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
Whether you're a permanent teacher, supply teacher or student teacher, you'll find others in the same situation on our Staffroom forum.
The staffroom
Thirteenth Republic - School’s out for summer, no more pencils no more books!
StaffAssociationRepresentative · 20/07/2020 15:06
It's really bad if you don't know who the rep is. They should be advertising themselves all over the shop! The regional office for your union will know who the school rep is, though your school might not have one (in which case you deal with the next person up, ie in the union offices). That's how it is for us anyway.
Do you feel you have gone over to the dark side by joining? 
Happy Holidays everyone! I hope you are able to switch off and recharge.
I’ve just finished my placement and officially an NQT 
. Though no job yet so not such a happy holiday. Do many jobs get advertised in the summer holidays 
?
@Mistressiggi
Do you feel you have gone over to the dark side by joining?
I did assume it was a bad sign. I may have to be that volunteer.
No dark side. I was always a member at the start of my career and it was the norm then. After a long break and then supply and then a very part time role it didn’t seem necessary. Now back to reality plus realising union membership is likely way down compared to my early days so yes it makes a difference.
When I started at the near beginning of this century the majority of teachers were members. Recent situations with hod setting extra directed time and slt not seeing that as a problem has made me wake up to the new realities of a profession I’ve rejoined.
I've hopped off and on these threads. I've not been on much since we went back to school though because I've been relatively full on and the negativity on the main boards had been affecting my mental health. I'm a TA, and like most in this last few months, have had increased hours, and been doing weekly PPA cover. I've had the loveliest time ever. The class teacher more or less stuck to the planning (a novelty for me!) and also did most of the planning for me for the lessons I covered, just leaving me space to add in my own little bits and bobs.
End of term was a little strange but we were given as much freedom as we wanted to make it nice for the children and largely succeeded I think. We ended it all off with a socially distanced (more or less) staff picnic on the village green.
I'm grateful that the SLT circulated the new plan on the last day, but noticed that many elements of it are the same as we've been doing. That's worked well by and large, but some things have not been happening reliably (increased cleaning and bin emptying) so I'm not sure how they can promise it for September. We'll have to wait and see I suppose. I'm hoping that the cleaner/caretaker will get extra hours to cover it. They were working hard, but the school is very large.
Anyway. HOLIDAYS!!!
@TheHoneyBadger
Definitely
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