The Twelfth Republic - push and glide to the summer break

[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

[HarveySchlumpfenburger]

@StaffAssociationRepresentative

Nurses will have their pay award back dated to April as they have a different pay award year

This pay rise follows the settlement for more than one million NHS workers who continue to benefit from the three-year Agenda for Change pay deal, under which the starting pay for a newly qualified nurse has increased by over 12% since 2017/18.

This means nurses who are still moving up their pay structures will receive an average 4.4% rise this year.

I don’t think there’s anything to backdate for nurses. Looks like anyone in the NHS in a banded AfC won’t get anything more because they’ve already had one. So the paysrise happened in April.

[RigaBalsam]

Staff someone tried to say that but she started saying it was disgusting and only for nurses that had worked 3 years.

It's like any headline figure though. We all wont get 3.1 percent.

[StaffAssociationRepresentative]

@JulyBreeze - we aim to please

[StaffAssociationRepresentative]

Nurses will have their pay award back dated to April as they have a different pay award year

This pay rise follows the settlement for more than one million NHS workers who continue to benefit from the three-year Agenda for Change pay deal, under which the starting pay for a newly qualified nurse has increased by over 12% since 2017/18.

This means nurses who are still moving up their pay structures will receive an average 4.4% rise this year.

[JulyBreeze]

Can I just say, am so impressed with the way the "sub titles" of these threads seem to perfectly describe the time period over which 1000 posts are made! Eg this one finishing just as the last schools to end term and start on summer break .... do!

[RigaBalsam]

A nurse friend of mine has posted on facebook the payrises list with teachers at the top saying ' this is the thanks we get for working through the pandemic'

[CallmeAngelina]

See y'all over there!

[Mistressiggi]

@motherrunner your 2l flask can be multi-purpose - drink your tea out of it, and then pee in it discreetly while squatting behind your trolley.

[StaffAssociationRepresentative]

Thread 13 is up - ready for all the pay hits and union bashing that are starting to flood in

[Appuskidu]

@noblegiraffe

I reported that poster last night for attempting to derail a thread in exactly the same way she had a different thread under a previous name, MNHQ said they would look at it and clearly they thought it was fine because nothing happened

Look out for posters becoming absurdly hysterical and making accusations of racism when a thread stops pandering to them.

I thought that poster sounded familiar. I need to just ignore, I think.

[StaffAssociationRepresentative]

@CallmeAngelina - yes that got painful. I wonder what name they will use today.

Incredible how quickly it focused on it/her and then switched to racism. Maybe a case of a glass of wine too many by that time.

[CallmeAngelina]

@StaffAssociationRepresentative Nearly time for a new thread.
Unlucky 13????

[CallmeAngelina]

My original, seemingly offensive, post has been deleted, but none of the subsequent ones where that poster kept repeating it and screaming for justice and retribution/validation.
Bizarre.
But thanks to all of you who PM'd me.
#solidarity

[noblegiraffe]

I reported that poster last night for attempting to derail a thread in exactly the same way she had a different thread under a previous name, MNHQ said they would look at it and clearly they thought it was fine because nothing happened

Look out for posters becoming absurdly hysterical and making accusations of racism when a thread stops pandering to them.

[CallmeAngelina]

'Morning all.

[StaffAssociationRepresentative]

Fair point - those who come in with temperatures and sniffling everywhere should be sent home..

Cover is going to be hell.

[TheHoneyBadger]

It means we’re supposed to do that yes. My worry is being killed off by those obsessed with presenteeism who come in even with noravirus usually.

[hedgehogger1]

Does this mean that if we get a cold and are running a bit of a temperature, instead of struggling info work and teaching, we can just say "sorry too hot, having a week off" we will be needing a lot of supply teachers

[Appuskidu]

It can’t be worse unless they decide we can teach 2 different classes at the same time in different zones lol

Or compulsory live streaming of all lessons!

To be sent instantly over the tinternet to any pupil who is self isolating, SLT who will use it for your PMR observations and Ofsted .

I shouldn’t give Gav ideas!

[TheHoneyBadger]

It can’t be worse unless they decide we can teach 2 different classes at the same time in different zones lol. No seriously I can’t see how it can be worse. It either stays as it stands or it improves.

[StaffAssociationRepresentative]

I think the August announcement might be influenced on what is happening with infection rates etc.

[TheHoneyBadger]

Slightly reassuring that I won’t be trying to teach ks4 physics to a set of totally disengaged kids who haven’t mastered ks2 maths using textbooks and resources designed for higher level students though.

I must count my blessings and be glad that at least I’ll be in close to my own subject area from September.

[motherrunner]

Absolutely @TheHoneyBadger.

I’m not sure whether to look forward to or fear the updates guidance on the 11th, can’t be much worse ... can it?

[TheHoneyBadger]

It’s miles off and anything could happen by September.

I’m not going to race from one end of the school to the other and if I need the toilet on route I’ll be using it. Don’t think we can be fired for not wanting to eg wet ourselves in class.

No idea what walking into a class who’ve been left unattended for 5-10 minutes and have potentially have been stuck in the same room together all day with flustered teachers coming and going will be like.

I think we have a tendency for taking full responsibility for behaviour regardless of the group, whole school situation, fight that kicked off in break just before our lesson etc. Going to have to find a way to pull back a little from that and have the school accept the conditions themselves are against us and there’s only so much we can counter.

Easy said though. A lesson with shitty behaviour makes me feel useless even when I know it’s not me or every teacher finds that class a handful.

[motherrunner]

Yes, so far I have purchased a trolley (due to teaching in 7 different classrooms) and a 2ltr flask (so don’t have to waste time making coffee when I can be weeing). I feel so unprepared!