September is finally here, and with the new term come those all-too-familiar, stomach-churning “back-to-school nerves”.

However, primary teacher Ed Finch headed to Twitter with a remedy for those anxiety-filled teachers.

He tweeted:

And he then followed it up with one of his own, to give a flavour of the sort of disasters he was referring to: 

The idea owning up to teaching “disasters” caught on. Here are some of the best responses.

Teacher mishaps: caught in the act

Some of other teachers’ admissions followed a similar “caught in the act” theme:

Avoid Google

There were many teachers warning against searching for things on Google images in front of the class (we’ve all done it!):

Dress to distress

There were a surprising number of clothing malfunctions:

In honour of Ofsted...

Of course, there were the Ofsted-related admissions...

School trip fun

And the school trip ones were inevitable...

Never work with animals

And school pets made an appearance, too:

No one is perfect

Finch says: “The hashtag #teachlikeachumpion was coined by @MrBoothYr6. It is a funny thread, but hopefully the serious point comes through - a lot of teachers are anxious at the start of term and NQTs particularly so.

“The humour of #TeachLikeAChumpion serves to remind us all that we are, none of us, perfect, and that the most experienced and apparently proficient teacher has made mistakes and, however awful they seemed at the time, we can look back on them and laugh.

“The one big lesson from the mistakes that the teachers shared is always watch the video before the lesson!”

So we have two challenges: one, read the thread without crying with laughter, and two, add your own using the #teachlikeachumpion hashtag.