The Sixteenth Republic - waiting on the GCSE results show!

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We have doubles for GCSE and A-level - 2 hours! Teaching bottom set P4 and 5 on a Friday is a slog but in the whole I’m used to it.

@Piggywaspushed

appu apparently they will get 'proper' results.

Only the school will be able to figure out where the changes are against CAGs, not parents, which I find annoying as a parent!

I don't think anyone is ever going to get access to the complete moderated grades.

Sorry, I'm being slow!

Proper as in, CAG? Or just one list showing the highest possible mark out of both lists?

@Appuskidu

So do we now know what results the y11 are getting tomorrow? Is it just the CAGs or will they end up with two sets of grades at some point?

Looks like just CAGs from what I can see - that may change though?? Btw 'GCSE party' thread on AIBU. ALL posters are debating is whether 16 yr olds should be allowed alcohol because 'of course they can have a party!'

Is anyone watching this hilariously honest man on BBC News!!?

Exam boards have promised 'proper' results in schools by like midnight already gone.

No idea if it has happened .blankety would know but she is probably a bit snowed under

Oops! Ignore my last post - showing highest of the 2. Results and CAGs.

The GCSE thread I am on is being a bit more coy about what their DCs are doing tomorrow (some mention of seeing friends). A few are going to The Ivy!

Question.

What have you been told by your school about remote provision?

Child is off because they have covid symptoms. Test result is negative, but they have to stay off for 2 weeks anyway - is that right? Or is that only for some schools depending on risk assessment? Anyway. That child is at home 'ill', but it turns out definitely doesn't have covid, just a cold. And they feel OK within a week. Do we have to give those children remote learning activities? Or are they just off like 'normal'?

Do we only have to provide remote learning if we are officially isolating due to a closed bubble?

Child is off because they have covid symptoms. Test result is negative, but they have to stay off for 2 weeks anyway - is that right?

No, they have to stay off till they’re better which could be a lot shorter. (To avoid spreading whatever it is that they do have).

We have been told nothing. Because why would we need to know this stuff?

@ohthegoats

According to current advice on coronavirus, anyone self-isolating as a result of Track and Trace contacting them about a link with a case should isolate for 14 days. The U4T lot have been saying that it should be a case of a negative test and them back but that's unsafe given that tests can be negative throughout the incubation period but people are still infected then.

Work-wise, we are legally obligated to provide high quality remote learning for small numbers, groups, whole bubbles, who are self isolating. It doesn't say individuals so your school could decide that, if it's just one child, it wouldn't be expected but I'm predicting that most will do it for just one.

You can also be asked to work whilst self-isolating, likely providing work for those in your bubble(s) who are self-isolating too.

I know bog all about what I’m going back to from a teaching perspective, I know what parents have been told (year bases, bubbles, staggered lunch), plus the risk assessment from when we were open to hardly anyone.

@noblegiraffe

Child is off because they have covid symptoms. Test result is negative, but they have to stay off for 2 weeks anyway - is that right?

No, they have to stay off till they’re better which could be a lot shorter. (To avoid spreading whatever it is that they do have).

Yeah if what they have turns out to be something else then they're just back when better.

We have a special (awful) timetable with no breaks, double lessons, rolling lunch over which we're expected to "help out" by eating in form rooms, allocated toilets for staff but no time to use them, and classes split between teachers in all sorts of odd ways. They were hoping to revert to the proper timetable at some stage but I can't see it.

Fuck me, work load is going to be insane.

I get that I'd be providing online stuff to my bubble if we were all isolating - I've done some of that already - and that would be OK in the same way that last term was OK. Ish.

But if I've got kids in and out, who mostly don't have printers etc, then just trying to provide stuff for 2 or 3 kids is going to be a nightmare.

This was the year to do a masters, wasn't it.

This was the year to take the job I was offered in June half term!!

Surely surely surely schools will just say fuck it, Oak will do.

I hope so.
Our SLT banned Oak last term 😩😩

@ohthegoats

There's also practically zero advice on what to do for those who don't have access to technology as high-quality videos or similar are going to be considered standard and expected.

Noble, Herc,

That is what the Government is pushing and why they have funding them for another year. Even if you felt that those were quality resources, which I know many don't, that would only be fine if your school was following their curriculum and a kid could get the same coverage from home.

www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/nicola-sturgeon-refuses-rule-out-22540201.amp

@noblegiraffe

Surely surely surely schools will just say fuck it, Oak will do.

I'm not sure that schools will be able to, especially with Of twat sted sticking their noses in.

How can you ban Oak? And on what grounds?

[quote Hercwasonaroll]www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/nicola-sturgeon-refuses-rule-out-22540201.amp[/quote]
So based on the observed trend, England will also announce this in somewhere between 3 to 5 weeks.

[quote Iamnotthe1]@ohthegoats

There's also practically zero advice on what to do for those who don't have access to technology as high-quality videos or similar are going to be considered standard and expected.[/quote]
But they will have the invisible laptops that Gav promised.