The Seventh Republic - the debate rages on but for some it is half term!

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Why is the main media not picking this up and reporting? This doesn't make the 1st June look good at all

I agree-it’s not being reported at all. Why?

Nothing on sky or BBC

The Daily mails reporting on it is abysmal as expected.

Get it on to FB - that's where loads of people get their news (and opinions) from!

I've managed to get my recording in the bag. Thank fucking fuck. Equivalent fractions, first intro - just needs to be worded SO carefully.

I think the government will just fiddle the science/stats/whatever in order to get us back June 1st. They won't want to lose face. They'll find a way to say all tests have been met and it's safe. Is it too early for Friday gin?

@cantaloupeisland

I agree. Never too early for Friday gin, though.

Cantaloupe - individual schools and MATS and LEAs are making the final decision, though. Falling like flies in my area (ie primaries that were going to open on the 1st now looking at 15th).

Apparently over 90% of our year 10 will be back in June 1st, despite having no guidance from the useless DfE

Yes I think this will be taken out of the government's hands and be down to individual councils and even schools, as is already happening. Many are saying that they are allowing schools to make the ultimate decision.

Apart from anything it's about logistics.

Really? It is a small cohort?

I don't know any local schools who are looking at having them all in at the same time. My school still hasn't made any firm plans.

Do The Guardian ever get represented at the daily Briefing?

Our head has had to massively row back on may plans today after union pressure. He hasn't said that's why it is.

An academy chain has been forced to change its plans three times because the DfE issued 41 updates to its guidance in a week

About 170, they won't all be in at once, they're splitting them into groups doing 2 hour sessions at a time then going home. Then of course there's all the key worker lot still in

I still don't know what's happening at my school - we are supposed to be told today and it's not like the head to delay emails.
My kids school is still ploughing ahead with 1st June for R yr1 and yr6 and I have to let them know asap if dd2 will attend. I keep flip flopping.

I still don't quite understand where the independent SAGE bunch fit into all this.

This is all the BBC have to say on it!!

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The government has released the evidence it used when creating the plan to reopen schools for some pupils from 1 June. It says the risk of coronavirus to pupils going back to the classroom was "very, very small, but it is not zero"

Seems our school got round the working through holidays issue by asking staff to volunteer and had enough volunteers.

Have ploughed through a fair bit of maths with ds. Transpires he’d never been taught how to do fractions on a calculator. Loving the cgp books.

I can't do another term of providing online stuff while having my child around and partner hogging the office and bandwidth. It's 'super' that I can work in the middle of the night, but I'd rather not.

Apparently we are all back in bubbles of 15 on the 8th. Everyone apart from those staff with a letter from the NHS. So I'm to be in regardless. That was made quite clear.

It's not going away apparently, so if we don't feel able to take the small risk - because we came into the job to work either children after all- then we should talk to HR. In other words, leave.

I am so very disappointed in my school leadership.

Our head thinks that recording lessons does not add to workload.

phlebas UNION UNION UNION

Piggy your head sounds like a right weapon!

appu I assume the BBC didn't understand the SAGE stuff?

Oh phleb, Union now!

The thing is, the government have also ignored the official sage group.

I bet the news peeps are attempting to untangle the difference between "not safe to open" and "not safe to open."