I am finally done for the term, grades are done, bags are packed and heading to Thailand for a well deserved holiday.  Then I am working 2 summer camps for a month.  Just wanted to say thanks to everyone for their amazing worksheets and PPTs.  I will be using many of them at my summer camps.  This site has made my a life as a teacher so much easier and much more enjoyable.  Have a great summer everyone and see you in the fall...

 

Cheers,

 

Fletsch

Hear from you when you get back!!

Fiona.

Anita

 

Have fun,

mena

Have a nice holiday in Thailand! I �m sure you do deserve it!

Enjoy yourself!

serene

I think the question is directed to Fletsch, but he �s probably gone, having fun somewhere. Since I am working at a summer camp as well, I feel I can give you an answer for me. I work in a private school, and the language courses only take place during the school year. The school is financed exclusively from the payments of students/their parents, so if we don �t work during the summer, the school doesn �t have enough funds. So, I do get my usual holidays like everyone else doing steady jobs in our school -  in August, and during the second half of June and the whole of July we either review all teacher �s documents, sort out the school �s materials and prepare everything for next year �s enrollments, or we do that one part of the time, and teach summer camp the other part of the time. It �s really not that difficult when you love it, and I do, and I �m lucky that my husband teaches sport at the camp, and our kid goes there, too, and it �s the same camp we �ve been going to for 15 years, so I kind of feel like going to a friend �s house to get some work done. Well, responsible and serious work, but still fun, challenging, always interesting... I really look forward to it every year. But you �re right, if we didn �t work - we wouldn �t get paid. Maybe Fletsch is in a different situation, or he works only part-time... How about you? How much holiday time do teachers in your country get?