The Nineteenth Republic - DfE guidance issued August Bank Holiday Weekend!

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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 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

My nieces have been going to a youth club once a week for the past month. 3 hours, no social distancing, full contact sports being played. Mixing with kids from 4 schools other than their own, from a mix of year 7-10. They've also been volunteering at a food bank (good for them!!) But the food bank aren't enforcing social distancing either, so they are in relatively close contact with the recipients, although obviously not for very long.

If all teens are socialising like they are then once covid gets into the teen population it will spread like wildfire. And yet, teachers are being set up to be blamed for spread in schools.

So all the panicky ‘schools need to go back for the kids mental health’ posts were SAHMs meaning ‘schools need to go back so I can get back to having a twix while watching Loose Women?’

And yet, teachers are being set up to be blamed for spread in schools.

Like the “teacher on a pub crawl” thread.

The first day the kids go back to school... I am too!!

to be fair, I found all those things hard too 🙈

The don't seem to realise that if effective SD and hygiene measures are in place that school will close again pdq.

I fucking ate loads of chocolate mind you. Not sure what they're one about there!

I think the ones clamouring for a full return with no social distancing are a subset of SAHMs who attended that anti-mask protest on Sat and are now busily sending that wanky letter to heads about how temperature checks are mimicking a gun being pointed at a kid’s head.

My teen has only socialised once, and that was a SD walk with a mate.

He has been helping volunteering with a project at the local college, which has also been SD, obviously the magic spell hasn’t been cast on the walls yet.

Yes noble. It ahs been apparent form the start that the anxiety was not in the DCs. It's all projection.

Anyone seen this thread www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/4010404-SATs-at-Year-7 official externally assessed SATs for Y7?

I’ve not heard anything about them (but then I’ve not heard anything about anything).

That gun thing is possibly the dumbest fucking thing I’ve ever seen written on social media and that’s up against some STRONG opposition.

Just got the results back from DS’s COVID test - he’s had a cough for a couple of days, but accompanied by copiously runny nose/sneezing so it’s just the usual change-of/season cold a bit early. So it was negative of course, but I didn’t want to go out and about with him coughing. Results were back in less than 24 hours though which is good! Sent me into a bit of a mental tailspin though as their primary is saying no children to be sent in with any cold symptoms at all - he’s a massively snotty/coughy child and always has been, but it doesn’t really affect him at all. Any cold symptoms just linger with him for ages. When I think about the implications of this I start to feel all the blood pounding in my head so I’m ignoring the huge elephant in the room for as long as I can! Don’t think SAHMs have quite the same level of worry about these things.

I must confess dd2 has had 2 sleepovers in the past couple of weeks. Both with the same girl, who is her best friend and will be in her bubble at school, sitting next to each other if they get their own way.

Other than that we've socialised with 2 other families, at a distance. It will be very, very strange for dd to mix with so many people on Wednesday. We've had to go out and about to more busy places this past week or so in order to desensitise her a bit. We've been to Primark, bowling, McDonald's, clothes/shoe shopping and a zoo. We've both felt quite antsy about being with so many people at once. Dd has selective mutism (as yet no diagnosis, but she definitely has it) and had been improving so much at school, but I'm convinced lockdown has set her back a long way. I do worry about how she's going to cope with being back at school.

@MsAwesomeDragon

I must confess dd2 has had 2 sleepovers in the past couple of weeks. Both with the same girl, who is her best friend and will be in her bubble at school, sitting next to each other if they get their own way.

Other than that we've socialised with 2 other families, at a distance. It will be very, very strange for dd to mix with so many people on Wednesday. We've had to go out and about to more busy places this past week or so in order to desensitise her a bit. We've been to Primark, bowling, McDonald's, clothes/shoe shopping and a zoo. We've both felt quite antsy about being with so many people at once. Dd has selective mutism (as yet no diagnosis, but she definitely has it) and had been improving so much at school, but I'm convinced lockdown has set her back a long way. I do worry about how she's going to cope with being back at school.

My dd has been out a fair bit as the weather has been lovely. Always outside though and just in the local green area.

I think she has struggled but I think she would have equally struggled at school. It's more her age and hormones.

The first day back thread is a kick in the teeth and negates all the Twits for them rubbish.

and that letter beggars belief. Reads like a joke.

Oh the 6 in a pub thread is lovely, too. All the different ways you can flout all the rules to go out fro a drink with multiple households.

What is the teacher's pub crawl thread?

“Our local secondary is now delaying opening for a week after a group of 40 (yes 40!) of the students went to a Greek island a few weeks ago.

18 have tested positive on return. So all sports clubs in the area also off for the moment.

It’s actually quite worrying for our town. We were down to hardly any cases and I worry how much these teenagers have spread it before they realised.“

Taken from this thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/4010372-That-was-quicker-than-I-thought

Those SAHM’s better enjoy that first child free cup of coffee!

Piggywaspushed

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4010405-To-think-teacher-shouldnt-have-done-this?msgid=99606039

We’ve had two families over for coffee in the garden - socially distanced for adults and kids, and we’ve met another family in the park and the kids played on the play park with DD who really did stay at least 1m if not more away from the other families kids. DS has ‘socialised‘ (played computer games) with two friends separately, both times sat either side of the room so 3+m away from each other.

We wouldn't go to a 4 day week as we are child care. Too many workers would still need a Friday with kids in school.

Whether we ourselves could do a 4 day week and coordinate between staff, but still offer 5 days, could be a possibility. Otherwise we'd potentially loose the amount of teaching jobs we currently have.

I just don't get where the parenting has gone with huge groups of teens going on holiday like that.

Yet another class of 6 children!

Imagine trying to get any Covid behaviour sanction to stick with the number of aggressive deniers on here!

How did all those Zante teens become aware there was an outbreak? Not asymptomatic, I presume?

Must admit to slightly agreeing with pub crawl OP.

But not because it's a teacher. Just because I think he sounds an arse.

Any teacher who has students as FB friends and such lax privacy controls is an arse anyway, surely?

A couple of them got symptoms.

How old do the kids have to be before you can stop doing "holiday news" on the first day of the year (to see just how many of them have recently got off a plane)?