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10 Ways You Know You’re a Teacher on Summer Holidays

Most UK teachers will have broken up from school by the end of the week – woohoo! In celebration of your well-earned time off, we’ve put together a list of 10 different ways that you know you’re a teacher on summer holidays.

Will you agree with our list? Read on to find out…

You know you’re a teacher on summer holidays when:

1) You have to dress incognito, Clark Kent-style just in case you’re spotted by pupils.

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2) The urge to tuck in chairs when at restaurants and cafes is strong.

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3) You no longer care what day of the week it is!

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4) Switching off isn’t easy. You can hardly sleep at night because you find yourself thinking about classes, lessons, school corridors – you name it.

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5) Yet despite the lack of sleep, it still takes a good couple of weeks for you to convince your body clock not to wake you up at 6am…

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6) You’re reminded by anyone and everyone just how lucky you are to have such long holidays. Have they tried being a teacher?!

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7) You secretly enjoy making your non-teacher friends jealous with your weekday holiday pictures.

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8) Your teacher friends understand that in between the summer photos, you’re actually preparing and planning for the new school year.

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9) Summer sales are hard to resist. So. Much. Stationery.

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10) Aww we know you miss teaching really :p

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So did we miss anything? Let us know via Twitter!

The Boomerang Team.