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

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Oh for goodness sake

But the guidance still mainly talks about Y10 and Y12, there is just a throwaway line about being able to get pupils from other year groups in. And it does just seem to mention 'a' meeting for these other year groups. Do you think this is their massive catch up plan!

Anything else remotely helpful or us it still vague?

Thread started about year 10 and 12 now. It was fairly obviously under the radar up til now!

I assume it is just that line that has been added.

www.gov.uk/government/publications/preparing-for-the-wider-opening-of-schools-from-1-june/planning-guide-for-secondary-schools

I’m in work today - have seen 3 lots of 1/4 classes - 6/7 in my A level (nice lesson, watched a French short film, discussed the fall of capitalism with a girl who has submitted next to nothing for ten weeks but evidently kept up!) - 4/6 in my first BTEC (work had been set by my partner teacher so they went on computers) and 5/5 in my second BTEC (short lesson bit, nice catch up).

In between I just sat in my room and didn’t venture out - to be honest, to be in a room (basically, in a whole block) on my own in silence was AMAZING.

Now I have to do that whole day again tomorrow, and next Monday and next Tuesday. Ugh.

Primary Schools can also have more year groups in as long as you don't need any money to do so.

www.gov.uk/government/publications/preparing-for-the-wider-opening-of-schools-from-1-june/planning-guide-for-primary-schools

Just reread the secondary guidelines. So many secondary schools seem to have gone pretty above and beyond which, once more, is leading to pissed off parents.

I see we've been told how to decide which bits of the curriculum we deliver remotely, and which are best delivered in school.

Handy considering I made that decision for Term 6 before the Easter holidays, and had already decided about September back in April too.

@Piggywaspushed

Just reread the secondary guidelines. So many secondary schools seem to have gone pretty above and beyond which, once more, is leading to pissed off parents.

Yes. My school is having 1 full day a week for the next four weeks for year 10’s and continuing with kw and vulnerable provision.

Considerably more than some face to face contact before summer but with two year groups only it’s doable so why not.

As for September communication to staff and parents makes clear they wish they knew but have no idea.

Also had visualiser problems on teams @ohthegoats where it wouldn’t focus. I managed to work it out in the end.

I also have to have my phone dialled in so that I can see chat and hands up when sharing my screen with a ppt for example. That seems annoying but I can’t see a way around it?

We've got one teacher at home who has to have his phone and his laptop dialed in - one camera works, one mic works. Helpful.

for example, practical subjects requiring more on site contact time with teachers,” she explained

Thanks Sallie Stanton of Bedford Free School for the egg sucking lesson.

It’s useful to set them work to do at home that gives them opportunities to practice what has been modelled in the classroom.

This is revolutionary shit man.

Primary Schools can also have more year groups in as long as you don't need any money to do so.

Where does it say that-I’m being slow!?

Oh this is giving me the rage:

we will use well-structured curriculum booklets that organise and sequence learning carefully. The booklets will provide the continuity of learning across virtual and face-to-face learning. Students will be able to work on the booklets at home and in school (with staff able to check the work completed at home)

So basically it's Reach Academy trying to flog their booklets again.

Where is that from, ohthegoats ?

@Appuskidu in the Primary School guidance linked above, it is in Section 4

Sorry if anyone works for Reach, I'm sure it's great, but all I see everywhere these days is the same 15 people hawking their ideas and products. It's so boring. There are 500,000 people in this profession, some of us might have different or better ideas, most of us know how to implement these to best serve our kids. In that report, the same people as in all the other stuff. Loads of it is patronising and egg sucking.

I have noticed that going on a lot.

It is as if they know more than we do....

Is anyone watching the daily briefing? I heard someone ask a question about key worker children over the summer but missed the answer thanks to my family being loud and moaning about the wifi. Did anyone hear the answer in detail?

What will the government do to help key workers with childcare over the summer? The normal options - summer camps, grandparents and holidays abroad - aren’t available?
Raab says that is a good question. But he says the government will fund summer activities.

Guardian live is a good one if you miss it.

The government will fund summer activities so that I can go into school to rearrange my classroom, and sit at home planning booklets for September's blended learning. Excellent.

Today's guidance updates about getting more years in if you can/ offering face to face meetings if you can will have exactly the effect the government want - some schools will be able to offer more provision and some wont, meaning lots more angry parents and the blame being shifted solely onto schools.
They should be giving directives that are clear and consistent across every school. What a shit show!

So glad my school isn't doing zoom. Lockdown led to the discovery the mic doesn't work on my laptop :)

riga he actually said the government 'have already funded'. I commented on this on another thread. No idea what that meant.

Personally, I could read Rabb's face like a book!

'Shit! A school question! How fast can I talk while saying nothing at all that means anything??'