Thirteenth Republic - School’s out for summer, no more pencils no more books!

[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.

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-SWOT - school workers opposing teacherbashers
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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

appu where was that ?? I think I can guess already who!!

Has everyone else spotted the Us For Them missionaries' scripted phrase?

If anyone is watching Mrs America it reminds me of the Stop ERA women!

Next time someone says it has badly affected children's mental health, I will request they bring forward peer assessed evidence.

Which one, piggy? ‘Did you know there hasn’t been single recorded transmission from a child to a teacher?’ is bugging me in its monotonous regularity.

No, it's our children need to get back to school. It is badly affecting their mental health

The our is the clue.

@Piggywaspushed

appu where was that ?? I think I can guess already who!!

It’s on the parenting board. Yes, probably!!

I think I’m going to have to invest in my own cheap visualiser. I simply cannot carry sets of textbooks across the school or rely on wishy washy ideas of don’t worry we’ve got a set in that block only to be unable to find them when the class is already late starting because I’ve come all the way from the top floor of another block.

Think someone recommended a cheap one a while back? I wonder if the school would at least be willing to order it for me so I don’t have to pay vat? Somehow doubt it

Visualisers are so worth it, especially if we are at the front.
I've vowed not to spend my own money any more after all the hate! It's going to be so hard though!

Kids across the way are having a great time with sprinklers at the moment. In fact the majority in my small cul-de-sac seem to be having a fun time - granted the parents might not be but some seem to be hands on. I think they are about 8 to young teen age wise. No little ones. But the kids have built a shelter in the green which is their summer den.

@Piggywaspushed

No, it's our children need to get back to school. It is badly affecting their mental health

The our is the clue.

I am starting to read that as it is mucking up my plans/life as a parent.

@TheHoneyBadger our school have bought some visualisers. Think they got a grant from RSC (chemistry not Shakespeare). Worth asking. We are going to have someone doing a practical in a prep room and streaming it to all classes. And record it for later use too. No idea if it will work !

I think we had them in some classrooms in science but highly doubtful in history and when I mentioned trolleys for people with mobility issues in an online meeting the head was clear we can’t even afford that. I can just imagine our lovely prep room ladies doing recorded practicals

I’ve just bought a cheap one on amazon. Hope it’s not shite.

I’ve opted for one I can use a manual focus on as it’ll be text pages for the most part and has a mic built in (not needed for school but useful for home learning when it happens).

Bit of a blind faith purchase.

[quote mumsneedwine]@TheHoneyBadger our school have bought some visualisers. Think they got a grant from RSC (chemistry not Shakespeare). Worth asking. We are going to have someone doing a practical in a prep room and streaming it to all classes. And record it for later use too. No idea if it will work ![/quote]
There are loads of recorded required practicals online - it seems every school wants to have their YouTube stars! We have used a lot as the peripatetic nature of my job makes doing practicals very difficult.

Found this : useful if anyone persists in telling us our job is low risk:

autonomy.work/portfolio/jari/

So this is annoying.

I mention life insurance here and I've had two emails today from random companies I don't recognise to my private and mn email address...

@noblegiraffe

Which one, piggy? ‘Did you know there hasn’t been single recorded transmission from a child to a teacher?’ is bugging me in its monotonous regularity.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. It's a basic scientific understanding, very annoying.

Also 'our children cannot be deprived of their legal right to education any longer for a disease that is statistically very unlikely to affect them'.

So... no bowling alleys, casinos or wedding receptions over 30 until the 15th. Face coverings in galleries, museums and other indoor spaces. FFS.

and they are too scared to have a highly socially distanced crowd at The Oval and The Crucible...

First question on the briefing is about schools and work : 'risking lives over livelihoods'.

Nice.

Boris answered with schools are 'safe and Covid secure'.

HANDS FACE SPACE is the new one!

Are we just HANDS...?

And now Whitty says we have reached the limits of opening up!

Strongly implies that things will need to shut down to open things up.

People with no dependent children will be getting increasingly pissed off at the notion that they need to make sacrifices.

This HANDS FACE SPACE is a Godsend for us.

Surely people will begin to realise 'our children' aren't getting this??