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

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Good luck to everyone expecting year 19s back in today!

10s obviously

At least 25 year olds would understand social distancing.

I did couch to 5k, got to 5k and haven't run since. Hahaha. I hate it.

I'm basically just really fucking bored of the same walks. I can't be arsed to leave the house just to walk around the same boring block.

@MsAwesomeDragon I was just writing a quiz so took this for you. In question click the 3 dots

Still waiting (v anxiously it must be said) for our head's plans on year 10/12 , now that it has been communicated that eh ahs obviously decided the face to face interviews already done weren't' enough.

No one outside of staffroom on MN seems to get that headteacher are actually very compliant people who generally do what is asked of them by the govt, some rather more enthusiastically than their workforce would like...

That’s how they get to be headteachers, yes men.

Nervous about turning my work laptop on. Gonna bite the bullet.

At least 25 year olds would understand social distancing.
I guess the ones that whisper to each other in my Masters seminars will have to text each other instead now.

Based on my neighbours who are 25, they may understand social distancing, but don't necessarily practice it.

Thanks @mumsneedwine I used it this morning! Year 10 now have quadratic equations to solve on their quiz today 😁

Do we know which day this week the details of the shite summer catch up plan are going to be released??

tomorrow appu, I need to source some chocolate and wine in anticipation of the news...

@bea

Thank you-I’ll get the gin on standby

I’ve just just lost a whole post. Short version is the irony of schools being expected to close the gap between disadvantaged and advantaged pupils by a government who has deliberately widened the gap between haves and have nots. There’s a heap of economic decisions and policies that widen inequality and that’s fine but schools must try and overcome the fallout of socioeconomic deprivation in an overcrowded underfunded classroom. Meh

Y10 back in school today- I'm not expected in until Wednesday though. I have had some work from some Y10s I haven't heard anything from since Easter, though- so that's a positive!

Apparently everything is "working well so far" but I'm expecting a more detailed update when they leave at the end of the morning!

Y12 are coming in for the afternoon, so not back in yet!

Our year 12s are in this week. I haven't heard anything about how it's going. I'm sure people will let me know at the end of the day

@TheHoneyBadger

I’ve just just lost a whole post. Short version is the irony of schools being expected to close the gap between disadvantaged and advantaged pupils by a government who has deliberately widened the gap between haves and have nots. There’s a heap of economic decisions and policies that widen inequality and that’s fine but schools must try and overcome the fallout of socioeconomic deprivation in an overcrowded underfunded classroom. Meh

I do feel like this is the first time Tories have ever cared about disadvantaged students!

@Beawillalwaysbetopdog do you know what time? Will it be the press briefing or in Parliament?

I worry that no one looks at institutions as part of a joined up society or sees that institutions operate within a society and are directly effected by wider societal issues. What is that called? On the people level it would be individualism (pretending it’s all choices and personal agency and ignoring societal effects). Not sure if there’s a term for expressing seeing institutions in the same light?

Eg if schools are unable to function really well, if nhs is crumbling etc it’s a societal issue concerning governance, funding, taxes, changing demographics etc. But people are encouraged instead to blame the individual institutions and the frontline (least powerful) workers instead.

Maybe it’s just called Tory rhetoric?

No one ever lets me know how things are going at school.

One of the most frustrating things about this whole mess is how SHIT people are at replying to emails. If I was in school I'd have the answer to these questions in 20 seconds by popping into their room. Now I send an email that they ignore for 4 days, then I finally get annoyed at ring them on Teams - and there they are sitting at their desks. REPLY TO THE EMAIL YOU TWATS.

ineed - no idea what time sorry, I'm guessing if they think it's good PR it will be the briefing and if not snuck out earlier (but not early enough for anyone to read it properly and ask an awkward question in briefing).

So, probably the latter unless it's all schools open fully and over the summer so those lazy bastard teachers have their 20 weeks holiday cancelled.

I've just discovered the ncetm lessons for maths (obviously maths) - OMG, there is a teacher, but not a twee one like Oak. Yay.

@ohthegoats I went to Shanghai in November with some of them!

I’ve used Oak for English with DS as his school have stopped sending anything for Y1 now some have gone back. It has been amazing for him and he loves the over enthusiastic teacher 🤣🤣🤣. I’ve used white rose for maths though...

Now we've bought Power Maths workbooks for them to have at home, I've been teaching entirely to the book. Which is shit in normal times, but fine now frankly. Have used all sorts of resources and cobbled powerpoints together from White Rose, Classroom Secrets, Twinkl.. and anything else I can get my hands on.

I quite like doing it, but it's so time consuming. Then I have issues with the visualiser and just want to throw all the tech out of the window.

Sneaky update to secondary guidance - schools can if they can do it safely, hold face to face meetings with other year groups.