The fourteenth republic - watching Scotland and ever changing DfE guidelines

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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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-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

I missed a whole load of responses. ignore me!

He’s got some weird electronic white noise ones that don’t play music. They take the incoming sound and broadcast a frequency that cancels it. Some sort of science!

I can’t abide background noise while I’m working either.

Thanks Madame I got confused because what was always going to be the system was being presented as new news and packaged up as ‘teachers will be ignored’.

Yep. These headlines will have been sending kids into absolute panic too. I’m furious at the way they keep spinning dramatic headlines out of information we already knew. My year 13 cohort are already anxious enough without all of this. They know that they were a much better cohort, on track for far better results, than last year and so these headlines are really not helpful at all and are causing unnecessary distress. I wish these reporters would be a bit more responsible.

Thanks @Piggywaspushed I don't have issues myself but am aware some people do!

Noise cancelling headphones use really cool physics- destructive interference. They play an 'upside down' version of the sound waves they detect, and that cancels them out. No need to add music on top.

As a mum of a year 13 as well as a teacher that article made me feel sick. Reading it made it seem that your grade is based on your ranking alone and so if I'm a very clever cohort you will not get the grade. Really unfair.

@HedyPrism that explanation is why I think of Physics as the made up science. It just doesn't make sense to my English teacher brain! My sixth form forms always try to explain their subjects to me and I get so confused!!!

Mumsneedwine- it really isn’t as bad as it sounds and you wouldn’t loose out by being in a more “clever” cohort. This is a real over-simplification but if for the last 3 years your school had 20% of students with a GCSE score of 7.5+ and 20% got an A grade at A Level in your subject then this year if 40% of students have a GCSE score of 7.5 or above the statistical model would expect the number of A grades to rise in line with that.

Anyone got a link to any really good noise cancelling headphones that won' also cancel my bank balance?

@MadameMinimes thank you. My logical brain tells me it's exactly what we thought it would be, but my mummy brain panics. She has vet med offer so it's been a long haul just to get an offer. She should be fine, she's never got less than an A in anything. But feels weird not being in her control. Her school has had 40% A/A% for last 5 years and her cohort got stellar GCSEs so it should be fine. But should is not a word I like !
I'm also dealing with panicking students who have read the article and giving lots of comforting words to them. But I do know how they feel. Roll on Thursday for round 1.

www.rte.ie/amp/1157805/?__twitter_impression=true

School return going well in Germany.

Noise cancelling headphones are great. Slept through majority of a flight to nz thanks to them and a good eye mask.

Echt I’m guessing she’s stressed but I can’t help that and needed to get her the proper info. It is indeed a shitty outsourced service where even accessing your payslips is bloody hard work with several different passwords needed that I can never remember and they are totally no no contactable for employees.

piggy DH has these ones

Thank you !

@HoneyBadger That wasn't aimed at you (on the other thread), by the way!

About supply teachers? I didn’t take it as being about me. You should have seen some of the total freaks I’d bump into on the supply circuit

50 was one.

Wasn’t 50 around a couple of years ago telling everyone that teachers actually had a fine work life balance and should stop whinging and it turned out that they were part time at a private school?

She has name changed. Used to be named after a South African place.

Piggy, I think, said she’d only been teaching for 2 years and in private school.

She’s saying her school doesn’t allow kids to be unsupervised. No shit. Nor does ours usually but with students staying in zones and teachers moving we don’t have a choice. Her idea of making them leave the room and line up in the corridor blissfully ignores covid and avoiding crowded corridors for us to wade through.

She’s on another planet

This is reassuring. Someone at TES needs to be fired after that article this morning

www.gov.uk/government/news/response-to-tes-story-about-centre-assessment-grades

Oooh, my Union have been in touch! To ask me to make sure I’m paying the right level of subscription. So not the anti-capitalist, pro-school staff beasts portrayed on all the other threads

[quote user1471525172]@HedyPrism that explanation is why I think of Physics as the made up science. It just doesn't make sense to my English teacher brain! My sixth form forms always try to explain their subjects to me and I get so confused!!![/quote]
The other sciences only work because of the physics!

My town just been listed as an area of concern. If it gets locked down, I won't be going to Wales next weekend. Sigh.