Tiers on my pillow

[Cismyfatarse]

As requested.

Happy to help with home es queries about English up to AH level.

Yeah wouldbegood

Just tell us.

There is only about 4and 1/2 million of us. Surely they must know how many they are vaccinating

Give us hope not more doom and gloom and you will be locked in your houses with no nursery or schools

For all the people looking for resources education Scotland have produced this page mainly for teachers but you might get some useful links education.gov.scot/improvement/national-e-learning-offer/

Here's the higher and Nat 5 offer

www.e-sgoil.com/ssnocontentsummary2020/

Live lessons are very divisive. It really requires all children to have a device each.

@DollyMixtureLulus

Live lessons are very divisive. It really requires all children to have a device each.

Thats true. You've burst my sails again.

So we don't do them at all... That is a good policy.

@DollyMixtureLulus if one device is shared you will need to disable saved passwords for glow log ins. Time to get teams app and google drive downloads through glow on any tablets your children use.

[quote WouldBeGood]@littlbrowndog I could put up with more of vaccination was proceeding apace; all day, every day.

They need to tell us why this isn’t happening[/quote]
Too right. There is no "out of the box thinking" on this.

24 hour drive though vaccination at Braehead.

Training an army of volunteers to vaccinate everyone.

Detailed plans - they should have been working on this since March LAST year when the first lockdown happened.

But they're more interested in telling people what they should and shouldn't be doing.

Even if the teachers were able to do recorded lessons it would help then it doesn't matter so much about kids seeing it at the exact time. So better for sharing tablets also for high schools trying to coordinate times.

I'm getting anxious that they close (play)parks again. It's all we do right now!

I've been asked to create some online learning resources for my university although I'm not a lecturer (professional services). I have no idea where to even begin. I don't think Zoom learning is enough, I need to think about what else I can do to deliver webinars and learning. Covering topics such as how to look after your mental health. Is there anything other than Zoom? It will be for university students. Its just in case the SG guidance changes and we are all still at home.

I've been lurking on the thread for a while but hadn't posted yet...

I'd love some 'live' lessons to keep my dc engaged with school as they get unmotivated very quickly but it also relies on good Internet connection, if DC had a lesson scheduled at the same time I have a work call our broadband won't support that and we'd need to pick one.

I absolutely want to keep everyone safe and slow/stop the spread but the thought of trying to work from home with 2 primary school children again makes me want to poke my own eyes out. We barely got through it last time, with no support or contact from school. I felt very alone as I tried to juggle everything while DP was out at work and I failed everyone badly. The support for working parents is woeful. I can't request furlough because my post is publicly funded and my dp needs to be in work (essential nhs).

Any good apps we could download? My eldest is 6 (primary 2). She got a new Kindle Fire for Christmas and is obsessed with it so some educational apps would be useful for the (inevitable) days where she won’t engage with my attempts to teach her.

Her reading is bloody brilliant but she has no interest in number work at all and her spelling can be a bit ropey.

Posted too soon. I thought maybe if I could get some number games on the go on the kindle then it’s better than nothing

@nextslideplease there are lots of options, depending on whether it's live online learning or online modules to complete in own time.

Try looking at other providers and what they have done. College development network has some online learning modules on mental health.

professionallearning.collegedevelopmentnetwork.ac.uk/course/index.php?categoryid=46

Futurelearn is another platform you might want to look at, or moodle, if your doing online modules. For 'live' you're probably best with zoom or MS Teams.

@littlbrowndog

Gawd what more restrictions can we get.

Haven’t been in anyone’s house since September

We can’t go out for a coffee even unless we want to stand in the snow

I don’t understand why the vaccine rollout is not going at a fast speed

And why SG are not saying we plan to vaccinate so many this week and so many next week and this is where.

Instead all we get is more restrictive talk which makes me feel like what is the point

So grim

I totally agree with bigging up the vaccination numbers. I think that's the only thing that is making me feel there's any end to all of this. If there are more restrictions without any indication of how we are going with our exit strategy I will cry. Again.

I'm also really worried they bring out the concept of blended learning again. I know it is (marginally) better theoretically than entirely online, but I can't see how it will work practically in terms of enabling working parents to work (Edinburgh was proposing 1 day per week in school, with an extra day every three weeks... and my employer wouldn't be impressed with that, and I'm self employed ) or how it will actually be delivered. If the class teachers are teaching the same thing three times, where would the preparation for or delivery of the home aspect be done? And of course, there would be the same issue of childcare having to be cobbled together by working parents, possibly from several settings (formal after school clubs or childminders, grandparents, informal childcare bubbles with other working parents etc) so I can't see how it will prevent mixing of the children anyhow. But my main worry is that we KNOW it was originally the plan to have blended learning for the entire academic year. So if that starts, we realistically have much less chance of getting out of it before June than total closure/ online. And that scares me.

I honestly wouldn’t stress about trying to educate dcs. Just get through this time, keep them safe and do other stuff with them when you can.

I’m my child’s mother, not his teacher and I need to preserve that, especially as it’s just the two of us here.

@ikswobel, why would you need to disable saved passwords? We don't, and we access glow with different accounts without any issue.

Another thought... surely schools shutting will hinder not help people who should be in jobs actually giving the vaccinations?! Seems crazy. Also to put children in the care of grandparents seems to put more vulnerable at risk. It defies logic, and yes I think forcing everyone into doing their Christmas shopping in two weeks has upped the numbers, as has the threats of lockdowns, feels like everyone’s been desperate to see each other “before lockdown” so therefore forces more mixing, the restrictions make things so much worse! I guess it looks like they’re doing something but actually doesn’t make sense.

@nextslideplease you would be best using MS Teams especially if you can get it for free either though glow or as part of Office 365.
Zoom will cost money and it's often blocked.
Massive amount on here www.microsoft.com/en-gb/education

Moose math is fun, my dd is 6 and she likes that @MamaTookMyEyebrows

thanks so much @Invisimamma

@Arkadia it depends on your IT, some laptops save passwords as default. It was a big issue in April

The schools round here every child from primary 4 up to sixth year at high school all have iPads now!

Thanks anon I’ll give that a bash.

I wish they’d just vaccinate the teachers. Vaccinate them, get them all back to school. That would to my mind solve one large issue.