The Tenth Republic - what is the new normal?

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If you are fed up with cakes and biscuits there is now a cheeseboard on offer

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Geoff Barton has said that year group bubbles seem realistic and workable for secondary

www.tes.com/news/coronavirus-heads-welcome-whole-year-bubbles-secondaries

Thinking about my school, we teach in year halves, so maybe we’d only need a half year group bubble.

Bournemouth is ridiculous. I'm afraid the photos just made me laugh though. Not the photos of crap on the beach, but all those people rammed in together. Numpties. Not a fun time.

There were a group of 'lads' this morning in my village shop buying 'supplies for a day by the river', so we've avoided going there too.

I think year group bubbles are workable in that it's the only remotely feasible solution. But how does lunch work if 7 year groups need to eat separately? and what about staff? does each staff member get given a year group? (if so pity the y9 bubblers)

We teach in half year groups to noble, for years 7-9. So they could have half year bubbles, which still have about 100 kids in. But years 10-13 will have to be full yeargroup because of options.

They do not social distance while walking around school. I have been in today (1 child got individual tuition today, nobody else came in), and the year 10 kids were just wandering round the site as normal. Social distancing in the classroom, because they're constantly reminded about it, but the second they're out the door they abandon any pretence at 2m (or even 1m+). At this point it seems like they think as long as they aren't actively touching each other they're fine, which I don't believe it's the case (I may have heard through the grapevine that there are more cases in the local hospital again, but it hasn't been in the local press so...)

FFS. This bus is full of people who I doubt are using it for essential travel. And at least half of them have taken their masks off. Guessing half of them are off down the beach.

@Phineyj

Oh wait, they're more expensive than NASUWT. Cheaper than NEU thought I think. They should all do sliding scale subs!

£186 is the part time rate for neu. So expensive

And it’s out of school hours so it’s definitely not your fault.

My DS is in primary and they’re not serving food, everyone has to bring in a packed lunch and eat in classrooms. So that’s potentially a solution?

Come over to the NASUWT, Honey! They won’t push ‘ban the booths’ on you....

My school is 12 form entry and almost all kids come on buses, some on double deckers. That will be fucking big bubbles.

I'll have the year 12 bubble please

If kids eat in classrooms, who's supervising? We need to wee at some point!

Has someone posted the phe stats this week yet?

44 this week compare to 28 hospitals

Bubbles don't work if you teach more than one subject.

We are not paid for our lunch time so I am not supervising.

Lunch duties are voluntary and are paid usually.

I’m interested as to how any of this works in secondary. I’m likely to be teaching 2 subjects next year and I’m part time. I just can’t see how it works. Certainly not for teacher safety. Presumably we’ll be moving between bubbles.

Will check out nasuwt

Nobel quite a mixture actually; it's clear there's a revolt against the momentum neu lot.

MS TEAMS question: is it possible to disable both Chat and individual participants' ability to Unmute themselves?

(Asking for a friend who's just had her first go at a virtual assembly for lower school..... )

We are not paid for our lunch time so I am not supervising.

That’s fine, they can be unsupervised and if your classroom is trashed by P5 then please fill out a behaviour incident report.

revolt against the momentum neu lot.

That’s heartening. I wonder if that’s the ATL influence.

Emma Hardy suggested as new Shadow Ed Sec on twitter as she was a teacher. That would be nice.

I wonder how this will be picked apart by some?

schoolsweek.co.uk/suspected-covid-19-outbreaks-in-schools-almost-doubles/

if your classroom is trashed by P5 then please fill out a behaviour incident report

I feel sorry for people who work in schools where you can't leave a class load of children for a lunchtime without a classroom being trashed.

I think that was what we were told the other day?

Possibly Nobel, though I also wonder if more are getting involved in politics on fb now. I've never thought about joining any of the fb groups prior to Covid and also the gender crap.

virtual assembly for lower school

If you don’t want the kids unmuted or chatting, wouldn’t this be better as a pre-recorded video?

I saw something about if you’re broadcasting you do a teams live event instead of a meeting but I don’t know if schools have the right licence.

Some classrooms they're not legally allowed to be unsupervised (tech, sci) due to the risk of injury with equipment.