The Eight Republic - half term over - primaries under pressure- solidarity

[StaffAssociationRepresentative]

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 shall continue to follow the blood covid info with interest then until something peer reviewed comes out.

This week's challenge is to work out how whether in their planning for social distancing in the hall, where they will be teaching pupils, they have accounted for 2 of our supported pupils being in. All our manager said was 'I doubt they've thought about that' when asked how we would provide our usual support and remain socially distant. It is easier with our key-worker supported student as we've been able to do work on the whiteboard with them. But these two students are an entirely different kettle of fish as unlike the key-worker ones, they actually get on with their work and don't make a fuss so we need to be closer to them in order to see that they are ok with the work.

It will be fun I am sure.

I had a look at the (#2000) zoom thread and then gave my head a wobble and backed away. Time for some gardening I think before the horror of Monday starts again.

I made a mistake and ventured to wider mumsnet... really shouldnt have. People really dont care about safety of adults in school, just that their lives are back to normal. So grateful to have a wonderful PTA who have been so supportive and organised treats for the staff room and encouraging messages.

Can i provide some wine and soft drinks to you all? Trying to keep a lid on my anxiety as i'm back in tomorrow.

getting schools opened and lockdown gone, and the country they live in. Not sure what you think neuro.

@piggy

If I see one more thread saying I live in G or here in G. I may faint.

Post not thread but you get the idea.

We bought a new shed on Friday, so will be ‘pottering around the garden’ putting it up and clearing away the old one on Monday when it stops raining. We’re both teachers so good job he’s been working this morning and will be tonight, and I’ll be working this afternoon and evening and dealing with issues all day tomorrow.

All I can say is people on MN are bored today...

Soooooooooooo many duplicate threads.

riga

People really dont care about safety of adults in school, just that their lives are back to normal.

No they don’t. And I don’t think they realise how many adults are involved in running a school.
It’s not just half a dozen teachers. We have 50+ members of staff and only 20 of them are teachers. This is before we think about deliveries and other contractors who come onto the site.

Yup Rigga

Don't forget that on mn you can name change and it doesn't show on your own thread too. Which I agree with as it's easy to be outed here and I have had to nc before. But something to keep in mind.

I'd love to potter in the garden but it's appalling weather!

They are a disgrace on some of those threads. I know so many people having an easier time working from home right now and they get no grief. Mind you, half of them work from home regularly and tell me it's an easy life for them anyway.

NeurotrashWarrior

I think that I may have mentioned it before but when you think about name changes etc. it is interesting how many of the same posters show up in the groups on the same types of threads.

Flamingo I actually think, with all our extra staff for SALT etc, and many part time people aswell as specialist lunchtime staff, we may actually have only twice as many children as staff.

It's not just the issue around putting staff at risk.

Logistically this is going to be very complicated going forward. You simply cannot solve an issue of spacing and staffing easily; any of the staff could be sent home to self isolate for two weeks at any point even if those who are pregnant, have asthma, diabetes and ms are back in school. In our setting we are going to need a pool of staff.

And when they shout about progress lost, teaching children they way we did and with the same "progress" is going to be extremely hard.

Yes fripp

The thread about concerns about not being open in September, with the letter to MPs isn't too bad. Blame being correctly laid at the door of the government mainly.

I don't know if this article a friend shared stands up to scrutiny but it's in Germany and about schools and viral load.

skwawkbox.org/2020/06/03/new-study-shows-no-statistically-significant-difference-in-viral-load-between-children-and-adults-and-that-opening-schools-will-drive-new-peak/

Interesting article Neuro.

Well, I'm now going to contradict myself!

This is a scientific response. That research has not been peer reviewed, there's a couple of queries about the methodology.

The answer to whether children are as infectious, is no one knows, yet.

www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-a-preprint-looking-at-the-amount-of-virus-from-those-with-covid-19-in-different-age-groups/

NeurotrashWarrior

The thing is though that both papers show that more research needs to be done.

I've wondered this myself; as children are more likely to be asymptomatic, are they therefore less likely to spread it? It's also therefore really hard to test the theory. Which is why we must look out for outbreaks in schools and the contact tracing needs to work really well.

Cross post fripp, yes definitely.

Sadly we are a bit of an experiment.

I'm starting to think we should all just begin to teach live lessons. They are the gold standard and what everyone on here (not this thread!) seems to want.
And then see what the next set of complaints is.
Because I'm quite sure it wouldn't stop.

Mis course it won't they can't help themselves. They really do think we are in the customer service industry.

Mistressiggi

The response that has stuck with me about live lessons was the complaint that the teacher was enthusiastic enough.

There have also been several posts about schools that have had to put in rules that the parents are not allowed to stay in the room due to interfering with the lessons.

*was not enthusiastic enough