The Eleventh Republic - countdown to summer holidays

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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.

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-ABBA - anti bashers and baiting association
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-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

whiterosemaths.com/resources/schemes-of-learning/primary-sols/

www.gov.uk/government/publications/teaching-mathematics-in-primary-schools

@Mistressiggi I've been away for a bit but I bought my DS times tables rockstars. We do 5 mins a day together. It does seem to be slowly helping

Thank hedghogger I've just looked that up, not too dear either (having bought Reading Eggs which was expensive!) Does it ask loads of questions though because the problem I have (one of them) is there are lots of ways to test the tables but ds simply hasn't learnt them so a quiz asking him 7x8 or whatever doesn't work (he would get here eventually by doing 7x10 and subtracting, or adding it all up rather than multiplying.)

@Mistressiggi DD loves TT rockstars but she knows all her tables. DS (Yr 1) is learning his through arrays. His school uses Study Ladder. It’s free to access 3 literacy/numeracy tasks a day. His school assigns they tasks but you can choose them yourself. They have tutorials before the activities.

@Mistressiggi it asks questions but you're literally doing 4 tables at a time, so lots of repetition. We do 5 lots of 1 min. It then builds up and brings more in. You need to get 20 in 1 minute to move on

Morning all! We're going to need another thread. Can we fill one more before the holidays? Apologies mistress. I get half an hour's induction via zoom today!

It’s up and ready. Things will explode with Results Days upsets, timetables come out and heaven forbid that there is another lockdown

*I have a hypothesis that we were so obsessed with getting children in early years to write independently and get stuff down on paper that it screwed stuff up further down the line. If children haven’t got what a simple sentence is and the punctuation sorted, then expanding those sentences and using the correct punctuation for that is going to be impossible.

Perhaps more time spent orally rehearsing sentences and keeping transcription to phonics sessions would help. It would probably free up more time for telling and retelling stories too.*

Absolutely completely agree.

Thanks staff ! Heading on over!