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

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We've now got 6 teachers who aren't with bubbles.

4 of them have risk factors that mean our head is reluctant to have them in child contact roles, including asthma and most significantly for our school, are BAME. So, we've got 2 teachers 'left over', of whom I'm one.

We'd need 14 teachers to cover bubbles for the children in the year groups currently not in school.

Oh, and we have no LSAs left who are allowed back according to our risk assessment.

So, it would be me with a bubble of erm... 105, and one other with a bubble of 105. Haha. On our own, with no loo breaks.

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

Sorry, I've been trying to stay away for my mh!

Is this going to be across all schools?

Goats, you just need a nearby church hall or football stadium and a flipchart and you'll be fine :) Plus maybe a few buckets and a tent?

Did anyone see the get one teacher for each y7 and 8 form and teach them every subject thread? I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. I'm not sure what I was more horrified about - the idea of me teaching PE/English/Art/Spanish etc or me the year after trying to make them unlearn everything and start again!

Anyone read this?

www.theguardian.com/education/2020/jun/15/2m-children-in-uk-have-done-almost-no-school-work-in-lockdown

I can just imagine the threads being started...

Sigh.

But, actually, it's UCL, who have an agenda.

Plus, could anyone consider that some of those private school kids are doing too much??

Beawillalwaysbetopdog

Whoever wrote that has had some fun playing with the stats.

They are all over the place.

And although I only had a quick scan it doesn't mention those pupils that have just not bothered to do the work.

Well Frip, that will be our fault for not making the work engaging enough, or for not doing it live, or for not sending enough emails/phoning pupils to chase it up

I do think the online lessons thing was a bit . There was a good link posted the other day (can't remember where, it might have been this thread), which said that there was no point explaining things live and the only thing worth doing was a workshop type thing where they could ask questions/do problems.

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

Bloody Guardian!

Have any of your seen this?

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/michaelt1979.wordpress.com/2020/06/12/are-teachers-paid-for-the-holidays/amp/

He seems to have put a great deal of thought into it, but I still don’t agree!

Appuskidu

Its the same old same old.

But it doesn't explain why I have to put in a form to came payment for doing holiday sessions (catch up and transition).

I can only think that he has never done any holiday sessions.

*Claim not came

If that article was correct, wouldn't teachers be able to claim paid holiday at the end of a maternity leave?

I asked that question when I was pregnant and was told by union that teachers don't get holidays they just don't go to school when the children aren't there! This was 15 yrs ago!

@Beawillalwaysbetopdog

I just seen the guardian article and am
Cross.

You can't compare what a 5 year old and a 10 year old could do. You also would potentially have two full time working patents trying to juggle wfh.

Also, we weren't supposed to be doing online lessons??? Didn't it say that in the guidance?

I also don't think for a lot of primary pupils it's too much of an issue. There are some I'd be worried about but definitely not all. We start a year or two earlier than mother countries. And they'd brought so many things down a year or so. I keep looking at what they're covering in y2 in disbelief, especially the spag.

I was in school for my year 10s today and got chatting to a colleague.
He said their kids' primary school have not been in contact regularly, and have set no work - just directed them towards BBC Bitesize and later oak academy. I was genuinely horrified as I didn't think that any school was really doing that - thought it was just people not getting the emails or exaggerating. But my colleague is not the bullshitter type.... Astounded and shocked.

And wrt the amount of work. I wouldn't want my primary aged children to do more than 3 hours sat at a desk work. My year 1 child was doing about 2 - 3 hours, and the year 4 fairly consistent doing 3. That's plenty! Then exercise, play, Lego, reading and a bit of screen time....

Yeah there is no acknowledgement that a live lesson is very intense.

They dont need more than an hour or so if it's 1-1 or 1-2. Too intense. Mine did barely anything.

Are they getting stuff leaked to them via Teacher Tapp? McInerney writes for the Grun, runs TT and has a hand in Oak. I tell you, it's just a way of getting everyone doing what those academies do.

Having just tried to explain 3d Pythagoras and trig today via Google hangouts (even using my homemade visualiser), I wish I'd gone for a Corbett maths video or similar. Live internet lessons aren't always the best way of being understood! I don't know why they are seen as best. Often a well produced online video followed by opportunity to ask questions and discuss problems can work better than teacher's inexperienced use of technology!

We've not been contact with individual kids. SLT have if they are vulnerable, I spoke to a mum who realised her child is a pain in the arse. But I set video lessons from the Monday after the easter holidays. Not everyone in my school did - most were just linking to bitesize or uploading stuff from classroom secrets. Pointless, the kids dont have printers. Everything had to be just paper and pencil. It's easy now, but time consuming. I do all the work on a visualiser so they can see that I can do it on/with anything. I do some of it in felt tip pen, on lined paper, plain, back of a piece of wrapping paper once - just wanted to prove that if they could see the vid on a parents phone, they could do the work. Me and my child did science lessons on buoyancy and put the pictures up of what we used.

Nit setting anything at all was slack. Although that's what Oak was intended for. My deputy told me not to do it at one point but I ignored her - important for kids to hear your voice I think. Anyway.

I don't know why individual phone calls to just your bog standard kids is seen as such a Big Thing.

Trouble with pre made online videos (which I agree are usually better) is the lagging of streaming.

That's true but then I got glitching/ sound break up/ using Google hangouts anyway!