The Eleventh Republic - countdown to summer holidays

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Shall we do a sweepstake on when the first whole school closes after September 1st?

Sept 8th? Maybe the 10-12th as long as testing is as easily obtained as they say.

I give it 3 weeks....

Basically for me it makes hardly any difference as we were doing screenplay anyway (first year through, HoD didn’t want them hogging all the equipment/spending ages learning to edit) - I wanted to make a film but managed to do loads of it during lockdown anyway so I’m fairly happy and the adjustment maybe takes a week’s work out of it if that? So it’s as good as no adjustment to me. Whereas if people making the film can submit a storyboard instead they’re doing half what my students are! And we’ve already drafted screenplays so that time’ gone. TBH I’d still rather do the full thing anyway because it’s better learning for them but it’s a trivial difference.

And I can’t see anything useful about BTEC at all. Although because we did CAGs for the year 12 units and went on to y13 in lockdown my classes are actually ahead of schedule!

I reckon 3-4 weeks.

On paper, my school is bright and spacious. Lots of opening windows, doors straight to playgrounds in 90% of classrooms........
Communal art/cooking/DT areas have sinks etc.
Masses of outdoor space, including access to a large well-maintained field.
But still the crushes in the corridors and to avoid having to clean the doors the outside doors to them have been propped open so far, which is just not appropriate really and a definite No when all children back.
Not to mention our lovely blown air heating units. How efficient they are going to be to gently coddle the delicate little Covid virus particles and float them round the whole classroom on a warm breeze!

My window is locked shut to stop the kids jumping out.

Not sure what that says about my lessons.

We have blown air heaters, too.

There are going to be so many classrooms with inadequate ventilation, aren’t there? Locked shut for safety, old and decrepit, painted shut accidentally......
The most basic recommendation in that ‘guidance’ not even achievable. 🤦‍♀️

i want to comment on windows but it's too outing

That’s before you get to Miss AlwaysColdBrrrShutTheWindows. She’s going to have to bring an extra cardi and a scarf (it could double up as a sort of Stealth Mask) cos aalllllllll those windows are going to be open when I walk in the room

Can someone pint me to where it says that? A relative is in a profession who'd know about rooms and ventilation and said it wasn't enough pre Covid in my place.

It’s definitely in the bit about a suspected case and moving them to a room with a door to wait for parent. Basically, you’re treating them like a gas leak.

@noblegiraffe

My window is locked shut to stop the kids jumping out.

Not sure what that says about my lessons.

Mine too, noble.

I had suggested a couple of years ago that they either saw me as a flight risk or a suicide risk - but either way I was menopausal and needed to be able to open my bloody windows.

*Once the school is in operation, it is important to ensure good ventilation. Advice on this can be found in Health and Safety Executive guidance on air conditioning and ventilation during the coronavirus outbreak.

In classrooms, it will be important that schools improve ventilation, (for example, by opening windows).*

Here it is, under the Estates bit.

Gav wouldn't get a job at an interview. He ignores the 'how' in every question.

More than 2 or 300 Branwen! More!!!

My room ahs now windows. At all.

no windows...

Teachers are not 'younger children' Jenny Harries. Have you spotted that??

Apologies for all the shouting at the BBC!!

How can you have no windows?! is your classroom actually a dark room?

I've made a decision not to listen to today's briefing. I just know I will start crying

Fab, thanks Sauce

It's basically a cinema!