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.

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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

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But is doesn't split the education settings down...

I agree dangling.

@Piggywaspushed

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But is doesn't split the education settings down...

Ah right, I misunderstood.

Presume this is part of the ‘blame the university students’ game?

I have a non covid related question.

We asked staff to do a dual coding course during lock down. It took around 40 minutes. It is/was important in relation to some changes we're making in school around notebooks and powerpoints. We had a whole day inset on this stuff two weeks ago, which linked directly to the dual coding course.

A member of my team has not done the course, despite being asked to do it 4 times. He had 6 weeks of term time during lock down to do this, and a morning inset time to do it. I've asked him to do it this week. He is producing really crap stuff for children to look at, and we share planning, so I end up having to re-do it all. I'm talking major grammatical errors, things that introduce misconceptions and so on. This is even without some of the dual coding stuff being involved. I want him to do the training so we can discuss some of the elements of it, and link it to the improvements needed in his planning.

In SLT tonight I said that I was going to ask him to do it AGAIN, to which three of the other people in the meeting went on and on about overloading people with CPD in their own time at this 'tricky time'.

My head nearly blew off. On this basis, right now it's not OK to expect marking or displays or any planning outside of directed time, right?

During lockdown, this teacher produced 6 lessons. Total. He has mostly spent the term moaning about how things aren't the same now he can't spend his time cycling around the countryside.

That heatmap rather suggest less of a problem in the 10-19 age group

Yep - the tweet thread (response 3) gives loads more info. We should be worried about how we're not testing anywhere near enough in the 10 - 19 range.

twitter.com/Dr_D_Robertson/status/1316770275875344385

Did I say less of a problem? I meant a BIG problem..

It's either not testing enough or a rampant R in teens. I vote the latter.

Definitely not testing enough. So many of our coughers are only going off once parents test positive. Kids just aren't getting tests themselves, even with symptoms.

I think the heat map downplays the 10-29 figures.

The test positivity thing is pretty shocking. I just went on twitter and there was a promoted tweet from the DfE saying your kid definitely doesn't need a test if they don't have one of the three main symptoms so send them to school. Can't think why we don't have a handle on school outbreaks.

It is just such blatant spin. It's appalling. Because kids tend not to get very ill they know they can get away with it.

He was hoist by his own retard last year when he ran to the head to complain about my marking. He had evidence and everything to prove I was failing the kids. Sadly he was looking at the wrong mark scheme

That’s amazing

twitter.com/Dr_D_Robertson/status/1316775457988186113

Here.

Can you screenshot the actual positivity graph noble? Because that's the really stark one..

My head nearly blew off. On this basis, right now it's not OK to expect marking or displays or any planning outside of directed time, right?

During lockdown, this teacher produced 6 lessons. Total. He has mostly spent the term moaning about how things aren't the same now he can't spend his time cycling around the countryside.

So he's a lazy mofo. What can be put in place if he doesn't do the training / shape up within a specific timescale?

This one, piggy?

No, I just don't know how to. In the surveillance report...

@ohthegoats, can you share a link to the dial coding course please?

pages 11 and 12 of this :

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/926846/Weekly_Flu_and_COVID-19_report_w42.pdf

Do you know what Pillar 1 and 2 are?

The rest of it I'm not sure I can do and not even 5 weeks in yet

You might want to rephrase that to the more sensible sentence, "I'm not sure I can do everything yet because I'm ONLY 5 weeks in". Give yourself a break and a large gin. you must be better than the one i'm dealing with

Gin drinking is S8.

Goats - that's shit. It irks me when people are given special treatment like that. Our two golden child colleagues are always allowed to get away with stuff that the rest of us don't get away with.

@MrsHamlet

Gin drinking is S8.

Goats - that's shit. It irks me when people are given special treatment like that. Our two golden child colleagues are always allowed to get away with stuff that the rest of us don't get away with.

We have those too. So annoying. One rule for them....

[quote Piggywaspushed]pages 11 and 12 of this :

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I so wish these graphs were broken down further to school and college Students.

Pillar 2 is your ordinary testing. Pillar one is PHE labs, usually from hospitals. But also healthcare workers and care homes, I think. My top secret local facility is Pillar One.

The saving grace of my job is that I work in a really lovely team. I have to travel 30 miles and 50 minutes to get there but I'd take that over working for an arsehole ten minutes away every time.

senecalearning.com/en-GB/blog/free-cognitive-science-level-1-cpd-course/

Dual coding as part of the above.