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.

It might end up being better to be in a ‘bubble ‘ than being the proverbial blue fly buzzing around all over the place as a useful spare body.

I love the idea of you hopefully checking for cake, pfrench. Is this based on any reasonable expectation of their being cake

I thought this was standard behaviour at the beginning of the day or morning break?
We used to have a rota for cake. If your birthday was in the same week as someone else or in the holidays you were allocated a week to bring cake in.

It is the rule in our staffroom that your birthday means you bring in a shit ton of cake and biscuits. That is still not enough cake however, so everyone signs up to a Monday a term as well.

There are rules - if you are on duty you write your name on the whiteboard and leave a saucer out for cake so you don't miss out.

There's a problem at my school with people emailing round to announce when they've put treats in the staffroom, just before morning break. Then what happens in anyone who has a free - plus the site team - dash over and hoover it all up...everyone else comes over and there's nothing left!!

You should be working with me, I make cakes etc at home and dole out for taste tasting and whatever the kids didn't want to take home at a practical gets nommed in the staffroom too I also know exactly where the ingredients have been! so they're edible ha!

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

Same here. We are using Science lans for rooms s they have more sinks. Only they are mainly bloked and to quote y10

' the water is manky'

Labs! Ugh

Does anyone know if they have pulled back on Nursery children being invited back on 1st?
BBC is now only reporting about reception, yr1 and yr 6 and on my own school website nursery is no longer mentioned!

Sorry to derail from cake, but I have a question, probably a stupid one.

Can someone explain how "Track and Trace" might make it safe to re-open schools?

Laura Kuenssberg slipped up at 6 o'clock and said Yrs 1 and 2.

It helps you find out who took the cake.

CallmeAngelina

Contact tracing has been used by successful countries such as South Korea, Singapore and Germany etc because it is triggered as soon as someone tests positive to isolate all throes people that person has been in contact with.

Those people will then be tracked down by using a location-tracking mobile app, which identifies people with whom the patient has been in contact.

The advantage of the app is that it can identify people the patient may not know - like fellow passengers on a bus.

It’s why I took our friend with a pinch of salt who inferred track and trace by not using an app but with people doing the job instead, would be equally fine for us to go back ASAP.

My family in Cyprus tell me the track and trace in Cyprus has been fantastic hence only something like 7 deaths and quickly ‘locking’ down the 4 testing positive when some Secondary kids went back to school.

It should be a national scandal our track and trace has been so dire since the start.

Loads of cake, nearly always. Big staff.

Only the adults who have a class bubble will be going in to school. That includes support staff. I feel quite weird about that, because I haven't got a class. My head has decided to stick with alternate weeks, 10 kids per bubble, but teacher and staff do both groups. That way the kids get their own teachers. KW children being taught by PPA cover staff. PPA will be every day for half an hour at the end of the school day, which is ending early by half an hour.

Rest of us teachers are at home, doing online lessons. This feels really shit - not an equal risk being taken. I dont know what our TAs will be doing, but means some of them will still be at home doing nothing if it's about reducing infection risks.

It means that if schools are opened to all year groups later on, then we can go in to school on the same basis - week on, week off. So, I get it as a thing.

It would be easier to have a class I think. I hate doing the online stuff, I find it really difficult.

Our track and trace app development was also give to Dominic Cummings mate's company. It's all bent and untrustworthy.

Oh god was it?! Explains so much. Corrupt. Corrupt. Corrupt.

t should be a national scandal our track and trace has been so dire since the start.

This! Why isn't it? What us wrong with the media?

I have noticed that the media very rarely mention nurseries they usually only mention YR, Y1 and Y6. I think that is because Boris didn't mention them in his initial speech and then it was a surprise when you read the original 50 page document.

Thanks, Chloe.
I suppose I had heard most of that. But whilst it might tell us who we've infected, it won't necessarily stop us getting it in the first place.

Yup : just like years 10 and 12.

I’m knackered and just about to fall into bed but had an online meeting today for our borough unions reps which was interesting. I’ll report back some of what was said tomorrow if helpful to anyone?

Yes, be interested to hear!

I am amazed there isn’t more in the media about Secondary Schools and what they are doing. I suppose hulking teenagers aren’t as newsworthy as cute little Primary School children so don’t grab the headlines in the same way

There's much less on here, too ineed. A couple of threads have started but gained far less traffic and attracted far less vitriol , mostly criticism of the government to be honest.

Things kicking off at my school : can't post here really because outing but , suffice to say, the head has lost nearly all good will.

Oh no piggy, that doesn't sound good.