The Twenty-Sixth Republic -Half Term Horror?

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I have asked but my ovaries make my questioning redundant 🤷‍♀️

@TheHoneyBadger

whether it's worth getting a gym membership

It was me. I joined a posh one yesterday. Swam this morning at 7am. It's ace. Going again on Wednesday, then will go 4 mornings a week until we get locked down. Ha.

Ah, I see MrsH. I used to have a hod like that. He didn't take any advice from me or answer any of my questions. I used to talk to one of the male teachers and get him to ask all the important questions that I needed answering. It was infuriating, but it did mean that I got my questions answered. My current hod is excellent, asks all of us our opinions and treats them all as being just as valid as anyone else's, as he should.

I’m still doing the occasional Joe Wicks 😍

This made me laugh though www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/celebrity/joe-wicks-fat-as-fk-20200922200723

We don't keep anything any more.

We never did. We say ‘you need to take it home so that you can use it for revision in the future’. Tests, books, whatever, I don’t want that junk in my room!

Every year HT makes a fuss about me having two days off to go to exam board meetings, and every year I point out my results, and every year he asks whether I'm passing on my knowledge to the team, and every year, I remind him who my hod is. And then he signs the form. It's embarrassing.

MrsHamlet - that's really crap. You'd have hoped that sort of situation would be history by 2020.

He was my mentor when I was a trainee and he was the same then.
It's partly that he doesn't care, and partly that he's stuck in his ways - he won't change texts or teach the new schemes of work that we've got because he doesn't see why he should.
We get decent results across the board but we could be way better. We think he'll retire this year but the fear is that they'll just pass it over to the second who has been created in his own image.

Had a reply and apparently the tlr roles being advertised do not come with added time or reduced teaching time. Totally contradicts what the union page (NEU) said as they said ALL tlr must come with allocated time. Anyway I guess that answers whether to apply.

Glad you went for it Goats

Blimey. Who applies for something with no time??

It's about £2800. No extra time or reduced teaching time and lots to do including being responsible for getting the school an accreditation in a certain area. Would require lots of time spent setting up and running some activities and a lot of communication and coordination with the people with the other new tlr roles.

I can't see how a classroom teacher could carve out the time as a lot of the work is with students ergo couldn't be done outside of school hours as many kids can't be in early or late because of buses but no reduced teaching time? Doesn't add up.

That's deeply odd. Is it open to non teaching staff?
If you applied, do you think they could be persuaded to free up some time?

I don't know. Think the email with the new role descriptions etc was to all teaching staff so I don't think so.

Will check the email tomorrow. I thought what I read on NEU said all TLRs must come with time allocations. Maybe need to re-read that too.

Morning all.

Have copied the link to this article in case the headline falls down the pages: www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-54695618

Some interesting stats on teacher positive cases but more so what we have been stating all summer - there will be a huge disparity on continued education. Wonder what the weather need schools open because of the vulnerable kids’ brigade will make of this?

That hideous Maths lesson plan makes me so happy I’m retired from secondary and work where I can do what I want and am left pretty much to my own devices. It also partly explains why many people who walk through my door can’t do the basics. Their poor brains have been fried by unnecessary navel gazing bollocks.

The DfE statement in that article is just gobbledegook! It is ridiculous that they would want to endanger their precious blue wall's future prospects in this way when solutions could be found, of they only wanted to drop their 'exams are fair' mantra.

Someone on the data thread said no one routinely captures data on infection and hospitalisations by job type. This seems a massive oversight if they genuinely want to mitigate risks. Obviously, therefore, people are going to keep banging on about teachers being safe based on that data in April/May.

Good morning.

That article is interesting- I do wonder about the summer exams AND the retakes next week. What will happen if the retake group have to isolate?

And as expected that article is no longer on the main BBC page.

I've had several different tlrs under 3 different headteachers and they have never come with any time attached. That's primary.

So on the 16 October there were roughly 2100 teachers with a positive test across England?

smile that happened to someone on the Facebook page I follow. They were just told 'tough you missed your slot. Do it in the summer'. And that was someone who had to SI because someone else taking the same exam as them a couple of days before tested positive...

@TheHoneyBadger no way would I take a tlr with no time allocated. There's just too much to do (even when time is allocated!).

We don't keep kids books/tests anymore either. When I first started at my current school, there was this bizarre system of teachers keeping books etc. The kids never took them home between lessons and once they were full they were stored in the teacher's cupboard in the classroom Now, kids are responsible for keeping and bringing their books and once they are full they take them home. Works far better imo and it's what we did when I was at school.

I'm feeling slightly peeved as I woke up yesterday with a rotten cold no covid symptoms just very bunged up. We are away for half term so trying to make an effort -managed a nice lunch out and a walk in some woods yesterday which DS loved. Think it's because I have relaxed and I am no longer running on adrenaline!

Have started a thread on the Coronavirus forum, hope it gains some discussion rather than being shot down immediately.

*In regards to the BBC article

Piggywaspushed really? That’s awful :(