Summer is here (for the Northern Hemisphere at least).
In case you hadn’t realised it yet, this is the biggest reason to be a teacher 😉
Try these ideas for your teacher summer holidays – suggested by teachers I am connected with.
Some of them are crazy, some silly, some indulgent ..
.. and some highly inadvisable!
- Go to the toilet .. just for fun (because you can)
- Wake up with a classroom to do list item in your head .. and then laugh at it
- Do a drive by of your school .. (and get seen ‘in your civvies’ by students who live nearby)
- Break as many school rules as you can in one day
- Experiment with a gin for breakfast
- Eat healthy food that takes most of the day to make
- Take your phone OFF silent for a whole month
- Go through at least one day wearing only your pyjamas
- Have a duvet day in front of your favourite box set
- Refuse to do your homework .. repeatedly
- Wear a shocking outfit and hang around in an area where your kids will definitely see you
- Go swimming and practise your star float
- Seek the sun like a caveman who hasn’t seen it for months
- Sit in your garden .. even though it’s raining
- Plant something and then watch it grow
- Create an online course and earn some cash to save for early retirement
- Become a regular in your nearest bar, pub or coffee shop for a week
- Watch the sunrise – knowing you can go back to bed again afterwards
- Write something naughty on the board in your classroom
- Meditate .. and increase the peace baby 😉
- Go for daytime walks that end in a nice meal somewhere – followed by a taxi home
- Send a postcard to yourself from a beautiful place
- Kidnap a friends stuffed toy and send photographs of it on holiday
- Adopt an unexpected animal
- Make some lemonade or popsicles and sell them in your street
- Try not to laugh (too loudly) at people who have to wake up and go to work each day
- Try out Great Aunt Eileen’s chocolate cake recipe
- Finally have the time to clean your house – then spend a day wallowing in the clean feeling
- Smile broadly as you finally catch up on the washing pile
- Get arrested for a picketing a business who doesn’t pay their taxes
- Learn something new
- Take a local business by surprise and volunteer your time
- Start a blog
- RELAX!
- Make a coffee without having to smell the milk first
- Enter an eating competition
- Watch daytime TV to see how the other half lives
- Talk to a policeman
- Update your Resume or CV and put it on a job site, to see what calls you get
- Tell your children a lie about buried treasure in your garden and watch them try and dig it up
- Drive somewhere unexpected
- Listen to the birds
- Plant a sunflower seed
- Go to the garden centre
- Have a BBQ or cook out
- Do a juice fast, knowing you won’t lose your job if your hunger gets the better of you
- Have an all-day bath
- Clean your classroom whiteboard – and then draw an enormous penis on it
- Create a playlist of summer music
- Dye your hair a colour which would get you sent home from school
- Pierce your own ears
- Discover what a lay in feels like
- Get so used to getting up late, that September will REALLY hurt
- Watch a late night film .. and then start another at 1am – knowing it doesn’t matter
- Learn a new recipe for your abandoned slow cooker
- Read a great book for pleasure
- Rediscover your hobbies and interests .. and remind yourself that you DO have a life
- Grow an experimental moustache
- Ignore every bell you hear .. the door bell, the phone .. everything.
- Go for the weekday special menu at your favourite restaurant
- Search for something really high – and then climb it
- Tie dye your whitest bed sheets and sleep like a hippy for a week
- Paint something
- Put your teacher alter ego in a box
- Sit on the naughty step, giggling madly
- Buy a big persons trampoline or scooter
- Make a model of your house with breadsticks
- Hide behind an upstairs curtain and beep your car remote every time someone walks past it
- Go to town dressed as a famous person, and be that person who stands like a statue to earn gin money
- Join a protest movement
- Whistle or sing as you walk round the shops
- Smile at each person you see, making them think you’re crazy (or fancy them)
- Cook for your non-teaching partner every day for a week
- Write to your political representatives giving them 99 reasons funding to education needs to be doubled
- Get bored
- Ride a horse
- Set your house alarm off and see who comes to check you are okay
- Pretend to be a mystery shopper
- Get a funky new haircut
- Lose 20 pounds so you can shock your colleagues when you return in September
- Stay properly hydrated – knowing that you won’t need the bladder of an elephant to do it
- Get to know your neighbours
- Hire a gorgeous car
- Paint or decorate a room in your house
- See the sun
- Do some gardening and have time to sit out into the evening
- Book a table at a local restaurant in the name of a celebrity
- Swear uncontrollably, using your favourite swear words with impunity
- Forget all your students names
- Open your kitchen cupboard to find CLEAN cups for tea and coffee!
- Find a cafe where one of your ex-pupils works and have them run rings around you
- Spend a day at Sofa World sampling a range of chairs that nurse your tender glutes and help return your back and neck to a more natural form
- Take a toy cat to a sofa shop – and pretend to be a James Bond villain on the contemporary swivel chairs
- Book an appointment with the doctor, bank, optician, dentist and a kitchen design company – not because you need to, simply because you can
- Forget what day, week and month it is
- Go out on a school night (getting arrested is optional)
- Clean out the bottom of the school bag of … long forgotten to do lists, post it notes, paper clips, a dusty sweet, and a wrinkled apple that you didn’t get time to eat
- Do something creative, whether painting, drawing – or even that dot to dot thing you used to do when you had time when you were younger
- Remove your work email notifications from your mobile phone and all computing devices
- Stick your toes in the sea
- Eat lunch outside
- Enjoy Sundays like the new school year doesn’t exist!
- Wear shorts and sandals every day
- Put away the portable Anadin you carry for stress induced headaches
- Complete the ‘Release your Anger’ colouring book which colleagues bought you last term
- Experiment with breakfast .. and enjoy eating it sitting down, rather than on the run
- Take off your watch and go through a whole week with no idea what the time is
Whatever you do – enjoy your teacher summer holidays!
Have you got anything you would add to this list? .. please add a comment below.