I don't think anyone goes into teaching for the money, but new teachers are well looked after these days with training bursaries and golden hellos. This is all well and good but it doesn't do you any favours to go on about such things as it will not sit well with more experienced teachers. If you do you risk hearing about how thing didn't used to be this way and how new teachers have never had it so good, and why don't you buy us all more biscuits?

Most people like the occasional snack and teachers are no exception. There is a contrast between what male and female teachers eat though. Male teachers go for sugary based snacks: cakes, biscuits and five sugars in tea/coffee. Female teachers are usually more restrained and will eat ryvita or lettuce.

There isn't much opportunity for gluttony in a school; there isn't enough time to eat a cake without being interupted by some little dear handing in homework late or complaining about so-on-so who pushed such-and-such into a bush/wall/off the edge of a cliff. However meetings are usually well catered, especially NQT lunctime based training sessions. Here is where young maths teachers should take care to not walk back into the maths office afterwards with chocolate smeared around their mouths, else they will receive hacky looks from older teachers eating yucky fruit.