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

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Hi Noble, glad to see you back.

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

I'm not sure any emoji is good enough to convey the return of the infamous noble, but this is the closest:

So nice to see you back @noblegiraffe!

Thanks to everyone for you ideas earlier - have some things to try tomorrow and have also learnt how to show a ppt AND still see hands up which I couldn’t do before (had to have my phone logged into call too!!!)

Just found this:
dfemedia.blog.gov.uk/2020/06/03/supporting-disadvantaged-children/

www.theguardian.com/education/2020/jun/17/government-to-fund-private-tutors-for-english-schools

[quote Beawillalwaysbetopdog]www.theguardian.com/education/2020/jun/17/government-to-fund-private-tutors-for-english-schools[/quote]
Is this the Summer thing they've been promising?

My vulnerable kids don’t have internet access. So this is going to be great for them.

[quote Beawillalwaysbetopdog]www.theguardian.com/education/2020/jun/17/government-to-fund-private-tutors-for-english-schools[/quote]
This sounds like it.

Interesting, that it’s tutors, not teachers.

I bet the funding made available will NOT be at a teacher rate.

Prediction 1: kids who did no work during lockdown will be taken out of PE to do extra maths and English.

Prediction 2: there won’t be enough tutors or money and parents will complain their kid isn’t selected.

Prediction 3: it will not be 30 minute sessions 3-5 times a week as suggested.

Prediction 4: the burden of telling tutors what to teach will fall on teachers.

Prediction 5: children’s education will not be ‘turbo-charged’ by this intervention.

Maybe I’ll be pleasantly surprised.

Thanks for the warm welcome!

Interesting, that it’s tutors, not teachers.

I bet the funding made available will NOT be at a teacher rate.

*When I did tuition circa 2005. We were paid £20 p/h.

As I have said before though kids literally ran out of the gates at 3pm so they didn't have to do it.

They all got 2 hours a night with a break for six weeks.*

1. the focus will be entirely upon English and maths
2. some of the tutors will be shit
3. rural areas will not have any or enough tutors
4. pupils in London will pull further ahead

10. any strides made by selected pupils will be put down entirely to tutoring 'initiative' and not teaching.

11. the students won't attend in many cases.

Just seen summer holiday camps and Saturday school.

Poor bastards.

I disagree about the PE noble. I think they will be taken out of an option subject at GCSE which makes me sad.

Wow noble and piggy it's like you can see the future!!!

A year long programme, where will all these tutors come from?

Our local schools are having to reduce teachers under the budgets for next year, bit grim that the schools will then be given funding to pay for tutors.

Thinking of resigning now sot hat I can then become a tutor!

But I think I might be too experienced...

I'm a tutor. I'm also a qualified teacher. I don't work through an agency ( approved or otherwise) so probably wouldn't be eligible for whatever scheme they come up with anyway.
I currently charge £37-42 per hour depending on travel distance to the student (though obviously only teaching online right now).
Not sure how I'd feel about this. I'd actually quite like a small group in maths in school come September but I wouldn't be able to do it for less than my normal going rate.
I've also got a waiting list and need to pick up with some of my current students that I'm not doing online teaching with so probably wouldn't be able to manage it anyhow. It would just be nice to feel a bit more of a part of a team sometimes and do some more mainstream hours.

I'm interested in what you mean by 'burden of teachers telling tutors what to teach'
I ask ( via parents) for half termly teaching plans for students so that I can keep an eye on what they cover in class as some students will be certain they haven't covered something when actually they have'. I work with a lot of students with mild learning difficulties and their organisational skills and memories aren't always brilliant.
I don't need individual lesson plans, just outlines so that I know for example that when it says 'percentages' they are covering increases and decreases but not reverse percentages yet. It is particularly useful for KS3 as schools differ so much in what they teach when and how far they go with topics ( maths). KS4 is easier as the GCSE syllabus is so well defined.
I've always assumed that as these documents exist anyway, it isn't too much of a difficulty to email a copy. Is it more of a burden then that? Is there something easier I should be asking for?

The kids who need this intervention (mostly) won’t turn up.

I think you may be many years more experienced that what will be used and required!

I don't mid at all sending tutors info , such as ' we are doing Macbeth' but some ask for full SOWS and lesson plans and stuff and it is a bit draining. We have a few who send us marking!!

I think I would be wary of a tutor who just didn't get the vagaries of the new English GCSE and still taught like the 1990s but that's an English specific issue ...

It’ll be contracted out to Kip McGrath or Explore or whichever company donates most to the Tories

Surely in primary schools a large number of the vulnerable children and those that most need to catch up struggle to keep working after lunch as it is - they are not going to be able to complete extra work after 3pm!

It’ll be contracted out to Kip McGrath or Explore or whichever company donates most to the Tories

This x 1000.

I regularly (every year) do a catch up after school to help close the gap ... for the ones who potentially could reach expected. For the first few weeks we have tears, ‘Mum says I don’t have to come’, parents saying ‘he’ll come next week ...’ etc etc They calm down a bit when the word gets out about the squash and biscuits but it’s hard. Especially when it’s unpaid!