The Fifth Republic - safe space? Solidarity Comrades!

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You are most welcome to this school staff support thread to get us through stressful times. It is meant for school staff. 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.

You can play here only if you are a member of one the following groups-

-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.

In the other staffroom, there is rhubarb & ginger gin, along with tea and coffee.

My head is bloody fantastic. Very sensible and asking no more than 10 in a room. Kids stay where they are as much as possible. 25% of Yr10 in each day Mon-Thurs and Yr12 in Friday for lessons but can access support in 6th form block 1 other day a week.

So grateful for SLT with their heads on straight.

I wore a mask to Sainsbury's this afternoon and really disliked it. I didn't realise I smiled at so many people. I felt very socially isolated.

Impossible to teach phonics with it on for sure.

I have done it too.

Asked before but think it got buried in my holiday whinge...

Has anyone heard of , or used, Electa??

What is Electa?
@RigaBalsam are you in the NE too?

Well, may you ask!

It's a learning platform ...apparently.

Hang on, if we're cleaning toilets who's on break duty?

@pinkrocker
Yes a bit further south than you.

Solidarity to the NE crew!

Solidarity to the NE crew!

Definitely. Our R predicted R rate is worrying if correct.

Thank goodness for these thread. Normal thread all seem to descend into teacher bashing and it's driving me crazy.

Ok NE crew I'll admit to living and working rurally in Northumberland but that's as much as you get out of me !

I'm not in the NE any more, but I grew up there. I'm now in the NW, Cumbria, where we have a very high R rate apparently. We aren't coming out of this well, at all.

@GuyFawkesDay - so pleased that you have a supportive HT as well. Some HTs clearly want to keep hold of their staff

Our Head is currently saying he'll look at possibly opening mid June for probably 2 days (total) for Y10 and one day total for Y12. He is ONLY going to do this if he's absolutely convinced his staff and students are safe. He says he will be conferring with unions on it.

Bloody love him if he sticks to that.

I was looking at the data for south of the Tyne, blooming scary stuff. Then I looked at compliance data; it was 25% non compliance a week into April.

Where are you finding the compliance data neuro? I'd like to see it for Cumbria. As well as more local R data, as the NW is a huge geographical area.

Anyone see Professor 'I think' on BBC One.

Every single answer began 'I think'

She stated 'most teachers are young and healthy'

They are showing a secondary now...

They're not all young and healthy in my school. We have quite an old teaching population. Some of our teachers have been at our school 30+ years, and I'm still relatively "new" having been there 14 years

Why are teaching staff getting a bashing for having the same concerns as care home workers? Both work in environments where transmission is possible. The public went nuts over the management of care home staff and the ppe crisis. I honestly can't see the logic behind clapping for one lot and villifying the other! Do we have to start dying to matter?

@MsAwesomeDragon - ours too. We have an awful lot of staff in their late 40s and 50s (including myself).

We've only got 2 NQTs in the school, and one of those is vulnerable. It concerns me greatly that we are seen as expendable.

MrsAwesome it was a brief google on Middlesbrough; some news reports came up on that area. I'll try to find the article; the full data would have been helpful.

@NeurotrashWarrior I'd love to see that too.
I shared the letter from the Northumbrian primary school with my team. I think it's only me that was really upset by it as I used to teach KS1, I can not imagine not giving first aid and not consoling and not comforting a child with a little hug. I'm a "touchy" kind of teacher with little ones.

Yep. I'm early 40s and am about in the middle of the age range of teaching staff. Most of our older staff have underlying health conditions (so we're at deaths door? Apparently)

I think I love Brian Moore:

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