Temporary broom closet in lieu of staff creating a staffroom

[TheHoneyBadger]

Just in case she got lucky and is in the one school that still goes to the pub.

Signed (it show you the first names of the last five people who've signed, "I wonder if that's any of us?" I thought as I read them!)

Thinking about it, the heads making all staff come into school to do remote lessons, and, in a different way, the schools with so many children in it's virtually business as normal, and the fact that schools are being told to provide a full home learning experience, all parallel what's happening in other workplaces, making staff need KW places more than last time.

@JanuaryChill

Signed (it show you the first names of the last five people who've signed, "I wonder if that's any of us?" I thought as I read them!)

Lol, one was probably me ;)

Thanks all.

Mental calculations have us at about 100 staff including kitchen and receptionists plus over 100 kids. (Most children go in taxis shared with 2-6 others) So we are like a current half full small primary tbh. So it feels like it should be for all primary teachers.

But thank you anyway.

Our gaslighty twat head has now decided that all TAs, who are all in school all the time supervising the KW/V children, while teachers are teaching live from home, must do focused interventions too. They must deliver these via Teams during periods of time when the children are not receiving the live content. To children at home as well as children in school.

Needless to say, said gaslighty twat is in his office with the door shut.

Is my can-do attitude lacking here, or is he off his twatty head?

Heard today that some non-frontline NHS staff are being told not to supervise their dc’s online learning if working from home, that they should send their child into school. Personal, but reputable source with no axe to grind (their dc require no supervision). No thing like a bit of joined up thinking in this mess, is there?

@noblegiraffe

My DH has just pointed out that Geri Halliwell is now a children's author.

I'm not sure why he has been following her career so closely.

This made laugh out loud and made my DH ask why. What books has she written?

@cornercupboard

Our gaslighty twat head has now decided that all TAs, who are all in school all the time supervising the KW/V children, while teachers are teaching live from home, must do focused interventions too. They must deliver these via Teams during periods of time when the children are not receiving the live content. To children at home as well as children in school.

Needless to say, said gaslighty twat is in his office with the door shut.

Is my can-do attitude lacking here, or is he off his twatty head?

Off his twatty head. We have been told under no circumstances will TAs be required to do that. If we are asked to do so we are to refer parent to the Head for further explanation as to why we will not be doing that.

I also laughed at nobles aspersions.

Our kw numbers are modest so far. Tomorrow I have an hour with year ten then with year 8 and am hoping they're still small groups.

One of the year 10 I was with on Wednesday told me he was still there because his mum is a social worker who can work in the office but has decided she prefers working at home but can't have him at home in case he hears anything confidential so the poor sod is stuck in school everyday and she won't even drive him so he's walking a mile and a half each way.

@Hercwasonasnowball on that desmos you shared it told the students if they got it right or wrong. I've managed to copy it for a similar ordering activity from what you had, but I am struggling to get it to do similar for multiple choice questions. I've tried looking through the computational layer stuff, but I am at a loss. Have you done that, or do you have an example of one I could work it out from?

Stand down @HercwasanEnemyofEducation I've done it sorry! I found the Q&A section for doing those things and everyone else has asked my questions on there!!!!!

Guess who is spending ALL day making their lessons for next week....

@TheHoneyBadger

I also laughed at nobles aspersions.

Our kw numbers are modest so far. Tomorrow I have an hour with year ten then with year 8 and am hoping they're still small groups.

One of the year 10 I was with on Wednesday told me he was still there because his mum is a social worker who can work in the office but has decided she prefers working at home but can't have him at home in case he hears anything confidential so the poor sod is stuck in school everyday and she won't even drive him so he's walking a mile and a half each way.

Just checking you are aware that tomorrow is Sunday?

On BBC website:

Prof West, a participant in the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviours (SPI-B), which advises the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said the new variant of Covid is around 50% more infectious compared to the virus that infected people last March.

"That means that if we were to achieve the same result as we got in March we would have to have a stricter lockdown, and it's not stricter," he said.

The professor of health psychology at University College London, also told the BBC more children were going to school, compared to the first lockdown and he said schools were "a very important seed of community infection".

'Seed of infection' is quite different from 'reflecting community rates', isn't it......

Our school definitely feels like a 'seed of infection' - we're rammed with KW children!

@TheHoneyBadger

I also laughed at nobles aspersions.

Our kw numbers are modest so far. Tomorrow I have an hour with year ten then with year 8 and am hoping they're still small groups.

One of the year 10 I was with on Wednesday told me he was still there because his mum is a social worker who can work in the office but has decided she prefers working at home but can't have him at home in case he hears anything confidential so the poor sod is stuck in school everyday and she won't even drive him so he's walking a mile and a half each way.

Working weekends again?

If it makes you feel better MrsHP, I've been up since 4 planning and still not finished, did go for an hours walk but otherwise pretty solid.

It's like being an nqt again 🙁

Trying not to look at facebook as everyone else in school seems to be out biking and hiking.

@cornercupboard

Our gaslighty twat head has now decided that all TAs, who are all in school all the time supervising the KW/V children, while teachers are teaching live from home, must do focused interventions too. They must deliver these via Teams during periods of time when the children are not receiving the live content. To children at home as well as children in school.

Needless to say, said gaslighty twat is in his office with the door shut.

Is my can-do attitude lacking here, or is he off his twatty head?

That's a twatty head.

TAs are the lowest paid teaching staff.

Just had a video call with DS. It's been two weeks now (since Boxing Day), probably won't get to see him for many more weeks.. this is going to get harder again Right I need to focus on upping my steps!

Doh! I've lost track of days again. 4 days alcohol free hasn't helped my brain it seems.

Sorry Monkey that must be really hard. Struggling with not seeing adult DS who lives away from home, even though we only see him every couple of months anyway, so likely wouldn't be seeing him anyway, it's just the fact that we can't that makes it worse. Can't imagine how tough it is for you xx

Do we think staff has gone in search of Gavin and met the same fate?

@HarrietDVane

Our school definitely feels like a 'seed of infection' - we're rammed with KW children!

We are too.

Have a glimmer of hope that the scientists are saying this lockdown not harsh enough. Something needs to be done and quickly some primary schools are so full it is very dangerous.

@EvilEdnasEnemiesOfEducation

If it makes you feel better MrsHP, I've been up since 4 planning and still not finished, did go for an hours walk but otherwise pretty solid.

It's like being an nqt again 🙁

Trying not to look at facebook as everyone else in school seems to be out biking and hiking.

oh no! but me too a little re nqt!

I've got a few ready to go, spent hours on a desmos one, just because I wanted to play with it and the topic was more revision with lots of activities that could be interactive.

I've got about half done, my further maths class i'll most do with visualiser I suspect this week so just need to get everything organised in the right place so that next week I'm not faffing about and getting in a state on the day. Because I am main teaching staff teams support I won't have any free time I suspet as we are teaching everyone not just exam classes.....

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/the_staffroom/4130777-The-Forty-First-Republic-Gav-encourages-parents-to-report-schools-to-OFSTED?watched=1&msgid=103469080#103469080

Open for business now that I have stopped seething about Gav. There is no arguing with stupid