Secondary teachers. What are the plans in your school for year 10?

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Just that really. We don’t have much of a plan yet. Head has sent a survey and is doing a risk assessment but that’s about all we know. Wondered what your heads are deciding?

No idea. Heard they were considering splitting them 4 ways and having 1/4 in each day doing English maths science. Then closing for a deep clean

we've had our plan for year 10 - year split into groups doing a couple of hours a day of the same subject, e.g. Group 1 maths 9-11, group 2 maths 11.30-1.30 etc. Just core subjects for now. Staying in bubbles in the same rooms, no breaks or lunch. Temperature checks on arrival, I think the trust are providing visors for staff who want them.
Have all but given up on the idea the DfE might actually offer some clarity!

Our current plan is Y10 split 5 ways, one group to come in each morning of the week. Different teachers will come in each day also. Aim is to give support with English, maths and science, and ideally they will see specialists for these subjects in the morning.

Each group will be

I really don't think this us What ' some face to face' means! Why are do many schools turning that into teaching?

Split them in 4.
Each group in on a different day, Mon-Thurs, until lunchtime. 3 week rolling timetable of week 1 is core, weeks 2 and 3 are options.

So each student is invited in one day a week.

Groups of 8 allocated to a teacher and to one room for the whole day. Teachers who are not shielding etc in teams to cover one day a week. Supervising the kids while they do the online work. No teaching in first draft of plans. Thinking they will be targeting the yr10s who haven’t engaged with the work from home, vulnerable pupils etc, plus expanding provision for eligible pupils in other years.

The current (but ever Changing) plan is half of year 10 in from 8th June for 3 hours in the morning Monday to Thursday. Most time for core, with one hour a week for options. Other year half in the next week.
So a week in, a week off.

No info yet on PPE , use of toilets, corridor etc.
Main input/work to still be online. There was even discussion over whether they would be allowed to have books/paper/pens, either from school or home. So it would be entirely chalk and talk teaching??!?

So now Boris has announced 15th June as return date for y10 and y12
Has your school adjusted plans?
We’d been told y10 would start coming in on 8th June originally.
I’m waiting to hear if we’re adjusting our return date accordingly.

And no half day rota of students allowed (well, the guidance strongly discourages it)

You have to : it says in the guidance not before 15 June...

Amongst all the other vagueness that's the one clear statement.

I don't know why more schools don't do what yours is cathpot. the only thing that makes sense to me is to try to drag in the recalcitrant, otherwise there is too much planning of both online and remote learning.

What happens if someone teaches both core and option poetry?

Are the core teachers not getting a massively increased workload with some of the plans above, or am I missing something?

A special two week timetable will be sent out after half term. It will list who in when.

Online teaching has to continue for lower years and for year 10 & 12 who are not in

Not doing full days.

Our chief timetabler said that his brain hurts.

NASUWT members might want to consult your email inboxes.

Plans by SLT should only be drawn up AFTER considering which staff are reasonably expected to be able to attend AND after workload is considered.

@StrawberryJam200 The guidance about half day rotas is for primary not secondary, apparently!

@SansaSnark no it's definitely in the secondary guidance.

Quite similar to @Cathpot.
Groups of 8 students in a room with one teacher all day. English, maths and science live streamed into the rooms. Teacher’s job is to supervise only.
So, a bit like remote teaching but not requiring a laptop. And with an adult who is not a blood relative telling you to do it!
After two days of this tedium, groups of 8 sent home, school deep cleaned and new sets of 8 brought in for two days.
And that’s the week by week of summer term, folks
On the plus side, my core subject skills should be polished up by the end of term.

@Piggywaspushed workload wise, a single member of staff will be live streaming to all students on site at the same time. So no massive work load increase for core subjects. Core subject teachers - apart from the one person streaming - will be supervising a group of 8 the same as other other staff members.
It will be deathly

Goodness. That sounds a bit Big Brother. Kids might just as well stay at home?

Agreed Piggy, but I think our school’s parents are very much of the ‘he refused to do it so there’s nothing more I can do’ brigade. Very little work being accessed. Aspirations are not great in this area. Not poverty, just heads below the parapet of risk and the world beyond these parts.

It doesn’t really fulfil the criteria of face to face contact does it? The Head says safety/health first and education second.

A friend sent me reviewed guidance which is talking about the 15th. I’ve completely gone off coms for the start of half term so I don’t know if that changes our plan. Presumably we just shift the start date. I’m not sending my own year 10 DD in for the baby sitting as she is getting on well at home and I think it will be so so dull. Very interesting to see if our most lively characters come in, or keep coming in once they have had a taste of it , or how they will behave . We have been told to use our normal ‘warm move park’ system and if they get parked their access to the place in school is to be reviewed. Workload wise I’m supposed to do my day in school and carry on supporting my classes at home. As I am part time and it’s been taking the whole week to look after my classes that’s not great. I suspect the school will say you can get on with your own work while you supervise and I also suspect that won’t be the reality. My head is generally very supportive and if I bring this up will just say think about what you are setting so that it’s easier to mark etc.

That guidance came out during Cummings' confessional yesterday...