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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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

And, the unions will be all over that guidance.

And (I'll stop soon, promise), that teacher with Rosenshine? Wave it at me 3 times again today. We then had a row about how she wants to do loads of testing in week 1 of September. Use those 3 days 'usefully' apparently. Why am I afraid of testing? Is it a dirty word? I have put my foot down as Ass. Head.. so, she'll go to the assessment lead next, who is her friend. Yay!

How much would that Huff Post thing be likely to be correct? It's depressing. the distance teachers have to keep is all about track and trace isn't it??

And no time spent with anyone? How depressing.

I think the stuff leaked to Huff Post all seems quite possible......

I hate being an English teacher sometimes... those guidelines have really upset me. Let's scarp everything and forcefeed them English and maths.

Not only is that depressing for option subjects, it is depressing to be seen as so 'doctrinal' as a core subject.

The guidance does so little to protect teachers. It is truly terrifying.

Anyone who ahs ever seen schools buses can see how ridiculous that is.

Still, maybe SLT will actually come out to bus duty.

How the hell do you police kids in different year groups sitting together on the bus. Also how do they arrive at different times. Nearly all our kids come by bus...

I think I've solved the bus problem (and the lesson changeover problem), we just need someone to invent a teleporter before September.

And there's those on public transport too, although I suppose SD ing is more possible and normalised on eg a train??

Also with those guidelines do you think they'll remove the need to socially distance on buses. We've sometimes not been able to fit all our students on under normal bus capacity (there are no school buses it's just the regular public bus).

@ohthegoats

I have a visualiser, but it doesnt do what I want it to do - I'm really using it as a webcam. I'm imagining that something exists that I can plug into my laptop, which will allow me to write on it, then that writing appears on the screen.

I just read the guidance for September. I am not going to be involved with track and trace.

I've got one of those, plugs into the USB port of my laptop and you can use it to write on PowerPoint, PDFs etc.

It's a black surface but the cursor on the screen shows you where you're writing.

I've converted all of my lessons to PowerPoint and use them in slide show mode. I find that the "wider, shorter" slide format works far better than the 4:3 format though.

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07VKB37HZ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_kBI-Eb5NEH393?tag=mumsnetforu03-21.

@Flagsfiend that's the sort of "can do attitude" we need around here. You'd best get on with it. Something about nuclear fission...

My DS walks to school. There won’t be any SD during that, it’s more like a football crowd surging out of the stadium, the pavements aren’t wide enough, there’s too many of them all going in the same direction and they’re, well, kids - even nice, sensible, old-enough-to-understand-it’s-important-when-their-mum-is-telling-them kids don’t sd once their mates have an hilarious meme to show them on their phone.

If any of that is good for students' mental health then I am Sigmund Freud.

Some bubble that like- 240 more like a poverty millennium dome.

That @DreamingofBrie is the man. I could use it in a normal classroom situation maybe... I need to justify the cost to myself. No change of school paying.

I don’t get why they are saying year groups bubbles though-how are you going to keep eg y7 together, but away from any other year groups?!

Just looked at that drawing tablet thing and it suggested an ‘anti-fouling glove’ which looks quite funny.

Just read this. Our year groups are 300. Not sure what we do with the spare 60

https://m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/school-reopening-whole-year-bubbles-full-guidance-covidukk_5ef9dd4ac5b6ca97091288e4?guccounter=1

You realise this is not for our safety , right? It is so those poor , overworked contact tracers ( I think the only other workers who have been said to be bingeing on Netflix) don't have to trace too many people:

Where teachers do need to get closer, they will be advised to spend no more than 15 minutes at any one time closer than a metre to anyone else

Is this what Gav meant this morning when he said he was 'consulting'?? Is he consulting Mumsnet Massive via Huff Post leak??

Schools week have it to but no main stream media.

Schools week got it form Huff Post.

I saw it via twitter. Thought it was a spoof to start with. Completely unworkable for our school due to buses and size of year groups. Not sure they have consulted anyone who actually works in a school if this is real.

Debra Kidd ahs just mentioned on Twitter that a nursery with 23 cases was told to stay open. Not sure if this is the one in MK.