I’ve got to admit it - I really like doing supply work.  It’s such a rich learning experience every day - for me and the students.  I’ve been doing supply for about 7 weeks now, deliberately sticking to day-to-day cover type work rather than my original discipline of geography.  I’ve re-learned much of the ks3 biology that had completely vanished from my brain.  After a while I got the hang of simultaneous equations again. In a previous life I would have hated teaching drama but now I love it. I even know what a fronted adverbial is. Staff absence is really high at the moment and many schools are struggling to find good staff to cover all the teachers not in.  I read recently that half of all teachers had COVID last term which is a mad statistic. Students need to have the best teachers in front of them if they are going to catch up on lost learning. Having good quality supply teachers is good for the students, good for the school and good for the teachers the st...