can you imagine working in a school with (gasp) no staff room???

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Niece starts at a flash new city academy next week. All lessons and school work on laptops and there is no staff room. The horror! If this is the future of education I'll never be able to go back to teaching (can only just manage a link on mumsnet and the thought of teaching all day without having a laugh with your mates in the staff room is unbearable)

How hideous! Perhaps the staff just go to the pub?

We eat in our classrooms, we have a staff room but tend to eat on the move as we only have 1/2 hour to get ready for the afternoon and eat etc

our staffroom is tiny tiny tiny - hardly is used at all. Tehre are over 70 staff at at most it can seat 20 all squeezed in. And only 1 male staff loo and 1 female staff loo

that is hideous

Where do they do briefing, etc?

Our staffroom is the centre of the school universe - we have a lovely lady who does cups of tea just the way we like them for 20p. Can't imagine life without it.

Do you think that it is a way of preventing staff from gossiping, closing ranks etc?????

Where do people go for staff meetings. Staffrooms are workrooms in many schools rather than relaxation. Our one has PC terminals in.

In a lot of secondary school people tend to socialise in departments rather than the main staff room.

I did teaching prac ina couple of small primary's that didn't have staff rooms. In one the staff had a cuppa in the kitchen and int he other they used the head's office

We use the hall for staff meetings, 50 staff (ish) and staff room only seats 15-20 tops

I used to use our staff room loads. However, in the last few years, I have worked right through lunch and eat on the move. Means that there is a little less to take home.

where do you go if you're not teaching & someone is in 'your' room? our staff room is meeting place, tea & coffee place, hang out, dump your stuff, have a cry etc. what other room could possibly provide all those services?

We havne't got one as such - can't afford the space for them, so we're told! We have a work room, in which every lecturer has a desk but students have free access to it, so they wander in and out freely. I do miss having one though!

Never had time to go to the staffroom at break.

Ate my lunch and drank my coffee with the lab techs, doing what we forbade the pupils to do - eating in the lab

There should be one though of course.

We have a staffroom for relaxation (and briefing), and a staff work room for working in.

Two schools had to be shut here today.
The kids went back to school yesterday but the teachers went in on Monday. 27 teachers from the one secondary school have come down with a gastric bug and the school (and the other-a primary) are shut til Monday now.

Sounds like a case of dodgy sandwichs on staff training day in the staff room to me!

Sod briefing, where do they gossip, moan, bitch, drink tea, do the crossword...? All essential parts of teachers' lives!

Ermmm, it is a legal requirement that somewhere is provided for staff to have statutory rest breaks away from their desks, do they not realise?
(says she currently eating lunch at her desk)

same city academy as you've read about mummytojess. She finishes school at 2.30 but has no outdoor time other than games lessons and only a 30 min lunch break all day

The ONLY thing I miss about teaching in lunch time in the staff room. All the schools I worked at had a really good team atmosphere that I think was linked to a fun staff room

Goodness me - where would I go for a gripe

Godness me - where would I go for a gripe

oops !

it's catching Whizz

islandofsodor - not strictly true - there has to be a 'suitable & sufficient facilities' for workers to take rest & meal breaks, work ares can be counted as rest areas/ eating facilities provided they are adequately clean

our staffroom is not really used enough, I make a real effort to go in as I think it is important but not many people do.