalink**) 04-01-2006, 01:36 PM

Not a lot! if I am at a school that I know and has left me planning I take:

my lunch
water
few time filler activities
Short stories
my
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kit for after school
pencil case
painkillers
mobile and purse

If I do not know the school:

as above plus a selection of poetry books,
lever arch folder full of one off lesson
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s,
puzzle books
teachers time saver book
emergency teaching
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s book (a lifesaver, an
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for every day of the year!)

pudsey63 · #6 (**permalink**) 26-01-2006, 04:02 PM

I always take spare contact lenses/ glasses. Ever since a five-year-old landed a direct punch and knocked out a lens minutes before my tutor arrived for a final TP observation. Still, it taught me a valuable lesson or two; if in doubt, duck, and always make sure you can see beyond the end of your nose.

NuttySupplier · #7 (**permalink**) 26-01-2006, 06:03 PM

Oh no! [smilie=hate-lol.gif] Reminds me of today, I sent a kid to the back of the room, they pointed out the naughty table was at the front... but I don't look at the front, always to the back!

Additions to my bag:

Hole punch
Ink cartridges in case of Y6 class
Slide
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or duck
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(don't want to lose my voice again!)

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