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

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@Piggywaspushed

Let's not make ourselves panic appu! It is what it is...

I know! I’m trying to stay calm .

I just want him to get his university place-grrr!

I need .

I think, personally, that school with very wild predictions should have been held to account as part if the process. Ofqual said they couldn't do that because if confidentiality but it happens with coursework . Extra samples are called if anything looks wrong. I know DS's school were annoyed that they couldn't send an explanation about the music results and would have been more than happy to explain why they have historically been shit. But Ofqual didn't want to invest time in investigations.

I think schools that have pre-moderated and not increased their own pass rate/7/A rate or whatever will be fine.

We “will be fine” in the sense that we won’t expect to be downgraded - that’s why we did it.

But if no schools’ submitted grades are moderated we will not “be fine” relative to schools that were more generous.

No sign of any more English guidance yet then??

They will be, though, Onions. That's already part of the process and why they leaked the massive increases some schools were claiming for % A* at A level or whatever.

Well, not sure I agree with that either hip because your conscience is clear that you also didn't underestimate the kids and so they have got the results they deserve. The 'over estimation' in Scotland tended to be a few students in each school at crucial borderlines : it was shown not to really be whole school overestimation in the way we are imagining.

I still think that's urban myth august!

The English guidance was updated on Friday. They just don’t seem to have given it to the press.

Have you got a link? Are there actually any noticeable changes??? Or is it the usual blink and you'd miss it stuff?

I was kind of hoping they would insist on bubbles up to a certain size in secondary because at the moment my school juts isn't bothering and it gives me the right hump when Nick Gibb says the main mitigations are handwashing and the bubbles 'all schools have'.

www.gov.uk/government/publications/actions-for-schools-during-the-coronavirus-outbreak/guidance-for-full-opening-schools

I couldn't see any obvious changes but I would be glad if someone can point them out if there are!

This bit is risable:

There are bullet points at the beginning : I shall scrutinise the bit about cv teachers (as DH ahs meeting next week) and ventilation as I know we worry about that , and report back.

Small stuff about cleaning rooms between classes and some added advice about results day. Mostly clarification and elaboration of stuff that was already there. Nothing groundbreaking.

Still with the forward facing desks!!

Read the transport stuff. Equally risible: authorities and school should survey parents about transport intentions... In the middle of the freaking holidays!!???? What the actual???

@BelleSausage

This bit is risable:

Oh, well I feel much safer now!

This guidance isn’t new though, is it-it was out last week?

Is nothing being released today?

They will be, though, Onions. That's already part of the process

The same was true in Scotland until an hour ago!

The 'over estimation' in Scotland tended to be a few students in each school at crucial borderlines

125000 results and 75000 students affected though. Apparently 40% of results in England have been downgraded (as things stand).

I can just picture the scenes at the DfE and Ofqual today!

It looks like they snuck it out on Friday when we weren’t looking. Probably because they are waiting to see how Scotland fares.

It makes sense now why Boris was going on about schools on Saturday. They’d already released the guidance update!

Nope, can't find anything more different. I think they added half a sentence to the bit about propping door open.

Is till says the same thing for wind instruments and singing, promising more guidance 'soon'.

That risible bit was in there in July, though...

Exactly piggy it looks like some has just thrown in an extra sentence or two to the July guidance. Nothing has changed!

I really love the bit about strict social distancing on results day which, for GCSE results day, is one week before we're all back in as normal with no hope of sd at all

@BelleSausage maybe in the last update they publish before schools actually go back they will amend that bit and say the Test and Trace system isn't working and we are not clear about what measures are required to make schools safe, but it will be fine!

Maybe the Scotland announcement is a smokescreen they had planned all along.

(I'm joking)

Thought this bit was interesting in light of Gav yesterday:

While the risk of transmission between young children and adults is likely to be low, adults should continue to take care to socially distance from other adults including older children/adolescents.