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

@Cracklefraggle omg what a mess

This is the picture locally - tier3 NW. Feel so sorry for the kids

Cracklefraggle

Read half of the front page of The Times whilst queueing in the Co op just now, main article said govt thinks the young are now slowing down infection rates cos they've got scared? NE rates gone down and kept them out of tier 3 - neuro?

They cited the long Covid stories recently. I'm surprised if they've had that much of an effect.

@Augustbreeze possibly on students it's had an effect, highly unlikely on secondary age pupils I would have thought.

Ha, not the ‘young’ I saw down the road from DS’s school. In fact, I might just be ‘that’ parent and write to the Head about the behaviour I saw, egged on by the owner of the shop they were congregating outside. Bloody ridiculous. Perfect way to transmit Covid.
But then again, while I know the school take behaviour outside the gates extremely seriously, I’m reluctant to add yet another problem to their long list of problems, so I might not. They have a high number of staff isolating as well as pupils and I don’t want to burden them with an extra concern. Boys act like twats is hardly going to be news to them 🙄

Goodness me, have a read.

This is very buried info:

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/928749/Weekly_COVID-19_and_Influenza_Surveillance_Graphs_W43_FINAL.pdf

@Piggywaspushed just had a look am I looking at it correctly.. the uni outbreaks are tiny in comparison to schools?!

Relieved @TheHoneyBadger is secondary so I cant be her student
@13luckyblackcats its bloody hard isn't it. I've not even looked at my assignment this week. Partly because I'm too knackered. Have next week to get it cracked. Have been faffing too much this week. And i really needed sleep because i could feel myself going under on Monday.
Can't even bring myself to contemplate covid...

This is the picture locally - tier3 NW. Feel so sorry for the kids sad

Cracklefraggle yep very similar scenarios in our local school tier 3 North West to. Over half our staff self isolating now with two classes closed and from the remaining staff seven of us have children off isolating. It’s just crazy

My friend has had both her daughters sent home with a popped bubble in their classes.
She has now tested positive but kids are both fine 😢.

the uni outbreaks are tiny in comparison to schools?!

Well that’s one of the most worrying sentences I’ve read for quite so time feels worse reading while still waiting for Covid results

Blimey piggy that's all the schools data we were after. Have they been publishing it all along or is this the first lot?

Look at secondary compared to primary

And why is there such a correlation between age and number of cases??

@noblegiraffe @Piggywaspushed I hadn't got that far but then I did. My God 😢 What we need to find now is data on occupations for hospitalizations... awful though it is.

primary doesn't seem to have uploaded

Hang on, are primary and secondary pretty much the same? In terms of clusters/ transmission? Is that because there's more primary schools than secondary and it's clusters?

Wow those graphs! Shit.

I can't bring myself to start marking another set of assessments. I just can't.

They need doing for tomorrow.

I may have to wake up early and do them then because I literally cannot face another set now.

Pathetic but true.

Cross post with Nobel.

Funny how the primary data goes up in steps.

Funny how the primary data goes up in steps.

I mean a month of roughly the same, then a month of roughly the same and then a big jump up.

It's new noble.

I ask and ask on the data thread for occupational info but I just don't think it has been done since April.

Why is year 12 lower than 11 and 10 do we think? Smaller class sizes possibly? But that wouldn't' then explain why year 13 is higher.

Looking at a lot of that data it's clear that infections (based on symptoms) literally go up according to year group with x3 in yr 13 to y6.

However I also wonder if it's easier to keep primary in their bubbles? As actual 'outbreaks' ie ability to spread to a secondary contact in school is equal.

I know that a friend's daughter in y9 had 3 cases. Once they'd worked out who had sat next to who it was 71% of the year. So they all went home.

Yr13s more likely to say “fuck this, I’m 18, I’ll do what I want”? Not all of them, obviously, but enough to make the difference in transmission?
Or could be a quirk of data that just isn’t collected - siblings lower down the school, parent’s job etc?

In yr 12 you often get thrown in with people you don't know?

By yr 13 you're all snogging each other.

Some of this reflects social behaviour of children too. My son has more and closer mates now he's in y3 than in y1 and 2.