The Sixth Republic - Will we or won’t we? That is the question! #solidarity

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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
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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.

So being dense and not very good at cryptic crosswords I wondered who our nautical friend was, googled the name of one of the most ferverent teacher haters and got this:

the generosity and courtesy shown to those who are far from home and/or associates of the person bestowing guest-friendship

Ironic?

One person on one thread got what I was talking about and I feel like doing cartwheels. It’s like teaching, sometimes you have to celebrate even the smallest win in a day!

Did you see another set of guidelines arrived?
All about cleaning, this time.

@pinkrocker do you have a link to the new guidelines?

I do feel a bit sorry for SLT trying to come up with plans when every few days a new set of guidelines comes out which may put their plans into disarray!

I think those plans have scuppered our plans for one of the year groups.

@SansaSnark www.gov.uk/government/publications/managing-school-premises-during-the-coronavirus-outbreak/managing-school-premises-which-are-partially-open-during-the-coronavirus-outbreak
This links to yesterday's but this morning I was reading one on twitter that had been updated today and now I can't bloody find it.

Someone else asking us to consider yet another evil in society and yet another group of kids...

I very much welcome the reopening, as long as it’s safe to do so. But I have a concern that one group of children was not mentioned and that’s children in earlier secondary years, 11 to 14 years of age.
Years 7, 8 and 9, there was no intention of them going back to school before September. Now that is profoundly concerning to me – large numbers of younger children, those more likely to be swept up by the gangs and taken into county lines getting into all sorts of other things, very undesirable things.
Those children will be available for those criminals to take them on. I think the government needs to urgently look at that. That if the schools are going to reopen there is going to have to be some ongoing education for those younger teenagers as well.
It could be making provision for them to have good-quality distance learning or having some time in the school so they keep contact with their studies

Of course a police commissioner very much welcomes a return to school : less for him to worry about in school hours...

Wow, quite a survey --obviously just the militant brainwashing-

www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/19/only-5-of-teachers-think-it-safe-to-reopen-english-schools-poll-shows

Gosh piggy all those selfish lazy teachers who are not thinking about society and mental health and education of the children. They should be ashamed I tell you.

@Piggywaspushed, does he really think that there will be no ongoing provision for those not in school? Muppet.

In any case, those who are taken on for criminal activities would do so regardless of whether school was available to them or not. Perhaps he needs to look closer at getting the various prison outreach programmes into schools, helping prevent this in the first place?

Does anyone know what happens about PPA if you have to be full-time with your bubble?

Cleaning guidelines? Please let them say exa tly what ive organised.

Thanks for the new guidelines.

I do think it's interesting that despite Micheal Gove saying schools should be for education only a few years ago, and some schools therefore having to cut pastoral roles, we are now expected to tackle and solve every possible social problem that could face teenagers.

It's almost like social work and youth work budgets shouldn't have been slashed to the bone...

As if they'd be slashed. C'mon the Conservative party love everyone, particularly children.

Cleaning guidelines? Does it mention all staff running around like blue arsed flies having been asked to get the necessary equipment and wipes etc from supermarkets? Bet it fucking doesn’t.

Oh they'll be "provided" by the school. The useless pink spray and that. Not Milton or anything useful.

French teachers return to schools with safety masks and one-way lanes in classrooms making a mockery of UK union demands

Comical! Really comical.

Does anyone know what happens about PPA if you have to be full-time with your bubble?

A lot of schools seem to be organising a part time timetable to accommodate this, half days etc, also to accommodate the staggering of start and finish and also cleaning, or even 4 days.

So it’s either state school open or a life of crime for 11-15 year olds? They don’t have parents, social services and police forces? COAB

If you’re technically not expected to teach or mark (though obviously you will or they’ll be climbing the walls) then I dare say they’ll argue you don’t need ppa. I haven’t even seen info as to when you’d go to the toilet leaving a class unsupervised

Suddenly, pinkrocker we are allowed to use Dettol and bleach wipes frequently. Fancy that. Almost as if the watery pink stuff is useless after all

@NeurotrashWarrior that was the plan with our Primary school but then it falls foul of not allowed to offer part-time. Anyone would think these guidelines have been prepared by someone who doesn't know how schools work!

The 11-15 yr olds round here who drift into criminal activity seem to fit it in around their studies already.
So yes, parents step the fuck up, because it’s not a secondary teacher’s job to monitor that.

I think i got the last 5l of Milton in existence. Sorry.

We now know what stem and leaf diagrams an quadratic ranges are. Clearly no one told the person setting year 8 maths work at our school that the curriculum was suspended and to focus on consolidating rather than new content.