The Fifth Republic - safe space? Solidarity Comrades!

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

I suppose my bias is showing flags : it's awful for KS3 /KS4 English.

FFS. We could do better in an evening.

We needed the country divided up into red and green areas.
Green areas open schools first for Y5, as they will be returning in Sept.

I would suggest the MN A-Plan of Group A Mon and Tues, Group B, Thurs, Fri.

That remains the same for three weeks, which allows for a formal review of numbers/ R.

The step after that could be Y2, who are young enough that social distancing is hard work, but old enough to begin to able to get it.

That took me 2 minutes. WHY is the government so incapable?

I know nurses go for ages without a loo break, but it isn't planned like that. I don't think I can go seven hours without quickly developing cystitis. Trivial in the grand scheme of things, but it doesn't fill me with confidence. 😥

As a positive, I've had some lovely mails from parents today asking me to stay home. They know i'm 50 plus and asthmatic. It was really nice to hear.
Because i'm pretty sure the parents of the kids I currently have in 6 and also have had siblings of way back and will have, hopefully, don't want me cleaning the loos between lessons. We might have our ups and downs but I sm basically a fixture at the school . Kill me via herd immunity? I've no doubt the trust will let me go down but the community might not.

I hope... ...

Erk, our plan is different to this. We spent 4 hours on a fricking Teams meeting earlier on this. All while trying not to actually discuss anything because of NEU advice. HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

It's all mental. I've just done my phase's term plan for online learning, but presumably I should hold off sending that out until we have to change all our plans and start again.

FFS. Shambles.

Why release all that stuff saying DON’T do this and you CAN’T do that, and then say it’s only guidance?

Why bother with guidance if you don’t have to do it?

Or do you...!

If some schools have YR in full time and others want to stick to their ‘1 day a week with 6 children to a room’ rota, I suspect their heads will be getting a ‘I don’t think so’ phonecall, after parents who need to work start complaining!

I honestly think that heads have been planning these rotas all week and DfE have hurriedly rushed this guidance out, realising parents are going to go apeshit when they realise they still can’t go to work as their child will only be in 1 day a week!

Schools are not required to use this guide, and may choose to follow alternative approaches to preparing for wider opening, or to use some sections of this guidance alongside other approaches.

Problem is, what if something 'happens' that can be traced back to the school, and the 'plan' if you didn't follow the guidance?

Tbh I haven't actually looked at Oak academy, it was more from a workload point of view. Imagine if it implied we'd teach whilst setting work for home...

I honestly think that heads have been planning these rotas all week and DfE have hurriedly rushed this guidance out, realising parents are going to go apeshit when they realise they still can’t go to work as their child will only be in 1 day a week!

That.

If the schools don't need to use the guide, does that mean they can have different groups in part - time?

realising parents are going to go apeshit when they realise they still can’t go to work as their child will only be in 1 day a week!

Which anyone with half a brain could have seen coming a week, two weeks ago!

Schools should NOT be put it in the position of navigating the return from a global bloody pandemic on ifs buts and maybes.

HOLD EVERYTHING have you seen this? With collusion with Mumsnet????? That's not gonna be biased?!?!?

I am encouraged by the responses to that tweet though. I haven't got the energy for it (and I'll be teaching), but we need to hold that minister to account in the webchat. I'll try and think of a question tonight.

I've not bothered with MN webchats since the severe policing of what could and couldn't be said when the election hopefuls came on last year, and in the Labour leadership election.

I looked at two Oak lessons, one for the year group I teach, one for my own child. They are 'good' if you can't be arsed, but twee - they have quite a forced way of speaking. All Reach videos I've seen have felt really forced. I don't like forced tweeness. By the time they came out, I'd already been doing my own lessons in the same way they've done theirs, so no reason to stop and start using someone elses.

I made the. Dc do.a bit of oak. They like the quizzes, but topics seemed a bit random.And dc turned off from the lessons. Bitesize goes down well.

National Oak Academy don’t even do lessons in my subject oh well!

They don't do German either, Chloe

And dc turned off from the lessons

I turned off from the lessons never mind ds!

The literacy one was too random with a load of spelling at the beginning. Pointless imo. They lost me immediately. yes I'm a child but it helps when planning for children

Seen these:

twitter.com/Teach4Teaching

www.theguardian.com/education/2020/may/14/teachers-can-legally-refuse-to-return-over-risk-to-health-union-warns

This has just popped up on the Guardian live feed

*hlebasconsidered

Brian Moore is a GOD to me. Author of the best graphic novels ever - saviour of reading and narrative to so many boys I have taught*

Thanks for the tip - will look him up!

It's all been planned from the Get Go. Funding to Oak to make a remote platform. Allowing criticisms of remote teaching devised by other schools. Letting Adonis Tweet freely...

Piggy yeah I've seen those two blokes. They're not going down too well with the general masses!

I bet Gav's wife has never been so pleased that she is an EX teacher,

Possibly different Brian Moore unless he fitted in writing alongside being a solicitor and rugby player. I will also look up the books though!

Ermmmm... Brian Moore is a rugby player...(was)