The Tenth Republic - what is the new normal?

[StaffAssociationRepresentative]

You are most welcome to this school staff support thread to get us through stressful times. It is meant for school staff. Baiters and bashers can jog on somewhere else.

If you are NOT staff and just have a general education query please start your own thread.

You can play here only if you are a member of one the following groups-

-ABBA - anti bashers and baiting association
-SWAB - school workers against bashers
-SWOT - school workers opposing teacherbashers
-STARS - schoolworkers together against ranting + slurs

Other requirements for staff room entry include the ability to find the staff room, the ability to find a clean mug in the staff room, knowledge of the photocopier codes, and the ability to sniff out where the toffee vodka is hidden.

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

If you come with a stick to beat us with then please do so elsewhere and not in the staffroom.

[DrMadelineMaxwell]

Indeed!

I predict 'Flipped learning' will be in there.

[ohthegoats]

Lessons from China?

Have a society that values education and supports children to do their very best?

Can we sort out British society so that works by September?

[ohthegoats]

Been thinking on the 'just do every lesson set since...' for catch up.

That's what grads could do. Just sit next (2m away) to children while they plod through all the lessons that either schools have set, or Oak and Bitesize have set, since mid April. Ta da.

[DrMadelineMaxwell]

Indeed. The children of mine that would need to catch up are the ones who've done bugger online since March. Which, in my y6 class in a leafy village school is about 80% of my class.
Hearbreaking to spend so long making resources to find that they aren't doing any of it and only a small core are doing anything.

[ohthegoats]

Can't remember if I've posted it before, but a teacher in my school has a child in my class. She's 'alright', but no brain box. I saw the teacher a couple of weeks ago in school - child hasn't even looked at the class page. Great.

I've had 4 emails now with work to be marked.

[ohthegoats]

It's not even really 'catch up' in our case though. It's more 'didn't keep it bubbling along, so will have forgotten stuff'. There has been a small bit of new learning, particularly in maths, but we've already put that into next year's curriculum to make sure we cover it again.

It's the children who say 'what's a noun?' in September - if they haven't done any work since March, it's going to be harder for us and them to get it back to where it was.

I don't speak for secondary on this one! Expect that'll be harder.

[ohthegoats]

Can you tell I'm busy writing reports posting here emptying the dishwasher faffing about September curriculum maps.

[cheesecurdsandgravy]

@ohthegoats

I’ve had two teachers in my school tell me to my face they told their KS3 children not to bother with my subject (MFL) as it doesn’t matter. 🖕

[noblegiraffe]

The thing about schools being able to direct the money to tutors means they will inevitably prioritise maths and English.

And maths and English are the subjects that kids are most likely to have done at home.

Poor other subjects.

[TheHoneyBadger]

Can you imagine what we could do with £50 pw per pp student? We could reduce class sizes with that ffs and they want to throw it at overpriced tutoring companies who’ll pay unqualified people £12ph?

Unbelievable. What a waste

[Lostmyshityear9]

lost where official have you got that from?
@Piggywaspushed

I was quoting someone further up the thread, wasn't me, Miss. Honest.

[SansaSnark]

I agree that for most kids, catch up will just need to be someone sitting in a room with them, making them actually do the work (or at least look at it and try it).

We have done new learning (secondary science) so if they haven't looked at it at all, they will have missed a whole topic- which we won't have time to revisit for Y9/10.

I can think of a few kids, even with a 1:1 tutor standing over them who will still try everything to get out of actually attempting the work.

[Piggywaspushed]

Ah, OK lost

[Piggywaspushed]

I am not at all behind in English. In my option subject I am and it's a worry. Can't imagine who could tutor it though.

[TheHoneyBadger]

Our pp register is huge. I’m tempted to check how many we’ve got and times that by £50 pw and work out how many teachers that would pay for but I think I’d weep. Schools will pay the actual wages and governments 75% will go straight in the profit pot of their mates companies.

[NeurotrashWarrior]

Blended learning:

Optimised

Face to face

Webinars

Simulations

Coaching

I had to google what it meant; still not hugely clearer but those words popped out!

[NeurotrashWarrior]

Tutoring in primary will be entirely different to secondary.... possibly?!

I know a secondary school who purposefully put more money into their art dept as it's a subject they manage to hey high score in...

#cynical

[NeurotrashWarrior]

(Which I personally think is a great idea!)

[TheHoneyBadger]

I just found out my school doesn’t teach RE beyond year 8 which as far as I’m aware is a statutory requirement. Kind of wish I’d clocked how shit it is before I worked there and let my son attend.

There hasn’t been a full ofsted inspection for over 7 years

[TheHoneyBadger]

Sorry way off topic.

[MrsHerculePoirot]

@DreamingofBrie

MrsHerculePoirot

Did the adding a page to class notebook using Teams thing work for you?

Thank goodness it's Friday!

Not yet 😂 I’ve made a team with some colleagues as students and am using them as Guinea pigs so that I can train others next week!!!

I can do quizzes now though and assignments. I do need to get my head around notebook though for writing subjects as I think it does what they are asking about!

[MsAwesomeDragon]

honey do they shove it into pshe? That's what my school does. So the year 10 and 11 pshe classes so half a year of pshe and half a year of re, swapping teachers somewhere around February. Not that the kids take either subject seriously.

[Iggi999]

I'm sure that's why religious studies teachers went to uni for four years
Honestly there are complaints about schools not tackling racism enough, and then the timetable downgrades RE. It's madness

[MsAwesomeDragon]

I know! It's appalling. My dh just completely dismissed RE which is what I've left for dd to do this afternoon while I'm at school. He doesn't see the point because "it's all twaddle". I was shocked that he thinks she should just not know what other people believe, simply because he doesn't share those beliefs. He did take my point that in order to respect other people, we should know a bit about their beliefs, even if we think it's nonsense.

RE is actually a very popular GCSE at my school, and they get a lot out of the GCSE course, it's the kids who don't do the GCSE who don't get many RE lessons.

[noblegiraffe]

Oh look from the other day
Prediction 14. ....There will be an argument about how all kids’ education has been affected therefore they should all have a tutor.

Already a thread on it.