The Third Republic - solidarity comrades!

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You are most welcome to this school staff support thread to get us through stressful times. Baiters and bashers can jog on somewhere else.

If you are not staff and just have a general education query please start your own thread.

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-ABBA - anti bashers and baiting association
-SWAB - school workers against bashers
-SWOT - school workers opposing teacherbashers
-STARS - schoolworkers together against ranting + slurs

Other requirements for staff room entry include the ability to find the staff room, the ability to find a clean mug in the staff room, knowledge of the photocopier codes and the ability to sniff out where the toffee vodka is hidden.

Oh that's priceless
At least you got an apology!
My students have had how many weeks of this now and they've only just got around to complaining about the work....

Have just survived the first day of assessment week 😳 some keenies had completed the work by 9:10, had to chase some several times and a number still to do it. Rinse and repeat with a different year group tomorrow.
Am having a wine as just spent three hours bonfiring after supper.

echt is it really Wednesday in Melbourne? It's still Monday here. I know you're ahead of us but that would make it Tuesday, wouldn't it?

gravity, I get that with Google Classroom. They reply'I will next time'. EVERY TIME.

I love Dr Pepper!!!

I have homemade clementine or damson gin to share.

I'm a TA in special school, currently open to very few keyworkers' DC. I'm going in on a rota. We got an email today telling us how school will move towards reopening to more pupils once the government says so. It was very reassuring. Although a piece on Radio 4 this morning made me cry thinking of some of our students and their families at home.

Also parent to a Y12 DS and very grateful to all his school staff. He seems to be getting along quite happily.

Place marking

echt is it really Wednesday in Melbourne? It's still Monday here. I know you're ahead of us but that would make it Tuesday, wouldn't it?

You're right. I'm clueless.:o

Signing in, with coffee and cake.

Signing in with cake and sloe gin.

Ds got hooked on draw with rob yesterday and was drawing in bed at 9:30 last night and is now back on the laptop on the kids art hub.

That's home schooling sorted for today!

I teach P2 and have found the enthusiasm wearing off this week. Certain pupils returned work almost as soon as I'd set it. Now on week 4 and it's definitely slowed down.

What I hate about online marking handed in via Teams is how easy it is to pretend that it's not there. (And the hours you have to spend looking for where on Teams the students might have put it if they haven't got to grips with handing it in via Assignments. And then checking emails for the really old school kids' work). No physical pile of essays staring reproachfully at me from the corner of the study...

Only one lesson today but SO MUCH marking.

Am I the only one who has said to my students: I'm in my 40s! How is it possible that I am better at using the technology than you lot?!

Am I the only one who has said to my students: I'm in my 40s! How is it possible that I am better at using the technology than you lot?!

My whole school has had to resort to emails. So you are better than all if us. We don't have Teams though just a register system. Dark ages. Lol

Dragging my sorry arse in. 3yo was awake again from 1-4am. He keeps having a bad dream then refusing to go back to sleep. I have to do some work today that I had been putting off until I had had some sleep and so more brain. Oh dear :(

Phones and tablets have actually been the curse of society. Kids cannot use laptops or PCs. They have no idea how to save things properly. Some little children can't read books because they try to swipe...

I’ve realised with my own kids on the chromebook I borrowed from work that they’re really not good with it at all. It’s made me think I need to buy them a laptop so I can train them up properly, but how come the solution to everything seems to be to buy yet another electronic device?

Chromebooks are so shit. That's what DS borrowed form his school and it is so hard to use.

We're doing assessments. Seems nuts if only half th he kids are doing it though.

Data inputs next year will be interesting. Although looking forward to telling kids that yes, mocks DO matter and yes, they COULD be used to determine your grade because, you know, lockdown.

Oh, and was on one of these threads someone envisaged life with teenagers with masks? Cos it's doing the fb rounds.

Well, this is interesting. On one thread I read yesterday (about measuring classrooms), we were being told by Poster X that teachers needed to have some backbone and adopt more of a "can do" attitude. And yet on a thread I'm on today about non-resident nannies, the same poster is very upset about those who flout restrictions and show no respect for lockdown in their desperation to get back to work.

And yet on a thread I'm on today about non-resident nannies, the same poster is very upset about those who flout restrictions and show no respect for lockdown in their desperation to get back to work.

It's whatever suits them sadly.

Oh, that is indeed hilarious!!

I have always had that conversation every year with year 11cat in a very jovial, it will never happen fashion. Well, those chickens came home to roost...

I knowpiggy
Do we get our predicted grades if we're ill in.the exam?
No.
Do we get our predicted grades if there's a fire alarm?
No.
Do we get our predicted grades if someone dies in.the hall?
No. You wikl never, ever get a grade without working hard on.the run up to and during the exam.

The gods: Challenge accepted.

I've got some of my year 6 class asking if they can take the sats virtually! No. They've all picked up on the "year 6 are going back soon" news and think they'll still get their play and residential. No.

God knows why they think year 6 should go back anyway. Behaviour is terrible the final half term and all the transition stuff is basically a day of pshe. I'd rather have year 5 in! If i have to go back at all. Which i'm dreading, having just been prescribed a months worth of steroids for asthma.

@Asuitablecat 😂 so so true I have said that so many times before!!!