The Twenty-fifth Republic - circuit breaker before/during/after half term

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Sorry about your mum piggy. Being far away is so hard and

So sorry to hear about your mum, Piggy, it's shit not being able to go to her. Look after yourself .

Sorry to hear your news @Piggywaspushed. I hope your mum recovers quickly xx

So, if I don't have to self isolate with my entire class, I don't have to feel guilty about not imposing quarantine on myself at the weekend, do I?

I have a present for you all to weep over

schoolsweek.co.uk/dfe-closes-covid-attendance-loophole-6-weeks-into-term/

Read the bit about remote learning …

Thanks for your well wishes. My sister says it is now declared a chronic bleed on the brain. More news to follow. I never speak to my mum. She bizarrely lives in two different apartments and is very evasive about who she is with when. My sister and I are relatively estranged, albeit amicably. She lives 3 hours from my mum but I guess is with her at the moment.

Thinking of you Piggy

www.tes.com/news/covid-nine-fold-rise-secondary-student-infections

Very sorry to hear that piggy.
Sending you best wishes

Oh God when Johnson said about catching asymptomatics my heart leapt.. I thought finally they are going to mandate masks in secondary schools... but no

We are going for masks from Monday. I can’t see how they are going to work. Everyone has to sanitise hands to put them on and sanitise hands after taking them off. The timetable usually has classes in the same building to protect bubbles. Pupils will do all this palaver then walk 10 feet and do it again. We are going to lose even more lesson time.

If my DH wasn’t about to lose his job I’d be walking out now.

I'm so sorry to hear about your mum piggy 💐. I hope your sister keeps you updated, and that you have done hopeful news soon. It must be so hard being so far away. 💐

We've had masks in corridors for weeks now. Nobody bothers with sanitising hands before and after putting it on/taking it off (we do try!!!), And my lovely year 7 class were surprised they needed to wash their cloth reusable masks, as in at all, ever. I've got enough for one a day then wash at weekends, but they thought they could just wear one mask over and over again without ever washing it at all. They're getting better about putting them on automatically when they leave a classroom/enter a building. I think it's easier to remember than it is to listen to the nagging and telling off for not wearing it. Our kids are pretty biddable anyway though.

Sending good wishes to you and your mum, Piggy.

Piggy just read about your mum so sorry.

I had a nose in the class "worry box" today and saw that a child had written that he was relieved his mum was now better after having Covid!!!!! He's been in school all along!

Definitely had it recently call?

OMG Ange that’s worrying. Fingers crossed it’s not what it seems.

That attendance loophole article (thanks piggy) - DfE making schools report on how much feedback they're giving remote learners.... for pity's sake!!!!!

Case in sixth form notified today. Reading between the lines of what's been sent out, they must have come to school with symptoms for a couple of days, or possibly while awaiting a test result... fab.

Hard to tell. This is the same child who told me his mum also had cancer - and then self-corrected and said, "Oh wait, I might mean asthma!"
But I showed the Head who shrugged, put the note in her drawer and said, "Nah, doubt it."
We're doomed!

New thread on the NEU call for school closures.

Hopefully as it's secondary and colleges, You4Us won't give a toss as they're all primary.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/4052530-NEU-calls-for-two-week-closure-for-secondaries-and-colleges-following-leap-in-infections

Oh piggy - thinking of you and your family.

Thank you for that schools week link. Jaw dropping stuff from the gov

Sorry to hear your news @Piggywaspushed

Child in my bubble awaiting test result. Their mum already has a positive result. Looks like I may have to isolate for most of half term. Bollocks

Sorry to hear your news Piggy

So we went into to tier 3 today. Literally not a school around us without cases and some schools being forced to close.
How can people not see this is what is coming when cases rise. So many saying “oh we haven’t had any cases”.
Had the local hospital on the news tonight and they said they are weeks away from being full. It’s unbelievable schools are carrying on as normal

@starrynight19 you need to tell the idiots that on Noble's NEU thread. Not sure I've got the strength for it tonight, just got wound up by a You4Us on another thread.

We've gone from the HT saying that county level bods were confirming we def wouldn't be having any kind of a circuit breaker around half term due to the kids being safer in school, to now today asking if we were all still set up with our new classes to switch to online learning as he's pretty sure we will be having some sort of extension to half term.

We're to find out from an announcement on Monday apparently.