The Seventeenth Republic - The Pick Your Grade Show continues as we edge towards INSET days.

[StaffAssociationRepresentative]

You are most welcome to this school staff support thread to get us through stressful times. It is meant for school staff only – a sort of room of requirement. Baiters, haters, goaders 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 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
Do not give ‘The Every twat for Themselves mob’ the staffroom password as a number of them are operating in an alternative reality.

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 goad us then that is not allowed in the staffroom. Close the door quietly on your way out

Catch up funding question: I'm sure that it replaces the funding secondaries normally get for y7 who are below ARE. Am I imagining that? Where the heck have I got that from?

@MrsHamlet

That was what was said right back at the start.

Found it: www.google.co.uk/amp/s/schoolsweek.co.uk/dfe-says-axed-55m-year-7-catch-up-premium-will-now-come-through-national-funding-formula/amp/

So I need to clarify the rules around clay. And plasticine. As it's moist will it last longer on it? Can it be trapped inside it and still infect?

Genuinely need to know these things!

We'll all appear to back you @WhyNotMe40!

From the BBC report this afternoon posted by @Appuskidu earlier - the last sentence is interesting, n'est-ce pas? (Apols, any MFL teachers)

"Downing Street says there is no review of advice on pupils wearing face coverings in schools in England.

A spokesman said government guidance does not recommend wearing face coverings because pupils and staff will be mixing in consistent groups and masks could obstruct communication.

He added that teachers in England can make local decisions."

Isn't that a gateway for Heads?

I probably could have worded it better...

On the plus side, no catch up funding means I no longer have to waste time filling in a form in which I account for expenditure that I didn't have anything to do with so that the useless AHT looks vaguely competent.

@NeurotrashWarrior

So I need to clarify the rules around clay. And plasticine. As it's moist will it last longer on it? Can it be trapped inside it and still infect?

Genuinely need to know these things!

Only individual use plasticine was permitted at my school last term and then only for specific children.

It’s a moist plastic-type material that harbours threadworm and norovirus so I imagine Covid will love it.

@MrsHamlet We used to have ring fenced numeracy funding from Y7 premium money. Bet that will disappear.

Fuck.

Thanks saucery.

NTW and Saucery have just confirmed reason 35752 why I couldn't be a primary teacher 🤢

@WhyNotMe40

Hold my beer. Here we go!

Nothing good starts with, hold my beer

This is why sen schools are at particular risk.

herc that's where my thinking was going. I already don't have a literacy budget but I can see my intervention groups in y7 vanishing

@Piggywaspushed

Is any one brave enough to start a thread on which of our behaviours out of school should be morally policed and see what Batshit people come out with?

50 wouldn't like this as she basically believes It is all a hoax.

The poster under discussion has name changed but has been around a while. Very distinctive voice which is a lot like s

I created a thread a couple of weeks back along this line asking ‘why should I SD when I cant when I return to school’.

Had mixed responses.

@NeurotrashWarrior

This is why sen schools are at particular risk.

Yup. My DS is at one. I'm very worried.

@TheHoneyBadger - lol

@WhyNotMe40 - tough talking

@MrsHamlet

NTW and Saucery have just confirmed reason 35752 why I couldn't be a primary teacher 🤢

Yep. Luckily, DS was never a fan of the PlayDoh Corner and I always avoid getting right in there and helping make something

Also the reason why BluTac that has been appropriated by a child to play with under the desk gets put straight in the bin.....

www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/24/coronavirus-home-test-kits-run-out-in-england-and-scotland

Aaaaannnddd... perfect timing for back to schools. Home testing kits are starting to run out. In the most rural parts of the country, people are 2+ hours away from a testing centre. If they don't have a car, how the hell are they supposed to get to a test centre?

I tried to make my AIBU as neutral as possible but it maybe needed supplementary information

I couldn't teach primary. I just don't have the patience with all the toilet trips, he said she did squabbles, needy parents wanting 'a quick word' and now the play-dough plasticine - yuk!

I have a tough time being patient enough with some of the year 7s with their he said she said stuff! Could never teach primary

Oh. Brave ! R than me...

The main thing that annoys me is we are told we are low risk and basically can't get it . And then we are told we have to be extra especially vigilant.

They are just so delightfully Random, Staff! Especially Reception. If there was a job attempting to herd cats into a barn then I’d probably like that, tbf. And then they reach Yr6 and they’re ready to go up to Secondary and you can look at most of them and think “Yeah, we did a good job, there. They don’t bounce Duplo off their mate’s head or lie full length on the carpet because Storytime has finished “

How long do you think it would last in plasticine? Surely it would not be able to survive beyond a few days?