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Diary of an NQT: Some quick homework tasks

With so much marking and other work on her plate, our NQT diarist sought out some quick homework tasks to ease her workload...

January has been extremely busy and I didn’t realise just how much I’d have to juggle at the beginning of this term.

I had just managed to get myself into a routine with marking, planning and homework, but since the arrival and climax of mock season, things have gone awry.

I’ve had moments when I’ve felt so disorganised it’s been difficult to rationalise and prioritise. However, the mock marking has recently finished and I am finally beginning getting on top of things again.

Most of my energy and time has been occupied with a quick turnaround of inputting data and written feedback. Because of this, certain things in my everyday teaching have fallen onto the back-burner. One of these things was homework. It wasn’t intentional, but three weeks into the term I suddenly realised that I had set no homework since being back!

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