This year workload has rocketed, needless meetings every week, new initiatives. Demands from pupils and parents for teachers to “catch” them up and set work online when they don’t come to school. I am conscientious and do not want to let my pupils down but this is a system that does not care about teachers at all. I sat in a training session recently hearing that pupils only had one chance at education but teachers only have one life. The expectations placed mean that 60 hour working weeks are common. Every new initiative is “just my job” and the things that make a real difference ie planning and feedback are pushed into my time at the weekend and evening. I have no confidence that the Minister will make any difference at all. I dread Transform Ed- lots of changes with little support if it is anything like the last changes to GCSE and A level. Given a year, to come out with the word salad we saw last week was an absolute insult.