The Eighteenth Republic - More U Turns On The Horizon? - INSET Days and travel problems

[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.

No DfE muppets allowed

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

I am a nasty little poster apparently.

Sorry for worrying about my parents who O live with

I live with! My nails.🥶

RigaBalsam

I have noticed more and more over the lockdown that those that are name calling are name calling because they don't like being questioned.

And they are also not used to teachers standing up for themselves.

At last! A head speaks out!

www.msn.com/en-gb/news/newslondon/leading-london-headteacher-attacks-dizzying-ministerial-advice-on-masks/ar-BB18sBAw?ocid=spartanntp_edu

riga you are not nasty and nasty little poster speaks volumes about the person speaking.

Thanks both.

Agree it is to shut the debate down.

Oh Riga I really hope you don't let it bother you.

Insults from fuckwits are par for the course, it really isn't a reflection of you as a poster, except that they can't actually argue with what you are saying.

Insults from fuckwits are par for the course, it really isn't a reflection of you as a poster, except that they can't actually argue with what you are saying.

This //\

If they could attack your arguments they would. They can't, so they attack you instead.

My eBay visors glasses style arrived this morning, so far so good.

Hercwasonaroll

Would they fit if you already wear glasses?

They sort of sit on top of my glasses and seem OK to wear. I've had it on 20 mins now and it's been OK. Little bit warm but for short periods of time near students I'll be happy with it on. I don't think I'd use if at the front just because it does impede voice projection and light is bouncing all over so with a projector screen it would be worse. (my eyes are v photosensitive).

Trouble is, those posters name-change all the fucking time, (although I confess I did so briefly earlier) so it can seem as though there are many more bashers than there in fact are. Some of them stick out like a sore thumb though.
Haven't seen our middle-aged mate around the last day or two.

Boo they moved my post to the CV topic meaning the vote has gone.

Can I ask you secondary daredevils something?

My friends son has had a call from school and they've said he is dropped from one of his A levels because he got a 5 and offered him alternatives which he didn't even study at gcse.

All of his teacher assessments on go4schools are 6's or 7's. They deliberately spoke to him not his parents. And now they are not answering her emails or calls. He's a good lad who got 7's and 8's across the board and is very STEM. He is distraught because he's in a corner now with no time to find another college and stuck. Any useful advice? I'm assuming they are oversubscribed but surely they should have accepted his teacher assessment as a 6? Unless his CAG was a 5? I really feel for him.

I'm assuming phleb that his CAG was a 5 because GCSE students weren't told their algorithm grade. Because of the uplift, I think sixth forms may be now faced with too many pupils and have to come up with ways to cull.

There is still time to find another college though, Y12 kids switch a lot throughout the first few weeks of term. He needs to get on the phone to see who else will have him.

@noblegiraffe

Boo they moved my post to the CV topic meaning the vote has gone.

Can you not complain and get it moved back?

Which subject did he want to do and want does he want to do after A levels? Also which other subjects has he signed up to?

He signed up for physics, biology, maths and geography and they've dropped the biology and offered him dance or food tech!
I've told her to look at colleges but it's pretty limited due to rural location.

Those are very odd alternatives to biology, but most students only do 3 a levels, so he'd be fine with just physics, maths and geography (I'd strongly recommend against doing 4, most students drop one in the first few weeks usually to get down to 3). Does he need biology for a future career? If he wants something extra to do I recommend an EPQ alongside his 3 A levels, or possibly further maths if he is very strong mathematically (at least a 7 at GCSE maths, preferably an 8).

Had anyone else heard anything from their SLT yet? We usually have a few bits by e-mail by now. Nothing.

I get the sense ours are waiting for the other shoe to drop too.

Someone on Daily Numbers has found the age range of the study which says children rarely seriously ill: 0 - 19 yo. So that would seem to be good news, although as piggy pointed out, it was done when shielding existed and many children weren't exposed to the virus as they will be in schools.

@BelleSausage

Had anyone else heard anything from their SLT yet? We usually have a few bits by e-mail by now. Nothing.

I get the sense ours are waiting for the other shoe to drop too.

We've had our inset day agenda sent along with strict instructions not to move furniture or gather in groups. Inset day is over the internet but with us all in the building. I assume we'll find out extra information on the day, I guess they are waiting to see what changes the government make first.

Thanks for the advice - i've passed it on. What a cock up this year has been for so many students. I'm so thankful I don't teach gcse or A level anymore. I was never very good on results days. At least year 6 don't tend to give a toss about sats!

There is an NEU meeting in about 45 minutes.

Be interesting to see what they say.

I do wish Us For Them would have a secondary and primary group. All their arguments are primary focused , and it means secondary concerned members are constantly fed misinformation.