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)

I have started working in school and am surprised that at lunch time when I go into the staff room there is rarely anyone there. I have assumed they are all out enjoying that last of the sun!

I can vividly remember the staff room at my school. You could smell it from the other end of the building and when you opened the door a waft of smoke made us think the room was on fire

our staffroom is very quiet at lunch, we get 40 minutes but by the time I have dealt with kids it is more like 15 so it is difficult to find time to get to the staffroom at lunch