The Twenty-second Republic - the DfE have no idea, Gav MIA, bubbles in and out

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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

I'm with you oh, unless they decide CV should wfh and nursery closes, we said that we'd try to keep going if it happened again. I can't wfh with a toddler at all though and would rather be in. Fewer children would be safer.

Yes the workload was what has been my main concern.

What on earth could happen piggy?

I can't actually teach my subjects very well from home either.

My GCSE and A level groups are literally about two months behind the programme of study. already neuro in terms of just covering content, not in intellectual development. I could get to the point where it becomes insurmountable. I have already had to change my whole teaching approach which is quite a sacrifice of depth and detail. I think my A* and A types at A Level will be OK but the rest will suffer.

Have reported the goady-as-fuck thread about teachers and redundancies (cause we're all shite and didn't provide work in lockdown) do you think it will be deleted?

No good. I did too. They don't think it breaks guidelines.

Thing is, the OP has totally spun a (inaccurate in itself) comment about self isolation from another thread and wilfully altered its meaning.

After the "how is his garden now?" post it was completely clear what the intention was. Not in good faith at all.

It's literally going over old ground...

Good article on why airborne transmission is what we have to minimise. Which isn't exactly comforting for us:

elemental.medium.com/the-most-likely-way-youll-get-infected-with-covid-19-30430384e5a5

@WhyNotMe40 - my daughter's teachers have put hyperlinks on satchel:one before for the students to click on and open a webpage - is that the sort of thing you mean?

I can't open that link august?

I've reported that one too, as not being worthy of debate.

There was a perfect answer in it - early on page 1. No point in reading past that.

@monkeytennis97 I saw your posts about your DS on another thread. Please don't feel you have to continue to put yourself through this. It is simply cruel to prevent you from seeing him and yet expect you to teach hundreds of pupils for weeks.

Try this one piggy
elemental.medium.com/the-most-likely-way-youll-get-infected-with-covid-19-30430384e5a5

@WhyNotMe40

On satchel I've posted a 'flexible task' for each group that just has the objectives for each upcoming lesson (I do them a document at the start of each module that has these and some summary tasks, so I've just attached that) and some links to bitesize. Then in the task I've listed what lessons will happen in what weeks.

I've done it because we're already having to provide work for isolators, and the centrally set year group work doesn't necessarily cover what they will miss in lessons (as in, it's often a totally different module).

We don't have timetables enabled, so I don't know about doing it that way.

Thanks
I shouldn't criticise my school, because they are generally pretty awesome, but I'm worried that we are not setting work for the self isolators. Apparently HOY will be dealing with this, but I haven't been approached about what my lessons are, so the ones off now (several in each class) are missing stuff.
I was wondering if I could say what each lesson is about through timetable so the conscientious could keep up. If I set them as a homework or task then the ones that are still in school and anxious will try to do them as well and get overloaded.
Am I explaining myself?

@SaltyAndFresh thank you. So difficult with DH and I both secondary teachers (can't say anymore than that as outing but circumstances make it even harder....)

Also, if I start putting stuff up on SMH that is not a homework, I might get pulled up on it as it is not the decreed procedure....
I'm already feeling a bit got at about a few things (not aimed at me directly, but stuff I and others were doing that was "wrong"), and also a bit got at by my kids' headteacher! Every time I've seen her recently I've been told I'm too early (picking up at the time the class teacher told me and I'm always early for everything) or waiting in the wrong place (having been told that the caretaker said to wait there), or for "lingering" outside the school (there were no other parents around as we were last out and I hadn't spoken to this fellow mum since march) despite us being socially distanced in the outside!
So I'm feeling a bit nervous about showing initiative!

Yeah I get you, Completing the objective/summary sheets is revision for mine anyway - so they'd hopefully do it eventually anyway. I've tried to make it really clear it's only for if they miss a lesson, and I haven't set 'tasks' as such.

Satchel is doing my nut at the moment. Year 7 can't just submit their homework, they feel the need to comment (some more than once) as well, so I have a million notifications to plough through to find the genuine pleas for help. At least they are doing it though!

Oh ok I get you. Yes I could do that, thanks

I understand about being nervous of showing initiative. I presented it to my HoD as 'I'm concerned about my year 10s as the isolation work will be different to what they are missing, so I've done this, I hope that's ok' and she was fine, but she's pretty good about most things.

To be honest I'll probably keep doing it after all this, as missed lessons are meant to be up to the student to catch up on in normal times.

@Mistressiggi

After the "how is his garden now?" post it was completely clear what the intention was. Not in good faith at all.

I hate that OP. She/he is vile.

My arse about that the amazingly tanned bike riding headteacher and his children...

Very good article August, thanks. But yes v worrying too.

I think we should be wearing masks as staff in primary if we wish.

Ditto on showing initiative. I have a y10 isolating due to a poorly sibling - she emailed me to to ask for the work. So I wrote the email and then thought I could film the demo in the lesson on my document camera - which I did. Now I think I could just put that all in class notebook on a page for the other 3 missing kids who didn't email. But then I become "that teacher" I already am. Why does it bother me?

Really good article, thank you! Fascinated by the return to ‘bad air’/miasma thinking after hundreds of years of medical research finding that wasn’t the case for other diseases.
MD in Private Eye has talked about the much more contagious measles too. The pandemic that would be really scary would be ‘Ebeasles’ - the death rate of Ebola with the contagiousness of measles. Although this current pandemic is probably enough to be going on with for now...

It always comes back to amount of virus present in a person and the viral load they are able to pass on to another person. Maybe wearing a mask at work, if allowed, wouldn’t be such a useless thing?

I've just read that article August. Such a shame that all the things they said are so important to protect ourselves are practically impossible to do in an ordinary classroom. Keep your distance and wear a mask, just not possible in many classrooms