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Yeah, well, that's what she when you kids are toddlers like it kind of feels like a step up to go back to students that are actually kind of independent and toilet-trained. So everyone happy. Yeah. No and I do miss my little my own little darling Jabs when I go back to you to work, but That's that's I mean all the fun has to come to an end. You know, when you're heading into holidays. We're teachers are so lucky and I was so appreciative of getting the amount of holidays. I did get in having that time to spend with my family. So I didn't ever actually I don't think I ever suffered the post holiday Blues. What about you? I don't think so. I mean, I I'm like to be organized so my holidays I would try and give myself some time, but I would also be quite excited. All Keen to start getting things together organizing it's doing a bit of planning, but that was my own choice. I didn't ever feel the pressure to do it. Well, actually with that being said if you didn't do it though, you'd kind of be on the back foot. So yeah, maybe there is a little bit. I don't know which way you look at it, but I would be quite Keen to get back if I was organized ready to go. Generally I'd plan the first couple of weeks after that first couple of weeks. They when you're planning runs out your own no, no, Yes, I kind of had a delay you had a delayed response to it couple of weeks in when you let go the planning's all done. You know, I will 300 I've got to do it all but yeah II would be quite Keen to go back particularly. I think after the Christmas holidays. Yeah, and you sort of have with getting things set up. I just been really Keen to get into my classroom. Yeah, that's always fun. Get it set up our face, but then you'd have like, you know the student free days. Fulfilled with PD is very like they go. So you have an hour in your classroom from you know, one tool to oh, sorry the last PD ran half an hour over and we're going to have to start the next 150. You got 15 minutes and your classroom just be like, yeah you just going to get in there at that point like Haiti is you know, it has its place very important, but it can be super dry at the beginning of the school year when your mind is just on decorating your classroom theme padding and getting sort of things ready or sort of Connecting with your team to yeah, if there's new people yeah, I'm the team and researching a students and finding out connecting with other teachers about who you're getting. Yeah. Yeah, just finding out what's going on. Yeah. I do know some people though can get a bit of the post holiday Blues where it can be maybe if they feel like they didn't have enough time to do the things they wanted to do or if they didn't get to have a break because they maybe were working a lot over the holidays and we get a lot of that feedback. We do not teach other where people saying You know, it's the holidays and I'm working all the time. So I suppose it could potentially be if you're not getting that break for yourself. Yep. Yeah, when you go back it can feel like you haven't had a rest. Yes yet exactly or you know, sometimes teachers get the I just got through flu and they spend the first couple of weeks of the big holidays sick that happens all the time. Yeah. So then it feels like a waste as well or if you if it's a short holiday like sometimes the Easter break. Only ten days long and you spent the whole time getting a call. So it's getting your kids teeth checked getting haircuts all that boring stuff. You feel like you haven't even had a holiday. So we get it that it can feel like a massive burden that first week just getting yourself back into the head space to be back in your classroom. And I think this middle of the Year holidays can be quite confronting because you think I've just gotten through half the year and I've got that to do again before I get to the end of the year. So yes, you've cleared the first letter. Set of report cards and you are heading into a new kind of fresh slate because sometimes we even change subjects will change has subjects me. I threw the we did that in history and first semester geography in the second semester. So yes, it was different. Yeah for me though. Tim through was my favorite. Oh is that why is that because you know report cards you knew the class you knew your students so you could kind of just get into thing. Yeah, and you could you'd set up the Asians they knew what to expect from you you knew what to expect from them. I just thought Tim 3 was like just let's go. Yeah, I'm convinced you had me at no report card. Yeah need no more explanations. Thought it was the it was a quite a productive term. Mmm. I think so too and it's at my school. We had a lot of events in term 3 like we had our big fate there was so much going on. That was fun. Yeah broke the term up so I found that really enjoyable as well. Yes, so that maybe that's a tip like focus on the amazing things that are happening within your school. Look forward to things plan events with your kids make a calendar have something to look forward to each week. That's school-based. That is enjoyable. Yeah. Well, maybe even you could like run a little inquiry task or something in your class that they work on on Friday afternoons or something. So then you cause you know them, you know, they're their capabilities they know what to expect from you so you can do things that are a bit more. Yeah, you know, they take control. Yeah. Too impulsive way of looking at it. Your kids are a lot more established in their routine. So why not take it, you know a step further and see how far you can push it? Yeah. We got all too fast. Yes. No that would take salt and pepper. So, can you please sing it? Okay, and some other tips that we've got for you all straight from a Blog from our lovely content creator Ali tricking your brain into the holiday field. By doing some of those things that you would love to do on holidays into the term like just reading a book just purely chosen for pleasure and find time just read a novel. What's another thing that we do in holiday is that you could do during the term just to make yourself feel like holiday mode. What do you know? I find in the holidays. I used to like exercise more or go out for a walk or something cuz I felt that I had the time and it was always so nice had sort of come back and me, you know feel bit more energetic. Yes. So it could be trying to fit that in. Yeah, that's during the term and we used to out mice one of my school's we get together once a week and go for a walk after school like a couple of the teachers. Yeah, and so we take our stuff with us go for a walk after school and you just sort of felt a little bit more energized and I found you know what I ate healthier when I got home. Oh really because you had all that hard work. You don't want to mess it up. But also you kind of felt like eating healthy as opposed to getting home and having like a big bowl of like Sighing yeah copy pasta is Delicious By the way, but I mean, you know, I would I would want something lighter as you kind of that can be expected. Yeah, I like that. What about creating a little photo album of your holiday snaps just to bring back some of those amazing feelings. I don't know if that would work for me. I think I just get kind of jealous that I was wishing. I was back there, but I know there's lots of these great websites like Snapfish and stuff. Yeah load your images to and make a digital. Yeah, I'm not sure. I live in exciting enough life. Like if I think about my holiday send me pictures of food. Yeah some like trashy TV your beautiful boy. Oh, yes, but this was generally before Oh when we get back when we were teaching. We'll talk when I had time. Yeah, that's true. Actually, I didn't really probably have that much to do you can even do a digital album. Like you could do it Facebook album up just so you can even lock it to private so you can just reflect on it. Yes. When you're feeling really dance with the days because you don't want to get those it's really really annoying when you get Facebook memories and you're not on holidays at this year and the next year like that the terms are a week out. Yeah, and you're getting all these memories. I was on a cruise this time last year and I'm thinking oh, it's the last week of school. We've got swimming we've got, you know cleaning. I've got so much to do before I can get I love the last week of school to do you maybe I was a bit mmmm bit strange. I loved it. I just think he's got a really positive mindset, but there was a fun time you could like let go be could loosen. Of a bit, you know, yeah. Well, once you report reporting periods close. Yeah, there's nothing more you can do and how much the kids love scrubbing tote trays. Yeah for some rest. That's the funnest thing for some reason. I found so many things for them to clean. Yes would be like, oh you want to Yap all the books out and wipe down the shelves they be like, yes, please if you get one less thing for me to do. Yeah and also his it was um, it's summer in Queensland in December is quite brutal. My little preps and grade ones would love going outside. They'd always come in drenched. Yeah, but they would call them down. Yeah, and they have cleaned all the debts. Yes. I love it very much. Yeah. Yeah, so just um, yeah do some things that will make you remind yourself of the holidays, but also think about what you can do during the week to make yourself happy look after yourself like you were saying Fitness. Yeah of them all being. Yeah. No, I think you know and as I like what you're saying that's find the positives in the term. Mmm. Yep, definitely. So maybe we could make like a little list a little online. Little online lie. So I mean he's awfully I do. Oh gosh, you know, I didn't open that diary in heaven. I've seen in there. I've got my list I've seen in there and it is it's into it. There's a lot of less but I like it was I'm not saying I don't know. I'm just saying I haven't moved into the digital space with my list making me neither. I like keeping everything on paper because I get a satisfaction. Yes. Yeah Crossing off. It's the best. You know, what I've kind of put really ridiculous things on my list just across them off. Oh, yeah, I like But even if I'm doing one for home, it's like put washing on take washing out hang washing up bring washing in fold washing five things to cross off, but it's just washing. I love doing that because then I can show my husband. Look at everything I did today. Look how much I did 20 Co busy and some of them are really obscure like clean to the crumbs out of the toaster. I really really Punchy Layla wash hair probably would have done that anyway, but it's on there and I'm gonna Machole is shower. Important to keep a list. Okay. So yeah definitely joining we're going to make a loop, but we can now join into a conversation on Instagram this time. I'm going to put a picture up a holiday-themed picture. Hey, and you guys are going to tell me what's your best way to beat the whole post holiday Blues? Yep. Good idea. Let's do it. Enjoy your week, and I hope you have a great first week back at school. Yeah. Be fun, and the kids will be so Keen to see you. Imagine those imagine on Sunday night. I hope everybody's just, you know, imagining their beautiful little faces and all the stories. You're going to hear. Yeah, and you get to stand there with a big smile on your face listening to all of this and then and then and then and then I need to do a school holiday recounts I hang on. Yeah really good ideas. Let us save it and do a recount writing piece. So you spare yourself the stories. All right. Have a great week guys. Bye. Thanks for joining us for another episode of The Buzz bite each data. We look forward to bringing you. Next week's dose of teacher inspo until then. Just remember you've got this.
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