Sammy

Sammy by Matthew Mitchell Sammy is an experienced primary school teacher from southern England. Having taken a new job on a temporary contract earlier this year, here she reflects on her new school’s response to the Covid shutdown. "I am an 'old as the hills' variety teacher. I trained in a federation of schools [in the south] and I worked at one school for 18 years. I traded it all in January for a more balanced work-life. Boy, do I wish I hadn’t. "So, I took a Year 6 teaching post in January this year at a one form entry school. The contract was temporary, but the head teacher assured me in an email that it was almost certain to be extended to a permanent position. "The following month, the assistant head told me that a student teacher who would be joining my class a few weeks later had already been promised the Year 6 post for next year. She didn’t blink once as she told me this. So, I contacted the head expressing my concerns over my post for Sep