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

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

I have a health and safety dh. He keeps offering to tell my school how to do it. I've told him I.think they've got people on.it.

Just seen

Teachers or school employees as a class

that is desperation.

We have been told no extra children until at least the 8th. Feeling slightly better as this will leave more time to get properly organised and hopefully for numbers to fall and track and trace.

Piggy - I think you should phone the special H&S Covid whistleblower number.

FrippEnos- I don't follow

WhyNotMe40

It is a further attempt to lump everyone together.

they are finding that they can no longer generalise with teachers so we become teachers and school staff as a class.

Where was that? I think I'm missing the context.

its the government backs down thread. in coronavirus.

It was in trending, which I thought I had blocked.

Ok thanks. Sorry I think I'm having a slow day!

This is from the Guardian about the European Centre for Disease Control:

Only a skeleton group of fewer than 10 now work in the agency’s office in Stockholm.

But my school can have 100 staff in.

Only 22 allowed in the local BBC news studios. A whole building that normally holds 200. Why aren't they reporting on the discrepancy?

Even just adults. We've got a staff of 80, surely we should only have 8 in? On the basis of what the BBC considers safe.

whynot I am certainly considering a call to HSE.

In my department there are 13 teachers. There are 8 desks in a stuffy staffroom with no windows (skylight but it doesn’t open and door that opens onto a corridor with no windows.

I appreciate primary may be less crowded but?? It’s madness to make all staff be in for no reason. Is it just so everyone’s lives are equally shit and undervalued so no one can complain?

That's why we have a rota planned for after half term, which contravenes the "bubble" theory, but as I think that's a load of bollocks anyway (as kids will be mixing with God knows who outside of school), who cares?

Noone will have time to use the staffroom HoneyBadger.

Do you use the staffroom a lot? Genuine q.
My department is at the other end of school, it's a fair distance away. I have my own fridge and my own coffee so only see the other teachers at staff meetings. I do my marking at lunch, so I'm not completely a hermit.

I did see this on Twitter this eve. Had a giggle.

When schools were closed they were also open : clopen.
Now clopen schools will open wider: wopen.
But they're still be clopen for some and wopen for others.
So will they be clopen wopen? t.co/34P8J9uCQh

My department has the biggest office. We can normally fit all 11 of us in it (not necessarily to work in there at the same time, but definitely for lunch). With social distancing we can fit 4 in, if we rearrange the desks. We have 8 classrooms so we might possibly be able to make it work if we all stay in our individual classrooms unless someone else is using it. Not massively helpful to the other, more cramped departments who have just as many staff but a much smaller office and fewer classrooms.

Love that.
Staffroom - I use it every breaktime, my nearest colleagues use it in the morning and lunchtime as well. I think how close to it you are affects use! All the departments I can think of who go there are fairly close in location terms.

I'm primary, but it's a long way to the staffroom. I don't go there other than to get to the printer, but I do walk through every morning to check for cake.

My primary are using the hall as our new socially distanced staff room.

Well cake is important!

I'm very part time but try to pop in to the staff room one lunchtime for 10 minutes - although I normally try to work as much as I possibly can in school on my work days as I find I can't work at home with my kids around.

.... Oh, hang on a minute... Looks around me

That's a good idea basilika

We are turning a couple of different rooms into staff rooms.

We also have all staff in. The staff that aren’t teaching N,R,1 and 6 will be with the key worker children.

We also have a allocated staff member per year group to make home learning packs and other resources.

I love the idea of you hopefully checking for cake, pfrench. Is this based on any reasonable expectation of their being cake, or is it something you've done since childhood?

Ah you see I think that’s the primary v big secondary differences. In my department there are considerably less classrooms than staff, so if you’re not teaching you have to be in the department staffroom. We do have a whole school staffroom miles away that everyone crams into for staff briefings. I’d love to only teach in one room but then I’m lucky to only teach in one block. Some of my colleagues are all over the place as not enough science classrooms to accommodate all the science lessons happening simultaneously.

That’s the context from which I’m always talking about overcrowding and the joke of sd and finding extra classrooms.

Presumably they’re well aware they’ll need all hands on deck for incidents and for more trivial things like staff being able to have a wee or being unable to supervise a class and a child going to the loo and washing their hands simultaneously. Plus sitting in whatever extra space (broom closet?) with a child who is removed, or arrives with a fever and mummy can’t come get him because she works an hour away. All sounds hellish.