The Sixteenth Republic - waiting on the GCSE results show!

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If you are NOT staff and just have a general education query please start your own thread.

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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

@Appuskidu

Do we think that the PHE research-proving schools are safe-that they’ll be releasing later in the year, will be the thing that gets the blame if schools all go tits up?

Use PHE as credible enough research to open schools, but then sack PHE and later say you were only doing what they told you in opening schools, and that’s reason enough why you had to sack them!

As they have trashed the PHE and replaced it with what looks like a tame version. I suspect that it may never see the light of day.

Besides the person running the new 'improved' version was in charge of talk talk when they had their massive leak and was in charge of our fantastic track and trace system.

So a good start.

And lets not talk about her husband being on the board that canned the PHE (for being obstructive).

I'm quite relieved to be going to work in a Covid-free zone every day. I bet we'll be beating them back from the doors, they'll all want to come in. Turns out that school staff have the cushiest number!

Thanks, Staff. DS’s school have blocked any further sharing of CAGs until the exam boards have done their revisions. It gives the impression it’s the exam boards banning it, but it’s not clear. Makes no odds to me or him but I wondered if this was the same everywhere.

@Saucery

Thanks, Staff. DS’s school have blocked any further sharing of CAGs until the exam boards have done their revisions. It gives the impression it’s the exam boards banning it, but it’s not clear. Makes no odds to me or him but I wondered if this was the same everywhere.

I thought CAGs were embargoed until results day? So A level can be shared but not GCSE...

I'm assuming that our entire SLT have been kidnapped by aliens since none of us have heard ANYTHING from any of them since last Wednesday.

GCSE CAGs are embargoed until Thursday. A Levels can be released now, however not every school has to until Thursday.

@MrsHamlet I feel like alien abduction might make a pleasant change right now. When your SLT are returned after their probing can you point the aliens in the direction of North London.

@MadameMinimes I'm not entirely sure we want them back. They've gone from increasingly panicky emails on Friday after 4pm to nothing in one fell swoop. It's almost as if the rest of us are meaningless.
However, I will certainly send the little green men in your direction.

Anyone else seen this? I honestly don't know what to think anymore....
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/18/children-covid-19-english-schools-virus-safe-reopening

"Should" is such a good word. I do a whole lesson on should and could and must and will....

My SLT have made it to Roswell by now. Last seen circa 2017.

U4T will be all over that Guardian piece! So many fudge words though.

And not authored by an expert in virology.

Yeah that article does read as rather vague for a scientist.....

Be interesting to see what those on Data and Graphs thread make of the PHE study he quotes.

@MrsHamlet

I'm assuming that our entire SLT have been kidnapped by aliens since none of us have heard ANYTHING from any of them since last Wednesday.

My last email from the Head (or anyone else up chain) was July 31st.

We had the statement of results sent out by the exams officer on Thursday. Without comment or follow up.

They're fogging the school next week so we can't go in.

I'm getting a bit antsy now, I normally over-prepare

[quote WhyNotMe40]Anyone else seen this? I honestly don't know what to think anymore....
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/18/children-covid-19-english-schools-virus-safe-reopening[/quote]
Yet again-hardly any mention about the risks to school staff!

So long as they realise it's an unfinished study!

@Piggywaspushed

So long as they realise it's an unfinished study!

And that it's an opinion piece on an unfinished study.

Meanwhile on twitter idiots trying to argue results analysis is needed. (wouldn't be surprised if its my SLT).

Do some people have nothing better to do than babble shite?!

Sigh.
Silly men. I assume.

I was thinking about the DfE clearly trying to keep the moderated grades (or the GAVS as the GCSE thread has christened them) from us and the students (unless they are better, of course!). They can't do that , can they? The results don't belong to the boards...we also can't check for clerical errors without them.

@Hercwasonaroll what the hell would you analyse?

I’ll do a very basic headline results analysis for governors because they will want to know how it went but I’m not going beyond that. The results aren’t being published or used for appraisal so what is the point? Some people have too much time on their hands.

Apparently it's necessary to find out the underachieving groups. If you don't already know that before they sit their exams you've got a problem.

Anything beyond a welcome back, here's the plan for September is not needed. (apart from obvs for governors, who presumably will glance at it and go meh).

hardly any mention about the risks to school staff!

Every single fucking time!

My asthma is shite in the winter as it is. Which reminds me to book a review for me and my son.

I was hoping to be excused the yearly death by a million graphs analysis staff presentation this year.....

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/work/3998958-anyone-else-being-forced-back-into-the-office-after-working-from-home

Not wanting to go back to a workplace where you can’t be 1m apart, and one of the first replies is to ask if they’re in a union!

Not those Marxist workshy leftie rabble rousers that everyone hates, surely ...