The Twenty Fourth Republic - conditions not great and are teachers becoming modern day lepers?

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I've not seen a plan for if we have a lockdown but it's impossible to teach live lessons from within school as we literally don't have the technology. It can only be done from home using ones own equipment.

KW provision would have to be by support staff or teaching staff in on a rota then wouldn't be able to provide live lessons, only pre-made ones.

I floated the idea of whole year group live lessons so that we'd have more staff for KW and in case staff are at home with kids isolating. Went down like a lead balloon with SLT. Seems they hadn't considered we'd need "extra" capacity.

Don't primary ONLY stop having all children in at tier 4?

It's only secondary (Y7 upwards) where anything changes, so I assume they think those children can be at home for the times they are not in school.

If we move up to tier 2 or beyond we will be live streaming if half in half out to KS4/KS5 (KS3 still be be decided). If we have whole year groups in and out then we will teach them remotely, but from in school, following our timetable.

We will also try to have more students we are concerned about in school following disclosures and concerns of some during previous lockdown.

I think the new tiers are nothing to do with the school Plan B tiers and those are now effectively abandoned.

The new tiers have schools open no rotas.

New tiers

I think the school tier thing has been and gone. Our SLT plans are in case of national lockdown upskilling to teach from home. They have accepted live lessons won't be possible for all.

Whole school or bubble isolating is currently normal timetable delivered from the building. Another (more affluent) academy in the MAT done this already and its gone OK. Worried about our engagement rate due to lack of tech.

But @noblegiraffe I was thinking that they'll eventually be forced to go to tier 3(?) ie rota learning, then probably tier 4 secondaries "close". Certainly in higher rate areas.

Must admit I'd forgotten that primaries never close. Allegedly. Because they're all going to have enough staff not sick or self isolating.....

@noblegiraffe

New tiers

Full lockdown except for schools and workplaces which will remain open.

So not a full lockdown then.

Leaving schools open at Tier 3 (or 4) is a bit like shutting the canal lock, but leaving the sluice gates open.

Full lockdown except for schools and workplaces which will remain open.

So not a full lockdown then.

Can't see how it will work due to the huge amount of adults mixing also. But maybe I am wrong and closing pubs will have a huge impact.

Well, it would prove infection rates generated by schools eh?!

Those aren't the same as the tiers the DfE produced in September though. I think we are all supposed to have forgotten about those. I haven't.

We are a stones throw from that here.

Must say it's making the commute easier.

House is messier as Dh is starting to wfh

Twatish blokes standing behind me (closer than 2 m) in boots earlier, one moaning about his mask the other not wearing one, definitely breaking the no mingling. Chatting (shouting) about a big bender tonight.

Not heard such a broad Geordie accent for a while despite living here, couldn't actually understand them bar "I fucking hate masks."

Great.

@Piggywaspushed

Those aren't the same as the tiers the DfE produced in September though. I think we are all supposed to have forgotten about those. I haven't.

Nor me! It is ridiculous that they won't even contemplate this. Surely it negates all the arguments and guff about a forgotten generation etc while protecting us a bit better.

Well, they were just done to shut Bousted and Barton up, it seems.

Watching Gupta again on BBC. I am sure she is very intelligent but honestly her arguments come across so poorly.

Just reading about a school close to me with 15 cases! 6 staff, 11 students.

Still none at my school, though...

We're having teams training (finally!) on Monday in preparation for the inevitable.

Read (via BRTUS) of a GM school (altrincham maybe?) where they had 5 confirmed cases in Y12 so burst the bubble. Then another 20 tested positive...

I've just been to aldi. Town is rammed - people falling out of pubs now because of the 10pm curfew. And we're in a local lockdown so I can't go next door for a cuppa...

My friend was just telling me about their kid's school which has had several bubbles sent home with quite a few staff and pupils affected.

They have announced they will be doing a deep clean over the weekend to solve the problem. Because obviously it's the dirty school that's the issue.

@Piggywaspushed

Those aren't the same as the tiers the DfE produced in September though. I think we are all supposed to have forgotten about those. I haven't.

This is probably the very reason for the new system. We've had stages, R number levels, the Nando's chart, tiers for schools, tiers for society and whatever the hell is going to come next.

It's all to stop us keeping everything straight and holding the Government to account for anything they have said.

@noblegiraffe

My friend was just telling me about their kid's school which has had several bubbles sent home with quite a few staff and pupils affected.

They have announced they will be doing a deep clean over the weekend to solve the problem. Because obviously it's the dirty school that's the issue.

We wouldn't be able to do a deep clean at our school. The only staff who have tested positive are 2 cleaners. They can't even get cover for them, let alone find more cleaners to do a deeper clean (our cleaners are pretty good all the time, but are now working extra hours to cover for the ill and self isolating ones so are knackered)

There was also the mobile testing that only seems to have ossiblt been to 1 school -maybe the one with 40 then stopped

@MrsHamlet

I've just been to aldi. Town is rammed - people falling out of pubs now because of the 10pm curfew. And we're in a local lockdown so I can't go next door for a cuppa...

Even the continuued use of the word 'lockdown' is a psychological ploy. Our original 'lockdown' wasn't the same as the lockdowns we'd seen on the news from other countries. These local 'lockdowns' don't actual lock down anything. The only change is that you can't nip to see someone else in their house.

It's absolute joke. Everyone needs to start calling it what it is, which is a localised minor restriction. If we'd have locked down properly in the first place, we wouldn't need this constant stream of bullshit that we're getting right now.