The Sixteenth Republic - waiting on the GCSE results show!

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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.

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

I voted on that express thing

I would love to see a vote on “do you trust the government to get everyone back in offices safely”

I think the “no’s” would win on that one.

I worry about all the manic data entry and re entry and re re entry now producing lots of admin errors

There will be. In my last job, where data was entered into a database, the data was blind double entered, and when the second person entered something that didn’t match the first entry, it beeped and wouldn’t let you continue till the discrepancy was resolved.

And we still had data entry errors. At the end of a project the database was sampled, checked against the original data again and allowed a 5% error rate. Because errors happen.

Oh, they are becoming the new U4T!

Just seen our reopening plans. Kids in zones, teachers moving, staggered starts and ends, two breaks of 30 minutes in the day - one of which is in a ‘canteen’. We are being provided with disposable gloves for marking. Observations suspended. No assemblies etc. We have to teach from behind a line/designated area at the front. It explicitly says students have to remove masks on arriving at school. Doesn’t mention teachers at all - I wonder if that way we do what we like and they leave us to it? Single file in corridors - students leave one by one, a lot of sanitising going on... 😵😱 sounds so different to my ‘real’ job...

This could be a first, we may have to send up rockets, fireworks, flags and anything else we can think of to mark the occasion.

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You've got to be pretty bad as a Tory minister for the Daily Mail to hate you. Yet, they've gone after both Gav and Boris in the last few months.

I feel like contact tracing has suddenly become a non thumb twiddling job in Scotland :

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-53833823

Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse:

BTEC results pulled this evening:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk

Because why would young people be confused when they spend Monday to Friday rammed into crowded classrooms with no masks but are told they can’t hang out with their friends in a house on Saturday? That’s not inconsistent at all!

Someone just needs to explain the magic walls to them.

Hello all, lots of and toffee vodka all round before tomorrow.

I've just read that Piggy. Jeeze! Here begins the onslaught!

Smallest (2) had first day at nursery since March bless him. They made it lovely and he actually came out smiling (cried through whole settling session!)

Should I be stripping him and bagging clothes as soon as he's back? It seemed silly when his brother had been all over him before I'd been able to stop him, plus the cuddle I gave him.

Will anyone do that in sept?

Neurotrash - I considered doing that with my kids when they returned to childminder and school last term - but decided it wasn't worth the risk - if they are in an environment where the virus is in infectious doses on their clothes - well they would have breathed more in and we were all going to get it.
Just made sure they removed coats and shoes and bags when they came in (as they may have been in a different area so different level of contamination) and washed their hands and faces.

Glad he had a good day it makes all the difference when you know they are happy, doesn't it?

The effort wasn't worth the level of risk I meant

Mine will be coming in and sticking uniform straight in the wash and showering - DH and I did when we were in school before the holiday. My two are older though and will have to let themselves in at least twice a week so won’t get a cuddle as they arrive home!

DM quoting from Tories that Gav has one life left to ensure reopening of schools... they know this isn't going to go well and he will be the equivalent of the PHE won't he?

Oh I hope everyone enjoys this laptop story about why the DfE gave out hardly any. It’s because schools are already swimming in tech!

schoolsweek.co.uk/dfe-assumed-schools-had-280-devices-each-before-deciding-free-laptop-allocations/

[quote noblegiraffe]Oh I hope everyone enjoys this laptop story about why the DfE gave out hardly any. It’s because schools are already swimming in tech!

schoolsweek.co.uk/dfe-assumed-schools-had-280-devices-each-before-deciding-free-laptop-allocations/[/quote]
Wtf?! I think my school has 12. Except 2 are missing, and 3 are rubbish with no Internet capabilities.... Apparently we have been allocated 19 from the government.

I mean... it's another example of obvious stupidity but, even if it wasn't, it was based on an unrealistic premise. How can I provide my exist tech to students who are at home when I'm having to use it for the key worker groups? Equally, from September, how will I be able to send a piece of existing tech home with an isolating student when that is needed by everyone else still in school?
Honestly... 🙄

First thread about bubbles not including friends come September. I'm actually surprised as I thought school was doing whole classes as bubbles

Iam why would you need laptops for kids in schools, they can just use desktops.

While eating cake.

I think we're beginning to win Mumsnet. I feel quite heartened, which is a minor miracle compared to how it made me feel in April.

@noblegiraffe

Iam why would you need laptops for kids in schools, they can just use desktops.

While eating cake.

Of course! I forgot. They're on the third floor next to the dedicated art studio with built in kiln and opposite the recording studio. You can see the tennis courts and outdoor swimming pool from the windows.

I think a lot of people have given up on schools threads!

Wait till the first day back though for all the ‘my kid couldn’t even get to school because there was no room on the bus’ threads.

@SaltyAndFresh

I think we're beginning to win Mumsnet. I feel quite heartened, which is a minor miracle compared to how it made me feel in April.

Why's that Salty?

Probably just but I dunno, a couple of posters empathising and actually saying than you for the information.