The Third Republic - solidarity comrades!

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The bucket thing is a good laugh though

I love the sweet optimism of the government wanting something to happen.equalling government giving us money to do it.

I feel that as a random teacher she wants me to now go bucket shopping, deliver than to SLT and say "Ta da! I've solved all problems, let's get the school open"

No, not to SLT-I think you’d go straight to Gav himself!

That thread is abysmal. Despite the DfE saying it’s not safe to open schools, that poster believes teachers should be protesting that it’s fine?!

Yup we got some hand gel in about three days before school closed. Like one bottle per department. Several got nicked on the first day

Buckets appear to be a primary school topic now. The poster has linked hiistory and science to buckets. I'm waiting for all the other subjects to be linked.
Counting buckets
Writing about buckets
Drawing buckets
Making buckets
Jumping over buckets
Looking at the countries that make buckets
Discussing whether buckets have souls

Morning. Read the buckets nonsense. Please send that lady three buckets and bars of soap and 30 teenagers and get her to film a demonstration.

But get them to swab their hands before and after to see if they’re cleaner or dirtier after dunking in stagnant water

She wanted to turn it into a lesson. The topic of cholera would work well

Singing about buckets. I know a really good one:
"There's a hole in my bucket, dear Lisa, dear Lisa..."

All buckets mean to teenagers is slang for a vagina

Is strictly1 in here. Is she suggesting that we share a bucket per class? That sounds like a really bad idea in terms of virus spread

Asuitablecat I am totally up for the bucket topic. Sounds pretty awesome. I have a PSHCE book that uses a bucket as a metaphor for a child's emotional capacity- we definitely need to plan that in.

Own goal - why? It was doing very nicely and was sensitively and cleverly managed by the OP until the massed nutters descended late last night and really showed how unpleasant they are.

Yes, that was the point! It needed to be 'moderated'. Once it had got to the point of a teacher being able to point out that all they are interested in is childcare, and they should shut up about school provision now, I'd been deliberately annoying and it was of course going to go downhill. They've been proven to be ridiculous, of course a backlash. Just ignore it now. I noticed that the two posters who have previously spent a lot of time bashing teachers tried for a whole 2 or 3 posts to 'get' the productive point of the thread. Well done them!!

Ah yes, Have You Filled A Bucket Today, all about how we have an invisible bucket of wellbeing above your head.

I always associate it with a very sweet but utterly clueless student who thought it would solve Y5’s Y5ness.

It was clear from the moment it was created how it would go though.
I think I've had enough for the day though. (It's the weekend isn't it?) I was up late working on my class lists for next year so have woken up grumpy and not keen to be slagged off again on the internet.

The bucket is a perfect analogy to the problem. If every child has a separate bucket at home - clean hands. If a small number of children wash their hands under supervision with the water changed each time - clean hands. If all children pile back into the same bucket - dirty hands and germs!

Not to mention the skill it took to manage with only one bucket per class in the first place before any virus!

It is the weekend!

As well as the lemon gin, DH bought frozen pastries. They’re so nice! With my £3 Ikea milk whisker I can make a passable cappuccino too.

I am amazed that they can't see what would happen to/with these buckets for the kids that didn't want to be i school.

Especially with a poster saying exclude the kids that didn't behave.

with a poster saying exclude the kids that didn't behave

I’m up for that!

#bucketgate
Hah that thread has gone nuts!
I know a bit about hygiene I have certificates and everything but buckets ..just NO. Running water, yes.
Particularly enjoyed the "roll your sleeves up and take a wage cut" comment.

I think that’s what it boils down to-some people will expect schools to go back completely as normal, after a massive emotional upheaval. With 30 children to a class full time as before and expect them to be able to socially distance, not react in any way and behave impeccably around each other, their grief and 1200 fucking buckets of water.

And if they don’t-it’s because the teachers have poor discipline!

I expect Ofsted, PMR, lesson observations and book scrutinies will be telling us we’re shit, too!

I really want to resign. 20+ years in and I think I’m done. I don’t want to do another 25 of whatever it is until retirement . It’s not the job I started doing.

Ah, it's popped. Sad times. That was my amusement for today. I might open thread 2??

MossWalk yes! That's the one

Exclude kids who won’t behave? How very last century of them. I’d happily bring back that practice

I’m sure I read somewhere that the gov were going to pass some legislation to prevent schools from sanctioning children who were suffering emotionally as a result of this. I wonder what that will look like...

I've got that bucket book too 😊 I bought it when dd2 was going through a particularly anxious time when she was about 4/5. Every night we read that book and the big bag of worries, then listen to a guided meditation and she would fall asleep to that. It helped an anxious 5 yo, I can't see it helping anyone much older than that, especially curing y5 of being y5!

Tbh, I don't want to go back and have to counsel kids through the trauma of cv instead of teaching my subject. I'm not emotianally equipped.I don't want return to work to be one long pshe lesson. I came in to teach a subject, not be a counsellor. I'm only good with fictional emotions, which probably explains why my own children are mildly sociopathic.