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Sabbatical 6
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Sabbatical 6

It’s Issue 6 - I’ve officially had as long off work as a whole Summer Holiday - and there’s still another Summer Holiday’s worth of Sabbatical time left to go…yet will this ‘zine/blog even have five readers let alone 6?

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Sabbatical 1
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Sabbatical 1

Last week, as the summer came to end and the first week of my self-imposed unemployment loomed, I began to get nervous about what happens next. It occurred to me that it might be fun to document the journey. At first I saw a ‘zine in my mind’s eye: I would call it SABBATICAL and I would work on it every week. I would write a bit about what I did and what I was feeling, and then at the end of however long I’m not working for, I’d put it all together and put it out. I liked the idea, but then I asked myself why a ‘zine when I have this blog already, gathering dust?…

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Ties
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Ties

Being as this week’s heatwave is seeing schools across the country loosening restrictive uniform policy for both staff and students, and I’m finally leaving my current school, I figured it was time to come clean with this article I wrote for The Guardian’s Secret Teacher column in 2016…

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