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

Interestingly, that's the second private school I have read of in Glasgow - lots of public transport use.
Or lots of teachers like 50 there. (don't think she's in Scotland, but still).

I'm winning the department award for being over prepared

Also, @noblegiraffe do we know who @smeebles (not right spelling though) is, sounds like they should be on here!

@Augustbreeze

Wow *@noblegiraffe* that thread.... scales are definitely falling from eyes! And nice that some have apologised to you, although not (presumably) the perpetrators.

Can I just vent a little here as am trying not to do it in person? You know those teachers who somehow make it to SLT and no one understands why and they continue showing everyone why they shouldn't be SLT and why they definitely shouldn't be managing anything or anyone?

Just sayin' .....

We had a very cringe worthy and patronising attempt at a presentation from a new member of slt today. It was proper, I feel embarrassed for you worthy.

I fucked up when he came to our dept to introduce himself and bragged about how his school had assigned teachers to year groups for setting work rather than their own classes and I commented that it must have made differentiation hard with not knowing the kids. He waffled about differentiation by outcome and I laughed and said ha we were banned from using that phrase when I trained because it was seen as a cover your arse blag

It’s a very good job im not ambitious because I don’t even realise my foot is in my mouth till afterwards. I adore down to earth honest people who can handle you being the same but it’s definitely not promotion material. Guessing he hates me already.

The ADs are patting themselves on the back that they made the schools go back! Still frothing about muzzles though

No doubt we'll all get the blame, as teachers were so excite about going back, surely if they knew it would be like XYZ they should have said...

We had an email from the HT saying that tomorrow we must have our "game faces" on. But we will have no parents on site at all, so it's only the kids we will be reassuring (and rightly so).
But they do need to understand we can't lick each other.

Argh, hit post instead of return...

My HoD wandering in while I was labelling my 'resource quarantine' cubbyholes and said 'ooo did they do us stickers?'

No, I made stickers for things, because organisation is a form of procrastination.

I got myself all inwardly frothy actually imagining what she would have said to those teens who had been in and out of each other's houses, or how the conversation came up.

@Frlrlrubert

I'm winning the department award for being over prepared

I was the only person who’d thought of copy and pasting all of the year groups lesson and break times into a one page doc so you could comprehend your timetable. I felt like the over prepared person but everyone was like can you send that to me please.

I think I’d actually be good slt if the focus was making things work and clear and streamlined for teachers but translating slt gobbledygook into sense doesn’t merit tlr points

Quick question re local lockdowns: are schools still open as normal in those areas?
(numbers locally are causing concern)

@CallmeAngelina

Quick question re local lockdowns: are schools still open as normal in those areas? (numbers locally are causing concern)

I believe so. Although who the fuck knows what's going on these days.

Our Q&A response was the gov has said schools staying open is a priority and kw can travel across county borders even when there’s a lockdown and essential travel only.

In-school transmission of covid confirmed in 2 Glasgow schools (but not which ones).

This is apparently surprising news

But they do need to understand we can't lick each other.

Do you often lick your classes, Ange?

So my school says yes angelina even if teachers are traveling to/from an area of lockdown.

Either covid really is little to worry about in schools or we’ll be shutdown by half term. Time will tell

I'm primary. We talk in the plural.

Don't get me wrong, I actually have a lot of respect for most of our SLT and none of them were involved in that particular colleague's appointment.

Just wish they (non gendering here) wasn't responsible for our little dept and my little patch. Then maybe someone would have done something about the issue I raised in July, instead of waiting for me to raise it again this afternoon, in what is my unpaid time, then respond with "Oo, don't know, we'll have a chat about it tmrw" Grrrr.

I had a full day with my new year 7 form. They seem like a nice bunch, it's done them good to have a day without any lessons and without any other yeargroups. But omg!!!! My head is battered with all the questions they asked (most years I have year 11 mentors helping on the first day, but obviously not this year because bubbles, so I got all the questions they would normally ask year 11)!!! And we need immediate work on their "getting quiet quickly and listening to instructions" skills. And at least one of them will be finding themselves on the sharp end of my pointy stick if they don't learn to give me some space!!

Hopefully they'll settle in quickly and learn some independence. Or I might have to scream. At least I never have to spend a full day with them all together again. A maximum of an hour at a time from now on, and I can teach the older, calmer (?) kids.

All eyes on Glasgow then...

That “mine eyes have been opened” thread quite ridiculous!

@Frlrlrubert

I'm winning the department award for being over prepared

Well done - it’s means you can have a glass of wine

I laughed and said ha we were banned from using that phrase when I trained because it was seen as a cover your arse blag
You're awesome, @TheHoneyBadger 😂

Thanks Staff

I also organised all the remote work we set for lockdown and set up shared folders for anything further so we're not double/triple planning over each other if kids are isolating - no one had thought of that

That “mine eyes have been opened” thread quite ridiculous!
But at least the OP has 'fessed up to her previous ignorance of the situation. Fair play to her - she didn't have to.
Although now loads of people are coming out of the woodwork.

What I noticed was that she said that while she hadn't read the thread, she had noticed the title in active.

I remember saying before that's why I thought U4T had thread titles like 'schools are safe'.

INSET survived. Thanks again to the mini santiser to clip on lanyards - everyone wants one now!

Also ran round putting books in zones, emptying my room of everything I own because technically we no longer have rooms.

Think my school have done well with the guidance tbf - and a lot of honestly about just getting through, but keeping up standards, but all said in the right tone.

Have a sore throat now but think from stress, drinking less and dust in my room!

We have Y7 and y12 in next two days (I don’t work those days) then everyone on Monday for tutor time day so I’m now not in until Monday and no teaching until Tuesday!