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

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Welcome back Angelina .

Welcome back, @CallmeAngelina! I'll have the chocolate, thanks. Today was a stressful day! Basically no social distancing possible at all. Life is pretty normal at school, except assembly over the Internet and lunch in their classrooms.

welcome back Angelina.
Ooh whynot, I'd thought of using a visualiser to project exemplar work on the screen but hadn't thought I could use it just to view on the computer - great idea! (And must be some way of screen shotting it when it's there)

@CallmeAngelina 👋 I hope you used your time to reflect positively on your behaviour 😉

@Mistressiggi

welcome back Angelina. Ooh whynot, I'd thought of using a visualiser to project exemplar work on the screen but hadn't thought I could use it just to view on the computer - great idea! (And must be some way of screen shotting it when it's there)

I like it because I can just view on my pc and have a private chat, or display to the board if there is something brilliant to share. The only problem is they have to move around, which I can't allow in some classrooms due to where the pc is / distancing.

Of course. I wrote stuff down and everything.

@CallmeAngelina Ha!

@Piggywaspushed Thanks for that link - all those dots! I’m aghast this isn’t making the news.

Primary bods: what are you doing about teaching things like Music/Drama/PE. We've been told "no contact sports," so what does that leave? Music: clearly no recorders (every cloud, eh?) or singing (real shame), so what are you doing?

Actually, re: Piggy's map link, it's got to be several days out of date. My school's year group was "live" on Sunday, but it only appeared on that map the following Saturday.

Did children and teachers consent to being part of an exciting experiment??

www.imperial.ac.uk/news/203933/studying-coronavirus-transmission-children-could-help/

I think they try the best they can with the map but it must be a constant job!

I wonder when they remove pins too.

Yes, that's a good point. I will keep an eye on it to see when we are removed.

Music : 15 pupil limit for singing. We have xylophones/percussion rather than recorders.

And then sanitise?

My kids school are lucky enough to have a class set of ukuleles that they seem to be using. I'm not sure how they are sanitising them between bubbles though.

Yes, should have said that. They are used by other classes so sanitised by teacher and TA. We’ve never been fans of recorders, although there is a box of them.
For ‘proper’ music parents can pay for an outside tutor to come in before school or lunchtime (guitar and keyboards), which I think is woeful tbh. LEA music service is a shadow of what it was when I was child. We got to try out brass, woodwind and strings for free and a heavily subsidised loan or buy the instrument, plus lessons that went from primary right through to secondary. Not relevant to current circumstances I know, but just me on my soapbox 🎺

Tutors not currently coming in, of course. They switched to Zoom lessons in March for those who wanted to continue.

Hi Angelina
You can record from a visualiser... it was one of my lockdown discoveries!
We've been asked to set a week of standalone work for each year group so if it gets difficult and we need to send kids or staff home, we have instant work to send too. I'm just using stuff I would use anyway but chucking it in the class notebook where they can't see it unless I ping it out.

Our school music is awesome... our head of music looks like his world has ended since none of the lessons or bands can go ahead. It's so sad.

It's going to be a dry old curriculum, isn't it? I've only clocked up 2 and a half days this term so far, when we were still doing "getting to know you colouring-in rubbish" nearly said shit but we need to knuckle down soon.

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@CallmeAngelina - welcome back.

We have even had posts deleted within the Republic! I suspect U4T/DfE bods or Gav himself.

Is there a straw for the wine?

Welcome back angelina

[quote Piggywaspushed]Angelina you need this t shirt in your life
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Yep, put my name down for one of those.

And thanks for the welcome, guys.
(really)