The Eight Republic - half term over - primaries under pressure- 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
-STARS - schoolworkers together against ranting + slurs

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.

If you are fed up with cakes and biscuits there is now a cheeseboard on offer

I just shouldn’t come on the threads here. Have now wandered into a thread saying if schools don’t open full time for everyone in Sept people will have to quit their jobs.
That will make the summer hols entertaining then reading those threads about how we are solely responsible for everyone losing their jobs .
pfrench isn’t that ironic that most people aren’t concerned about those children who won’t eat for the summer holidays funny that.

We do have clickview but it's very limited. I can't do any downloading. It's all blocked.... looks like it'll have to be YouTube. The inaccessibility if these films is such an issue !

I'll ask about Clickview though !

Sliding in as I have found my people.

Lasted 1.5 days before we had to shut. It’s all going marvellously...

Just checking in. How come you closed queen?

Clickview is the best for students watching at home although the quality can be pretty poor sometimes. We also had an issue that some of the films are 18 certificate so automatically hidden from students so we got round that by just labelling them as 15! Definitely push for better access to it or whatever you need as it’s worth having anyway and such a lifesaver for remote teaching. You can also access things other centres have put on which is useful.

I’m lucky that our internet at work is largely unfiltered for me and lightly for the students as they’re 16+. I’ve had nightmares in school before (remembering when the GCSE exam topic was game shows and they couldn’t get on any sites because everything with “game” in was blocked).

Crikey, what happened, queen ?

@TheHoneyBadger

And they want those beds half full again to get another wave done and dusted before flu season. There’s little room for morality in late stage capitalism.

This with bells on.

So, this is the tutoring pilot Gav was on about:

schoolsweek.co.uk/williamson-backs-national-online-tutoring-pilot/

Lovely as they may be what do uni students know about the curriculum and exams and testing and teaching?

We have sixth formers do this,but at least they are recently successful at current GCSEs

Staff member with suspected C19. By the time we sent home everyone who had been in contact (moving furniture, training in new systems etc) we had about 3 members of staff who could remain in school. But remember, the government says children don’t spread C19- what a shame we need to have adults actually running the school!

And that's why you aren't supposed to have meetings! Which some workplaces are persisting in!

Just coming here for a little cry. Thread saying 'Yes, I want my child to go back to school without social distancing because they need to be back in school and it's all NASTY with SD and I DON'T CARE TWO HOOTS ABOUT THE SAFETY OF TEACHERS'

I am putting myself at risk (medically vulnerable, older teacher), back in school with a bubble of kids doing SD as best they can, because i love the children, and if i didn't go in we wouldn't have enough staff for them all to come in.

But frankly, that thread makes me want to hand in my notice. Why should I do this for the children of parents who think ONLY about their little darlings and not at all about anyone who actually works in a school?

@mlou, if she's anything like my dc's primary head, she will refuse to have the child in. I know it's child's word against yours but reportedly the primary head was taking to a student who told them that X and Y had been over, regularly and what they had been doing. There are safeguarding and vulnerable child issues from my understanding of speaking with this parent myself (she freely moans about what 'the school' is doing to her). head refused to have the child in for 14 days in case they developed symptoms. One of the senior staff dropped off their lunch every day for 2 weeks.

A lot of people don't get on with the head, and she can be a bit marmite. But she really does come across as caring for her pupils and her staff.

Bugger Queen! Hope the suspected case gets test results swiftly.

Didn’t they actually say that cantkeep? That’s horrendous. No surprise but they usually stop short of saying openly that they don’t give a shit about our safety

I use Clickview and it's a life saver. The quality has improved immensely, though sometimes they hold several versions of a text in the library section, so worth searching for the better version.

Bloody hell QueenI hope you are all ok.

@cantkeep- is that the November one? I got cross in there and said that I care more about my family and my own health, over another child. Particularly their child's education. It's a fricking job.

Hope everyone is ok. I've had an unpaid day (although still marking now!) and a full day off Mumsnet and do you know, it's done wonders. I haven't read any threads slagging off teachers (and I've muted my dc parents' WhatsApp group because they were driving me crazy yesterday).

I took my car for MOT (passed, yay!) with one dc and we had a very pleasant walk home, then I walked back to collect it with another dc. I've really appreciated that pleasant, not stressed out, chatting with both of them.

I'm going to have to write to a few parents tomorrow about their dc lack of work being sent in. Hate doing that. The majority are really reasonable but we don't know what's going on in their lives so I worry about stressing them out.

Regarding the books, did anyone ever read Flowers for Algernon? I've got it on my shelf and I remember being really moved by it when I was about 14 years old. Hoping to persuade dd to read it.

I am BAME but there has been no talk at school of BAME staff being vulnerable.

Nah, new one - 'Would you send your child back in September if there was no social distancing'. All about 'no risk to children' and 'human right to education'.

People just don't want to think about the risk to adults in school.

MsAwesomeDragon, according to the info from DS2's school yesterday, our LA is providing school transport. In our case the school organised out of catchment buses will running free of charge. All socially distanced. If he does go back, DH will take him though. DS2 is concerned about bus behaviour. Presumably they will insist on face coverings.

LA also running taxis for my school but that's SEN so a bit different. One pupil per taxi, disinfected afterwards.

We had the first day back with actual students today, other than the KW kids. The student in my class who hadn't been in before was pleased to be back, then horrified when he realised he had to spend the whole day in one place. To be fair it's a very small bubble with only 1 other student.

I've just read the no social distancing in September thread and it's really upset me. They actually don't give a flying fuck about the risks to us, do they? Given the government's track record, it will be rushed in sooner rather than later.and we must work until Dec 31st if we can get another job.

cantkeepawayforever I just ventured into that thread and have retreated, horrified. Never have I come across so many self-centred and short-sighted people in my life.
And it's not that they "don't want to think about the risk to adults in schools." They quite clearly could not give a shit about them.
And apparently, if we don't want to take the "risk" that they think is either non-existent or are otherwise quite happy for us to take, we can quit.
They're so stupid that they haven't worked out that the schools they are so keen to provide childcare for their kids, won't be operating due to an even great shortage of teachers if many more teachers resign than already are.

One pupil per taxi, disinfected afterwards.
Whose benefit is that for? The children? Who will then be mixing at close quarters with many others once they get to school? Or the taxi driver's? In which case, why is their protection put so much higher than that of the teachers who have to teach children with no such consideration?

Ignore the September thread. It ahs attracted some very well known corona deniers. And also bash the NHS.

Got bored many of them in the Brexit Arms and need a new hobby.