So, exactly how will the GDPR compliance affect how you do your work?

[DrMadelineMaxwell]

Still waiting for the actual info to be filtered down to us plebs at ours, but some stuff has been hinted at.

One of the issues with GDPR is ‘the right to be forgotten’. If you keep data haphazardly on things like data sticks then it is very hard to delete all data for an individual as you don’t know where it all is.

I find ‘the right to be forgotten’ quite useful in thinking about where personal data is and how it should be stored/transferred. I’m not a teacher though.

Yes, though the right to be forgotten doesn't trump the legal obligation to keep certain kinds of data for specified amounts of time. You can only delete the data that you either a) don't need in order to fulfil your current role of educating the child, or b) don't need to keep for legal reasons. Most school data seems to be either stuff that you need to delete as soon as the child leaves the school OR stuff that you absolutely mustn't delete until the child's about 103 .

We were told we can't have anything on the wall with children's names on it like which reading/spelling/maths groups they're in, so that will mean supply teachers won't have a clue who does what

So, is all this going to come under Ofsted's remit? If they discover anything amiss, a school could fail on safeguarding?

A data breach would cost our school a fine in the region of £700,000 plus a criminal conviction for the individual responsible.

Aaaargh!!!!!!!!! It's been driving us nuts for ages. The online course I did was the dullest thing I've ever encountered (and I'm not easily bored). I've heard more than one person comment on sledgehammers and nuts.

On the positive side, there's going to be a any fewer marketing emails.

I don’t work in school but in a medical field. We have to keep one particular form with children’s info on for 25 years! It a paper form with no electronic back up, it’s stored by year and in an old box in a lock up, we only switched to electronic forms last year, if anybody asked for their old forms I would have to look through 15 boxes to find it!

We haven't had any information about this at all. We've asked, but slt "haven't really had time to sort it yet"

Meanwhile, my hod has been going through the filing cabinet and shredding data from years ago (I think the earliest test data, with full names, classes and test scores, came from 2003!). He found the test scores of 2 of our current teachers from back when they attended our school. We obviously haven't gone through that filing cabinet, ever. I wonder why anyone thought we'd need it after those kids left the school.

I don't know how I'd cope with kids not having names on their books/work, or not having names in my mark book. I wouldn't be able to keep track with just initials.