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

[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

Warning: the new tactic is to post all reasonably and to scold teachers for their unreasonable behaviour in being pissed off at people who have been bashing teachers for months. Seen it on at least two threads today.

Don't let it wind you up. We know who they are.

My commute is about 20 minutes normally. I always think 30, but at least 5-10 minutes of that was dropping dd of at the childminder. So now she's not going there anymore I'll be at school earlier.

MrsH I'm in Cumbria too, curious to know how close we are. I know you aren't in my school but you could be in one of the other ones nearby.

Today was fine. Our year 7 are the weakest we've ever had apparently, with several who should really be in special school but parents want them to come to us. I'm so incredibly glad that I only have a year 7 form and don't actually have to teach them anything! The one way system round the school is bonkers, with not enough entrances into the main building, although there are MANY exits because of all the fire exits that are being used. Again, I'm very glad that maths have our own building, with one very easy route through the building.

This photo from the Daily Mail made me laugh. Could it be any more staged? Those kid aren't in a lesson, they've got no books and the classroom is in the middle of being tidied! From the bag at the front desk, I don't even think it's that bloke's room!

@noblegiraffe

This photo from the Daily Mail made me laugh. Could it be any more staged? Those kid aren't in a lesson, they've got no books and the classroom is in the middle of being tidied! From the bag at the front desk, I don't even think it's that bloke's room!

And only half a class in, as usual!

Both my kids are asthmatic and are full of cold. I bet they both have coughs by the time they start back

I was puritannical about handwashing (I’m rocking dishmaid hands again already) and was loaded with the cold after a week. It’s like being a nqt again.

@noblegiraffe

No one seems to have a clue how teaching is actually going to work.

Maybe that will be covered tomorrow.

I think I was meant to cover that today. But no one has told me so I haven't...

@MsAwesomeDragon I'm right at the bottom. We don't even have a CA postcode!

I'm jealous of all your commutes! Mine is an hour and a half. Worth it though - I love my school.

Oooh! Fellow Cumbrians!!! I am also not a lover of the shit roads that is spend two hours a day on (pretty as they may be!), no CA postcode here either AwesomeDraggon... I know MrsH isn’t from my place as we don’t have teams... but maybe we know each other! Haha

Yay for surviving day one all those that were back! Good luck to those heading in tomorrow!

I've never done a car commute before. Always walking, tube, bus or bike. So that will be weird (and probably quite nice!). Depending on the road and the time I leave it will be between 25 and 45 minutes I think.

My commute is about 45-50 mins, more if I leave after 7:05 precisely. Don’t mind it, lovely drive through Yorkshire’s beautiful countryside, and I go past my first school where I felt sick every day going to work, and even now ten years later I think “thank fuck I'm not at X school”

Warning: the new tactic is to post all reasonably and to scold teachers for their unreasonable behaviour in being pissed off at people who have been bashing teachers for months. Seen it on at least two threads today.

Ah, yes, but what keeps me amused is that they think jupp is one of us! They don't get that a non teacher might be a witty anti teacher basher. So, they get all affronted at our behaviour as teachers.

Ooh er cheesecurds - we could be catchment competitors!

The city has taken COVID as an opportunity to go ott on bike lanes and closing shorter residential routes, adding about 10 mins to my commute. Usually about 20-30 mins.

There was very little traffic today, so it was 15 mins. It would be almost 10 if no traffic! I used to cycle but I have too much stuff to carry now and kids to pick up and drop off, which is tighter than ever as after school club is shorter than before.

I'll be interested to see how traffic is next week.

There's been a HUGE issue with bike thefts though so no one has a bike / wants to cycle...

more if I leave after 7:05 precisely

I have that issue too. If I leave at 7.10, I'll be at school by 7.30. If I leave at 7.15, I'll be at school by 8. It's mad.

It's half 8 and I'm about to go to bed. I don't really have a plan for tomorrow other than to have a chat about covid, talk about rules, do some colouring, talk about rules some more and wash our hands.

We already know that lots of kids are 'stuck' abroad in Saudi, India and Pakistan.

My area has done that, NeurotrashWarrior. One man with his arse hanging out the back of his pants and one postal worker pushing his bike up the hill on the pavement is the total number of cyclists I have seen using them 😀

Due to the staggered starts for classes I haven’t a hope in hell of being able to park when I get to work. I’ll be circling the block for 20 mins.

MrsHamlet maybe, but I still like you

@cheesecurdsandgravy

MrsHamlet maybe, but I still like you

Aw... that's made me all smiley!! My actually colleagues probably want to burn me at the stake a lot of the time.

For my maths teacher colleagues so they can share my pain:

Foundation kid. Algorithm 6. A-level Maths.

My commute is about 30 mins. No traffic, it's nearly all narrow track roads with passing points and B roads till I get to the village/ small town. If there's a flood it's a bugger as the commute then becomes an hour and a half. But usually I love it, I see hares, owls, stoats, weasels (who are bloody kamikaze), buzzards, badgers and kingfishers quite regularly. Nothing makes me happier than a hare crossing. It can be a bit hairy (not harey - it's all gone a bit Withnail here hare here) in fog, ice or rainy dark though. Lots of water to end up in.

Well done for those that acted as tribute today!

As the SENCO, I think my colleagues would just like me to shut up

@cheesecurdsandgravy

As the SENCO, I think my colleagues would just like me to shut up

I think you might be my SENCO - she says that a lot too!!