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.

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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.

"Get Pandemic done!"

I have tweeted Emma Barnett. First time in my life I have ever done such a thing!

Hello, only visited a few times (I'm not the expected inspector) and necessary name change as could be outing; my setting is an SEND school. The only way we've been able to plan for an increase numbers across the whole school (guidance is different for us) is to do a longer half day, children going home after lunch in class, so rooms can be deep cleaned and staff can wfh and manage home learning for everyone else. This helps with the 'breaks' issue, I expect it's 2 staff to a bubble though, Still going to be on a 2 week rota at the mo.

It's very silly flexibility hasn't been given for all schools as all are so very different.

Going to burn this name in 5.4,3,2,1...

Dammit, spag errors... a SEND school, cba to do the others...

I'm a 1-1 TA in a special school. There is absolutely no way I can maintain 2m distance if my student returns, they need someone beside them. No idea yet if it is going to be an issue. We've only been open to a very, very few children.

Our LA has told the unions there is no expectation that schools will open on June 1st. They have also said KW children are to be the priority.

Well done tadie

Wow @namechangergamechanger1 (now called something entirely different!) you're a SEND school and still only have two adults to a group?? Isn't that going to be tricky?

I'm completely guessing that bit! If the group are as low as 4-6, for a few bubbles 2 adults would be fine. For other bubbles especially with certain children, we'd need at least 2 people available to manage their behaviour if unsettled. I don't know what it's going to actually look like yet, but do know the timings of the day, which is also to help stagger arrivals.

No idea how taxis are going to work yet either.

It's the biggest jigsaw ever.

I work I..one of the militant areas. Looking forward to.seeing how it goes here.

There is an awful presenter on LBC he is clueless. Doesn't let anyone speak. What a horrible person.

I popped in to see if it was safe to come back to mumsnet again.
A brief look round tells me it isn't!
Wonder what I can find to do with my free time instead...

Oh, I thought it had got a bit better mistress... But other than a 'what will schools look like?' thread which is perfectly reasonable, I haven't really looked!

We have 1800 students most of whom come by bus. Staggered start and finish is going to be interesting ! The buses go in lots of different to directions so bubbles will not only have to account for subject choices but also where you live. Even for year 10 that's 300 students to organise. I teach a class with 8 in it but even they can't all be in the same bubble as they don't do the same subjects. Help !

I don't think we have many GCSE students with the same timetable. There's 9 or 10 subjects per student in different classes, sets, option blocks, tutor groups.

I could see schools trying to come up with a rota or sorts, but given the government have said no to rotas and no to part time, it's a bit of a nightmare.

smartsurvey.co.uk/s/ofstedpp41/

Weird Ofsted Parents' survey about when to resume inspections

I suggested 'never'.

Are you two on the bubbles thread?

I think heads are going mad organising year 10 when NOTHING has come from the government yet. They REALLY need to get something out because it is NEVER mentioned in briefings and so no one has interrogated Jenny Harries et al
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I sometimes think heads get over excited by planning and have no one to say 'woah there'. Primary heads seem more child and parent centred.

Totally with you there piggy

Agreed Piggywaspushed, very worrying that there is no accountability at all for the Govetnment's actions.

The zoom lesson thread is doing my head in! I made the mistake of engaging so I suppose it’s my fault.

@Piggywaspushed I will go find that thread for ideas. To be fair to our head he has given up and thrown it open to us for ideas. We had a go at modelling something and ended up with 171 bubbles 😂

Did anyone ever think in their wildest dreams this time last year that "bubbles" would be the latest school lingo and hot talking point?!

That's interesting re send school set up.

It's also interesting reading various local primary school news updates on websites. One Gateshead primary have firmly used a statement issued by the council from what I can see.

Hi misstress, actually I think the tide is turning on many threads.

Piggywaspushed

There is no way any of my Deaf pupils will be in a bubble with no Communication Support Worker or Teacher of the Deaf. They need us to actually know what the heck is going on. So this 'one adult per bubble' thing has to be flexible!

They just have to accept that a lot of children with EHCPs will need an extra adult. The school can try and take it away but we'll fight them tooth and nail! (I don't think they would, though, they're very used to us in the Hearing Resource Base and great at including BSL into school life.)

(Name changed for a different thread, I'm a regular here, but using this name so I can post more freely.)

I think tide is turning in our favour a little, too. I think a lot of parents can now see what we're up against and that we're trying to find solutions to these impossible problems.

There simply aren't enough staff to deliver this the way the government want.

Other countries are doing rotas etc. A friend in France has described her children's school like that.

It's not even whether there are some more reasonable threads (I think I backed away after reading a comment that we have given teachers a bad name on mumsnet) but just the lack of anything interesting or pleasant to read - it's schools threads left right and centre!