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

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You are most welcome to this school staff support thread to get us through stressful times. It is meant for school staff only – a sort of room of requirement. Baiters, haters, goaders and bashers can jog on somewhere else.

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

You can play here if you are a member of one the following groups-

-ABBA - anti bashers and baiting association
-SWAB - school workers against bashers
-SWOT - school workers opposing teacherbashers
-STARS - schoolworkers together against ranting + slurs

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 and you will receive a detention

Yes, you should be able to see through the vents to the outside. So if there's a box on the outside wall, that's ok.

Just had this convo with Dh; I had the main door open and there's a fan so its probably ok.

After years of asking we’ve just managed to get air con in our non ventilated rooms and I’m pretty sure it isn’t coming from outside. Of all the years...

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@namechangedyetagain - get ready stuff goes in your first box, input into second box, plenary (meh) is the bit where you go through a reasoning problem for eg, or a question they found difficult.

Plenary? Is that when they put up the chairs?!

If a kid is off now waiting for a result and they get a positive in half term, then what will happen about the kids and teachers who need to isolate? Who will be responsible for telling them?

We don’t have bells in college so my plenary is usually “is that the time? Guess you’d better pack up”.

@MrsHamlet

Plenary? Is that when they put up the chairs?!

nobel I think we've been told to try to check in with emails occasionally.

presumably a member of slt will phone those affected.

Totally outing if any of you work with me...

Y12&13 are on a slightly different schedule to everyone else. Today I was reading to my y13 when the head stuck his head through my open window, so I held up my hand in the universal "shushing" gesture because we needed to get to a certain point. He just kept at it.., and then had to point out that my lesson should've finished already. Oops.

Plenary is when I say NO, PILE YOUR BOOKS UP OPENED ON TYE CURRENT PAGE! DO YOU THINK I'M MADE OF TIME?

@GravityFalls

We don’t have bells in college so my plenary is usually “is that the time? Guess you’d better pack up”.

Mine is wipe down the desks without squirting someones stuff.

We’ve cancelled all our bells and it’s really nice! With all the staggered starts, breaks and lunches they didn’t mean anything.

I don’t recall seeing anything in the info sent to parents about that ohthegoats. We get sent it all, in case we are asked outside of school, probably and Gormless is never a good look on a staff member out in the community.
Unless something went out on the online contact system this week? Poor SLT, because it will be them who have to be contacted. Our office staff do work part of the holidays though, so maybe they will pick up the messages.
Be a total ball ache if you’re on holiday somewhere. Some will not bother to test in the holidays, I bet.

We put together quite a few food bags of essentials today to send home to families for half term. School is not in an area where this is usually necessary. God knows what is happening to families in more deprived areas

oh I'm stealing "do you think I'm made of time?"
I also refuse to take in closed books or stick in the marking stickers we have to use... but many of my colleagues think I'm strange not just for that and that "it doesn't take that long"

I am genuinely disgusted

www.theguardian.com/education/2020/oct/21/marcus-rashford-clashes-with-tory-mps-over-free-school-meals

Open books in a pile, closed altogether, fits in the box exactly the same as a time consuming box of closed books would.

[quote Piggywaspushed]I am genuinely disgusted

www.theguardian.com/education/2020/oct/21/marcus-rashford-clashes-with-tory-mps-over-free-school-meals[/quote]
Currently arguing with a few Tory bootlickers on my local MP Facebook. He voted against it. Just when I thought he could not get any lower.
A few people saying on the parents responsibility to feed their kids. Mp pretty much said this in his title.
Clueless to the real world.

They just can’t stand the fact he is young, successful, black and articulate enough to take on their bullshit, can they?

@MrsHamlet

oh I'm stealing "do you think I'm made of time?" I also refuse to take in closed books or stick in the marking stickers we have to use... but many of my colleagues think I'm strange not just for that and that "it doesn't take that long"

Oooo think it would stress me out doing that. The year 11 boys would pile them up and crease pages.

We have to remark the extension questions anyway. So may as well start at the beginning.

My plenary is usually something like a handful of multiple voice summary questions so I can do 'hands up for A' or something.

Usually ends up as an extension for those who finish the main task while I help the less confident, gets skipped, or occasionally becomes next lessons starter if I feel like I've not assessed enough that lesson.

We're going to plan ahead in week chunks for provision for isolators next half term. I've been doing one lesson at a time and posting what we've done. It's made me realise just how much I wing it when they 'don't get' a bit and I have to loop back. Which is good I guess, because in NQT I would freeze in fear if we got off-plan and try to plough on without them.

Anyone want to read about unicorns?

schools.forhealth.org/risk-reduction-strategies-for-reopening-schools/

We have to remark the extension questions anyway. So may as well start at the beginning.

What fresh hell is this??

They’ve been taking pot shots at Rashford all over Twitter this afternoon. They really are a bunch of spineless, corrupt, dim-witted cowards.

Yes we've got rid of bells too.. it's really nice. My plenary (once I've realised I've overrun as always) is grabbing my spray bottle and leaping out the room saying "Gotta go" Alan Partridge style (the more Partridge I can get into my lessons the better).

@MrsHamlet

We have to remark the extension questions anyway. So may as well start at the beginning.

What fresh hell is this??

Its going back to your extension question written in each book. Marking it and maybe adding another question. This is literally every other page.