Pritt stick alert!

[DrSeuss]

Just filled out a lesson plan for my observed lesson and must alert fellow teachers to a previously unconsidered risk. My MFL specific lesson plan asked if the kids would be using scissors or glue. Clearly, allowing a group of Y7s to stick a sheet in a book with a Pritt stick is a dangerous activity!
Be aware!
They could try to sniff it and get a sticky nose. They could stick the sheet in the wrong place. The possibilities are endless!

Or they could rub the glue over the their hand and wait for it to dry and then spend the lesson peeling it off ( like a facial but for your hands).

Cheap eyebrow waxing ?

They will lose all the lids and wreck the classroom/cause mortal injuries looking for them!

If I taught DT or PE then fair enough, I need to risk assess. But Spanish? Seriously?!

The staff at my school in the 70s heard about the dangerous glue-sniffing craze.

So they confiscated our Pritt sticks.

You can never be too careful.

An English secondary school teacher friend of mine wouldn't let her classes use pritt sticks because she said it always resulted in the children throwing them at the ceiling en masse, to see who would be the first to get one to stick.

Risk assessments for all lessons. What an excellent idea. Do you think that I should identify the flickering strip light on every assessment?

Everybody knows it is the permanent markers that you had the urge to sniff , not the pritt stick.

Even if you did risk getting a black nose.

There is one huge risk to a school if there are too many Pritt Sticks knocking about. Someone might stick one up the SLT's arse.

Could a standard size Pritt Stck get stuck up your nose. I wonder?

I am tempted to see just how hard it is to have an accident with a Pritt Stick.

Life on the wild side, eh!

Your school can afford actual Pritt Stick?

We did the pritt stick on the ceiling thing as teenagers. En Masse. 40 odd of the buggers up there. They stuck for nearly the whole double lesson before raining down. Was bloody hilarious when youre 13.

I reckon someone, at some point, has tried to stick one of these up their bum.

And the blurb I was given requires me to teach British values. In my Spanish lesson. So, i shall compromise by taking an Hispanic attitude to the glue (is OK. Is not dead yet.) while checking the box the risk assessment box!

Kez-it couldn't make them any more full of shit!
And they're not Pritt, they're YPO. No cash. None at all. I have 7 for the entire year, then they bollock me because nothing is stuck in.

is OK. Is not dead yet

Their grandparents survived a bloody civil war, their parents lived under a dictatorship till the mid 70s. Clearly, Pritt stick safety would be a priority!

I was there at the civil war, the confederates were chucking pritt sticks everywhere. The children snorted them, got high and killed most of our men. Pritt stick started the war, and i would like to see its end before i inevitably pass on into the holy kingdom of Scotch glue

Should I be worried I've never included print sticks in my RAs for my Cub Group?
I have a comprehensive scissor one. You know, blunt kids scissors....

@LorenzoCabbott12

I was there at the civil war, the confederates were chucking pritt sticks everywhere. The children snorted them, got high and killed most of our men. Pritt stick started the war, and i would like to see its end before i inevitably pass on into the holy kingdom of Scotch glue

thanks for making me giggle