You know, social media can be an amazing thing. During this new and terrible coronavirus crisis it has been, in many instances, a terrific force for good, connecting people when circumstances have forced them apart.

But it can also be an utter pig in a poke.

It would be an understatement to say that teachers have got kind of a lot on right now. When your day job involves a classroom full of learners, things get mighty tricky when the classroom is suddenly and unexpectedly closed.

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Taking the living, breathing, messy and exhilarating business of learning and recalibrating it, more or less overnight, for the digital world is no mean feat. Add to that the fact that teachers may not have the technical skills - let alone the right hardware in their homes - to pull this off, and straightaway you have a bulging to-do list. And don’t even get me started on the dodgy wi-fi.

Then there are those vulnerable families, the ones that need us the most but, at this time of greatest need, can find themselves the furthest away. Offering support in childcare hubs, delivering supplies, just phoning to say hello and keeping these connections strong is another vital task right now.

Teachers and school leaders are contending with all this while also being silently terrified for their own families and loved ones, helping those they care about most deal with the changes they are facing.

So, when your average teacher, standing in her kitchen, knackered after another punishing day, scrolls through social media and sees edutwitter banging on about how brilliantly they are coping with things, they ought to be forgiven a wee eye-roll or two.

The thing is, crowing about how well you are managing is just a kid-on. Nobody has a blueprint for dealing with what we are currently facing. There are highs and lows aplenty but anyone who tells you they aren’t eating Wagon Wheels and panicking is a liar.

I don’t want to knock the sharing of practice and if social media provides a space to get some much-deserved recognition for hard work, please crack on.

But if you are scrolling through your phone in your kitchen, feeling woefully inadequate that you just about got through the day, never mind simultaneously hosted five Teams meetings while volunteering in the hub and also re-wallpapering your front room, here’s my message to you: dinnae fash yersel, my friend. You are doing just fine.

Just carry on, because what you are doing is the same as every teacher and school leader across the nation: the very best you possibly can.

And no one can ask for more than that.

Susan Ward is depute headteacher at Kingsland Primary School in Peebles, in the Scottish Borders. She tweets @susanward30