The Ninth Republic - stand by for the return of Year 10

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A plastic screen between 2 kids on the same desk would be a good way of getting more kids into classrooms.
Putting them on each end of a desk would make those 2 kids 1m away from each other, but in my classroom they would then be far closer than 1m away from the kids on the desks next to them. We do it that way for tests, and I literally can't walk between the desks. B

modelled on the popular NHS volunteer scheme launched in March

No one I know who signed up for this was ever called to do anything. People who volunteered for local support groups, yes - NHS, no. It was almost as if it was a massive data harvesting thing.

Anyway, if this happens teachers, we'll be addressing misconceptions out the wazoo right throughout Term 1 and 2.

@RigaBalsam I did try and sign up for that. But my DBS (on the update service) wasn't considered recent enough!

modelled on the popular NHS volunteer scheme launched in March.

So if this happens I can already see the fallout.

Retirees and those that left won't be back, A huge amount of teachers will just say no.

So the government, the media and various arseholes (like the ones on MN) will just blame teachers for not doing more.

I agree Fripp it will be because the lazy teachers can't be bothered to help

I'd totally put my hand up to being lazy during my holidays.

Temperature of staff and children being taken at my secondary school.

There’s probably nothing to stop the parents either not sending the test back or saying it was negative when it wasn’t

It needs to be make a criminal offence to knowingly send a child to school with a temperature or a new cough (or any other common symptom) until this is over. It will, potentially, kill people. We should be taking temperatures as they walk through the door and the first question out of our mouths should be 'did your mum give you calpol or any other medicine this morning or before you went to bed last night?'. That would weed out loads of 'em.

On another note, if you have the covid Zoe app, have a look at some of their webinars (also on youtube). They are trying to develop digital diagnosis of covid with a few to selling it. Seems to me it would be ideal for schools. Child coughs, SLT diagnoses there and then. If child is deemed to have it, they are sent home with a letter saying they won't be allowed back in school until X date. An added reminder about the child being out in public and parents being fined if picked up by a truanting officer would also be helpful. And a few high profile, high figure fines (say £1k) would stop and make a few parents think. If you don't have the app, download it and start doing it everyday 'cos I can only assume the more people that do it, the quicker the diagnosing tool will arrive.

it is shocking the attitude on mn. Anti SD at all for kids. They dont care about the teachers or any other vulnerable parents etc.
I dont like the fact the bubble doesnt pop while waiting for the test results. I think the other parents should know so they can take kuds out.
You can see from purple's post that parents wont keep them off if they have a temp/cough over the weekend.
Also it's hard to tell about a cough (dd1 has coughed a few times in the last 2w but i wouldnt say she has a cough it's more a tickle maybe and we havent been out at all).
Bubbles of 30 will constantly have a child with a temp or cough - mine get one after every cold and last for weeks. So if they went back in because they were better but still coughing you wouldnt be able to tell about a new cough.

Hopefully by sept there might be more info on whether kids generally spread it.

I don’t think the attitude on MN reflects the wider community on this. We have approx 20% of the eligible year groups in. Could probably open for the whole school and still have bubbles under 15, the uptake is so low.

Keepdistance, I agree and really hope we get more research data about children spreading it.

Parent here - my DS had a slight cough and the school asked us to collect him (despite no temperature, and cold symptoms). They asked us to get a test and send the result before he could come in.
Our district rate is 1 in 16,000 by the way...
But it is enforceable in this way.

We do temperature checks for adults and staff. Adults have to wear a mask and gloves when they are taking anyone's temperature.

Our Y10 are going to be nearly 75% in next week (1/4 a day), do other schools have such high percentages in?

I've been told we are expecting 95% of our year 10s to come in on their allotted days.

60% expected at my school.

95%! Honestly, I despair of kids today sometimes. We have weeks where there are exams on, and when a students has an exam in the afternoon, they don’t need to attend any lessons in the morning, yet they always come to class! Not one of the classes they have an exam in. When I was 17 I wouldn’t have gone to a lesson I could have legitimately have missed 😂

We only have approx 10% in over all eligible year groups

We were originally just interviewing ours but now the head has other plans. Which we don't know. Natch.

I don't know whether the 95% will turn up though - just that that was what SLT are expecting....

85% of our parents want their child to return when we open in a fortnight. We are opening on a rota, and are allowed up to 1/3rd of the children in at any one time.

But we aren't doing 'bubbles' in Wales, social distancing instead.

So that's 1/4 of our class in each day over 4 days by the looks of things wich a Friday for PPA and cleaning.

If my class's takeup numbers stay as they are, I could have 3 days of children and give more time and effort to online check ins and the online learning. I'm not looking forward to the prospect of a full 4 days in and then having to juggle all the online learning/feedback and any checking in with kids on the Friday.

And I'm still unimpressed we're extending our term by a week as in theory I have a hotel booking in the UK what would have been the first week of the holidays and is now the last week of term.

On the plus side, MNet hasn't been full of people debating end of school year gifts for teachers or not - that's usually rife about now.

@CallmeAngelina we are temp checking staff and students (secondary).

My kids primary isn’t but has a thermal thermometer thing they use if concerned. But they are also opening up to ALL students over the next three weeks 🙄

The holiday thing, they don't seem
to twig quite how many women are teachers and TAs and that there's a disproportionately high percentage of school staff with their own children.

Neurotrashwarrior.
Surely roughly equal numbers of men and women have children?

@EducatingArti

Neurotrashwarrior. Surely roughly equal numbers of men and women have children?

Think there are far higher numbers of females working in primary than males though? Bit less pronounced in secondary.

Amanda Spielman has been on sky news and Robert Halfon on sky this morning. I can't stand the way she speaks, a warped version of Fred Elliott.

Who was it asked the Nightingale equivalent?

According to Halfon they should be called the Turin schools.