The Fifteenth Republic - A Level and GCSE Results storm coming!

[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

That primary sounds freaking insane anyway! What do they think when they get to Secondary after a year of lounging around?!

Glad to hear it Breeze. Fingers crossed they’ll be the same here.

Going to be hideous having to go into school knowing there have been multiple cases but for instance all in different ‘bubbles’. Or perhaps worse knowing damn well kids have been ill but parents haven’t had them tested for fear of having to take time off work.

If they won’t put in protection for workers who have to isolate people just won’t test and those who do will be loathe to pass on names of contacts.

As houses of multiple occupancy (was thinking HOMO but that can’t be right?) I have a couple of houses near me where they’re clearly hotbedding around shift work for the same factory. Bit of a recipe for transmission

I've just been told by my stepmother that I'll be fine because "bubbles". I had to explain to her that I'll be in 4 year group "bubbles" each of about 150, and that 2m was more like 20cm between students. Sigh.

First week done. Can safely say it is impossible to socially distance as a teacher.

My throat is also struggling with being back at teacher volume.

Other than that though, it has been lovely at times. Children have been so pleased to come back and behaviour has been unusually good! Our parents have made a real effort to SD in the playground.

The northampton food factory shows what happens if they dont t&t and isolate/close thinks. That should not have got like that.
Antibody testing or more actual testing before letting people back.
So say kid has it. Test negative. If you are si due to contact then test for having covid after the 14d. They need to know who did catch it. Logically the whole family should SI for the same 2w so that way you might catch over 50% of household contacts.

I know people are rushing back from France to avoid the quarantine period but not everyone is and not everyone will quarantine. Therefore we will potentially have kids at school who should be in quarantine - I guess it is too late once they are in school ...

Not going to happen. One house near me (tiny 2 bed) has three adult males working shifts at local factory, 1, sometimes 2, adult female/s and one pre school age child living there. Think they’re Polish.

Presumably living like that to save money as wages are higher here but to save you need to minimise rent and bills.

At the height of the lockdown there were still other men coming round fixing cars together and huddling round a makeshift bbq sharing meat they were cooking.

I don’t know if they officially all live at the same address (doubtful the landlord would have agreed to that many) and I doubt very much they’d all isolate if any of them tested positive given they ignored lockdown or that they’d be giving the names of the other people in their household let alone all their contacts.

Just from that household you can easily see how the Northampton factory situation can happen.

Not being racist btw the same would apply if you had a largely student workforce living in shared housing.

Well we are to stay in local lockdown for another week as cases still rising.
Telling people not to meet in their homes or gardens is not really cutting it in terms of ‘lockdown’.
That’s with all kids off school wonder what happens come Sept when we all back

Don't know @Hercwasonaroll. This year was the first year under the new regime so...

a new acronym maybe?

Schools Trouble UFT

Corona Rumble UFT

Mumsnet UFT Infiltration - MUFTI

@starrynight19 I was thinking about that earlier, concluded the only way you'd get people in an area back to staying at home would be to close all surrounding shops and facilities, and frighten people again by publishing area death figures .... except that doesn't work because there's at least a 2 week delay AND fewer people are dying now anyway.

I am sure I saw something in the guidance about not crossing more than 2 key stages when teaching. I can’t see it now. Did I imagine it? I am basically going to work early years through to year 11 and whilst I don’t really mind, I want a risk assessment in place. Anyone else working across several key stages?

I am, KS3, 4 and 5.

Just 4 and 5 for me but I'll be exposed to KS3 in the corridors

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.tes.com/news/level-results-legal-challenge-set-launch%3famp

Has anyone heard of the Good Law Project?

Yeah, they are the people who did all the Brexit challenges and stopped the prorogation of parliament.

KS3,4&5 here too....

345 here as well.

KS3, 4 and 5 here too..

3,4,5 here too (and DH too)

Just relaxing in a cottage with a beautiful view in North Wales!

Busy here but one pub taking things so seriously it would not let us into their open terrace because they needed to sanitise their tables!

Infection rate is well above 1000 now. Back in the Nandos chart days nothing would have been open.

In other news , our data guy thinks there are grounds for appeal with my A Level class's results.

Lots of people want Gav to resign. That won't give kids their university places.

I can't help thinking that Health and Education are prime "promote to the level of their own incompetence" material. At least with Universities we occasionally get someone who's interested and we always have all the data and all the geeks to analyse it.

We’ve moved on from the numbers are so high because we’re testing more to it’s because the targeting is more targeted. Presumably even the deniers were forced into admitting that the number of cases was rising faster than the number of tests.

Relax & enjoy the view piggy.

KS3,4,5 here, every year group as well