Had my first really stressful day today and wasn't even teaching!
Firstly, I learned from my tutor at Uni that my mentor at my school left the mentor meeting at Uni after only five minutes in tears. I told my tutor that my mentor had been a bit stressed and had cried in front of me the other week. My tutor said she's going to come in to school on Friday to investigate and have a meeting with my mentor and my PLC.
My mentor seemed ok today but didn't tell me why she left in tears at the Uni meeting so I didn't probe her. She's just an odd woman, I'm finding it hard to establish a relationship with her; sometimes we have brief conversations about things other than school stuff but most of the time she just comes in the staff room makes a cup of coffee and walks back out to her class room. It's not the end of the world, just wish she was a bit friendlier at times.
Then, I tried once again to get my finger print ID which I've been chasing down for weeks; I rang the guy who sorts it 7 times at different points of the day and he didn't answer at any of those times. I know he was in as well as another member of staff saw him. I couldn't tell my PLC because he was on a course today and my mentor just tells me to see the guy who does it. I start solo teaching next week so I really need that ID before this week is over to get in the classrooms and get access to photocopying etc. It's just a bloody nightmare trying to get this sorted and believe me I've pestered and pestered.
Got home at 5:30 due to bad traffic and an after school training session. Had a quick dinner then went the library as I have my first lesson to plan for next week. It took me 2 hours and I still haven't a) completed the PowerPoint b) come up with a plenary or c) put my plan into the official performa sheet for the University.
Technology isn't my strong point and I found it so frustrating - I used some TES site resources but couldn't find a way to copy from Word to PowerPoint and I accidentally clicked something that makes every slide the same background but I didn't really want that. Couldn't for the life of me work out how to revert back to different colours for different slides. Small things but irritable after a long day. I gave up in the end and will finish it tomorrow evening.
That's just one plan and it was a struggle trying to come up with ideas as well. I'm still not 100% confident in my lesson, especially with timing, at the moment I reckon it will only take about 30-35 minutes and I have 50 minutes to fill but can't think of what else to do.
Then on top of all of that I got an email from Uni to say we're being sent in SEN two day placements on Monday and Tuesday (wasn't aware) and the one I've been given is in a very inconvenient place to get to and I have to be there for 8:30 so it's going to be a very early wake up and I'm not even sure how I'm going to get there.
Just feel utterly tired and like I have no one to turn to at my school sometimes.