The Twenty-first Republic - All back but for how long? Why is Big Gav still in post?

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If you are NOT staff and just have a general education query please start your own thread.

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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, especially if you have not used the hand gel. Close the door quietly on your way out and put your mask on.

Two confirmed cases in my secondary so far. Kids who have been in contact have been identified and are isolating.

Organisation has been superb tbf. Year groups totally isolated from other years right down to different stairwells, corridors and lunch facilities. PPE for staff if we want it. No marking and all homework to be set online. Cleaners throughout the day and SLT in each bubble each lesson. HT happy for staff and kids to wear masks in lessons if they want to. Staggered end of the day.

Local area probably going on the watch list tomorrow though and kids are dropping like flies.

@Augustbreeze - no slippages as far as I'm aware yet, although students are being pulled up shaking sanitiser straight off as soon as it's out on so that and lots of carpet in my bubble might help.

@RafaIsTheKingOfClay - our secondary are not, on the whole, doing science experiments. Certainly my year group aren't as they are not bubbled in a lab area. Only one year group based in the science department.

I hope all is okay with that student Piggy and you are having a well deserved cuppa.

The media are definitely not reporting schools not opening etc. Two schools near me have still not opened due to lots of pupils with too many positive results and another one where two year bubbles are now self isolating at home. All secondary schools.

But children don’t get Covid don’t you know!?

Update . Spent an hour and a half mildly flirting with a paramedic. Girl kept stirring then collapsingvagain. Quite alarming. Gone to hospital. Missed entire break and my year 9s in their first lesson were retooled, got lost and had no teacher for 40 minutes. Fun! Poor girl though :(

Ermmm, reroomed...school not that rough!

Lol @Piggywaspushed - could just imagine a group of year 9's roaming a school with shivs made from furniture legs with a pair of compasses attached.

Good grief Piggy
I've moved on from Covid rage to AQA rage this evening. FFS.

On the subject of mean/strict. A year 9 told me today I'm the only science teacher she has this year that she likes (triple so has three of us).

She HATED me last year. Removed from my lessons multiple times for arguing back and refusing to comply.

She has our new teacher - seen her twice and already decided she doesn't like her because she got a (deserved) negative in one that lesson.

I did point out that if she'd changed her mind about me maybe she should give her other teachers a bit of time.

But these kids go home and say 'Mrs X is so mean, she's picking on me, Mrs Y doesn't do that' and parents get the impression some of us are being horrible for laughs.

@Piggywaspushed

Ermmm, reroomed...school not that rough!

I don't know sometimes retooled sounds about right.

Why mrs? I saw some sort of email but was flirting busy.

Shakespeare and poetry compulsory. Choose between the two prose texts but BEFORE the exam rather than in it.

Oh. Wow. I thought before exam would happen tbh as they don't want kids confused.

Our school was keeping poetry anyway but some schools will be F-UMING

Bloody AQA have now decided that both Shakespeare and poetry are compulsory.

Oops, didn't refresh.

We've only got c19 left to teach so that's good but I think that's an easier question that the modern text.

In other news , someone in my year 11 is off with a 'very heavy cold'. We haven't been told at all as staff whether we are speaking to parents and asking them if they will get a test or not.

So first child sent home with a temperature. I don't teach said child till next week; except that he had to come into the class I was with yesterday and did an impressive roar of greeting in my face. (It was a friendly gesture.)

There was a bodily fluid incident somewhere too. Apparently.

Long list of schools in my region that have closed bubbles:

www.expressandstar.com/news/health/coronavirus-covid19/2020/09/10/the-black-country-and-staffordshire-schools-with-confirmed-coronavirus-cases/

It seems like only a matter of time before I’m hit.

We’ve taught all the Lit content but know my pupils wanted to drop the poetry. We do OCR and haven’t heard anything as of yet.

Ive just reported a thread hoping mn will comment and point out the rules. (i'll probably get banned instead.
So many saying things like
'My school said it has to be cough and temp'
Or 'my child coughs with every cold im not testing or keeping them off'
Fair enough persistent vs not is harder.

Maybe i should tweet it to Bj to say does he really think shielded people are 'safe'?
Dd1 said lunch supervisors have masks on, but not teachers.

Strict mean works. Three boys in my class were awful on Monday and Tuesday - rude, silly. Kept them in, consistent reminding. Spoke to one mum straight away. Today 2 of them produced amazing work and one came to show me something he'd done at home to win back my approval. Sounds awful but they really crave boundaries. Boy3 is now my hand sanitizer dose giver on the door and VERY strict.

I think it helps I am old - i'm the age of their nans! I haven't got the energy right now to fuck about with anything else. Bad behaviour is risky for everyone.

We have loads of students off awaiting results or sibling results. I only know because i queried a code in Sims.
I wonder if we will be told as a staff if any test positive and just close contacts are told to isolate. As we no longer meet in staffroom etc no "gossip" gets passed on.

And on illness - some kids off with "hayfever". Half my class are in with colds!

I only knew the child in my class was confirmed covid from the register.

Ofsted clearly don’t think schools are safe!

www.tes.com/news/coronavirus-ofsted-inspectors-fear-new-visits-wont-work?fbclid=IwAR2FptyBwfrEh7qVCj8BiB5ut9fp8wUeDkZtkkFscdZxGcOKeqNsnmmX94I