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

@MrsHamlet

The book marking thing is driving me mad. We've been told 72 hours before we touch them and another 72 before we can give them back. There's no consistency at all.

Our RA says no book marking at the moment. Assessments etc subject to 72hrs quarantine but we are not to touch books. Obv this will get updated as and when.

No collective staff meetings (in person)

Will they email out s summary?

@WhyNotMe40

Will they email out s summary?

I think so..

Thanks all. You're so right.

My oh's school has decided to keep the model of kids moving around the school as they think leaving pupils alone in a classroom presents significant risk.

leaving pupils alone in a classroom presents significant risk.

We lock our doors religiously at break and lunchtime because if the kids get in before you do, it's a mess and stuff gets nicked (projector remote controls being a really annoying one).

I'm not sure what is expected to happen now. Them to sit silently reading a book?

There is so much inconsistency between schools and expectations of colleagues. Another bonus of the govt / dfe passing the buck. I appreciate the need for schools to individualise certain parts of the plans but the differences I'm reading are crazy!

New tactic on noble's propaganda thread: to feign concern about her mental health.

Woe, truly is me.

If I'm on here, posting bombastically about how shit the government is, I'm actually fine.

@noblegiraffe

leaving pupils alone in a classroom presents significant risk.

We lock our doors religiously at break and lunchtime because if the kids get in before you do, it's a mess and stuff gets nicked (projector remote controls being a really annoying one).

I'm not sure what is expected to happen now. Them to sit silently reading a book?

Apparently ours will have head of years and SLT patrolling year corridors during changeovers, plus any spare warm bodies....silent reading and doors wedged open.

@noblegiraffe

leaving pupils alone in a classroom presents significant risk.

We lock our doors religiously at break and lunchtime because if the kids get in before you do, it's a mess and stuff gets nicked (projector remote controls being a really annoying one).

I'm not sure what is expected to happen now. Them to sit silently reading a book?

We do too. I imagine we will walk in to them all doing tik toks. I am not sure doors will be allowed to be locked now either.

Has anyone else seen this summary on the BBC and wondered why we are so different to everywhere else in Europe:

-Rules requiring Parisians to wear masks come into force as France reports 6,111 new cases - highest since peak of outbreak
-In Spain, children as young as six will have to wear face coverings at school
-Germans are told not to travel to high-risk countries and regions, as top state official says: "Corona is fully back in Germany"
-UK government will encourage people to return to workplaces in a new campaign

@noblegiraffe

leaving pupils alone in a classroom presents significant risk.

We lock our doors religiously at break and lunchtime because if the kids get in before you do, it's a mess and stuff gets nicked (projector remote controls being a really annoying one).

I'm not sure what is expected to happen now. Them to sit silently reading a book?

We are going open door,

I can see why but it essentially means no breaks for teachers.

@monkeytennis97

Talking about cleaning, marking, OFSTED, personal RA, collective responsibility, SLT drop ins, use of section 44.. loads of stuff.

Just adding

and something about a four box system of which schools are in which covid areas.

Can't remember the actual grading but
Very high
High
requires caution
and ok

Based on numbers per 100,000

which the NEU will put on a website at some point but will also contain local information.

WhyNotMe40

Does any spare bodies mean everyone?

Everyone not going from one lesson to another...

We have also been told we can work from home in a free period but only if we want to.

@CallmeAngelina

New tactic on noble's propaganda thread: to feign concern about her mental health. Wankers.

Or in other words, gaslighting. The usual tactics.

@monkeytennis97

Talking about cleaning, marking, OFSTED, personal RA, collective responsibility, SLT drop ins, use of section 44.. loads of stuff.

Am interested to know what they said about SLT drop ins!

I'd be interested in what they said about use of section 44? I think we will need to use this instead of striking.

There is a very dangerous poster on there who spouts libertarian nonsense as fact. Best ignored.

@WhyNotMe40

I'd be interested in what they said about use of section 44? I think we will need to use this instead of striking.

It was along the lines of

You can use it but you will have to do so carefully and be able to give/prove (can't remember which) that you do have real concerns.

I guess the one useful thing Jenny H and co said last week was staff spread it to staff. That should make heads reevaluate training day.

@Piggywaspushed

I guess the one useful thing Jenny H and co said last week was staff spread it to staff. That should make heads reevaluate training day.

I am dreading ours.

We literally can't do anything but be in the same room, though, Piggy because technology. Unless we stay at home where our tech is better because we provide it ourselves

@WhyNotMe40

Wouldn't a wipe with a detergent solution be better and less risky? As coronavirus is susceptible to detergents?

I've wondered this. A liberal squirt of washing up liquid?

I'll have to clean paint and clay etc off anyway.