The Twenty-Sixth Republic -Half Term Horror?

[StaffAssociationRepresentative]

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

I always thought it said fire doors could be kept open on balance against the importance of ventilation. People seem to misunderstand fire doors. The ones which are to allow access to the outside can be opened anyway, surely? Ones which are there to stop fire spreading are different, but can still be open when rooms are occupied and then closed when unoccupied.

You're speaking in English. They're reading in moron

Hah, think you are right, MrsHamlet. It happened again even after I posted.

I forgot to acknowledge that awesome post

@FrippEnos our Scottish friend again? Just seen some humdingers on the NHS threads.

A lot of my colleagues read in moron. It's a source of constant frustration.

No it's not even the Scot

And why are people so determined that "There's been no cases in my DC's school!" when what they mean is, there's been no symptomatic cases for which parents /staff have decided to get a test, who subsequently informed the school if it was positive!

A lot of my colleagues read in moron. It's a source of constant frustration.

I need a recording saying "read your effing email".

herc yes. I'd also like to ban some people from "email all staff".

If it hadn’t been for the end of term letter from my daughter’s school, I would have assumed they’d had no cases, as they haven’t put any letters/tweets/fb posts out when they’ve happened. I thought it was strange that we’ve had 5 and they’re bigger than us.
Turns out they’ve had 8 cases.

Only our head can email all staff.

I was talking to a mate at another school who said their inbox was clogged with people wanting to sell stuff or who couldn’t be arsed to select ‘Y8 tutors’ or whatever and it sounds like a massive waste of every teacher’s time.

@Augustbreeze ah I've seen it now!🤦‍♀️

We can all email everyone - which can be really useful. But it does mean that the super annoying PE teacher emails everyone everything that comes into his head.
We have "teachers of child x" emails as well as year group etc groups and still some people email everyone.
I have a special inbox place in hell for the super annoying PE teacher.

We can email everyone. Usually it isn't abused. I hate the "teachers of x" people... Just use SIMS properly and only email the relevant people.

On that note I share a surname with a male teacher in a different dept and we are forever getting the wrong emails. We also get the wrong payslips and people ask me stuff about him all the time. I barely know the guy, why assume we're besties because we have the same name.

@Danglingmod - we have electro magnetic fire doors in our long corridors. They are kept open all the time but as soon as the fire alarm sounds, the magnets release and the door swings shut.

@MrsHamlet

A lot of my colleagues read in moron. It's a source of constant frustration.

I caught myself telling a colleague to read the words on the page not the words he thought were there a couple of months ago.

Turn out that even if you think you’ve designed paperwork that is idiot proof people will still write random numbers in boxes.

@noblegiraffe

Only our head can email all staff.

I was talking to a mate at another school who said their inbox was clogged with people wanting to sell stuff or who couldn’t be arsed to select ‘Y8 tutors’ or whatever and it sounds like a massive waste of every teacher’s time.

We can email everyone but we have to be mindful that conversations are better in person and no selling stuff.

My last school was terrible you could email the whole trust one guy accidentally emailed the whole trust his appraisal begging for a payrise. Embarrassing.
Lots of any spare boxes emails too.

At least he’s not the person who e-mailed the entire NHS, or the people who kept hitting reply all to tell people not to hit reply all.

He's the kind of person who would email the whole NHS!
In my whole school roles, I often have to email groups of people and it bothers me the number who reply to the group rather than just to me. It's not a problem but I'm not sure all 22 people needed to know about your very specific issue with your timetable.
We do have serial "reply all" people too - one recent one was the art dept looking for scrap newspapers. Several people replied to the whole staff to say that they recycle, so no.

You mean your lovely librarians don't save up their older than a month papers for the Art dept to collect periodically, @MrsHamlet ? 😱

I'm in charge of the library and we no longer buy newspapers because we can't afford it. The librarian has to be prevented from buying them from her own pocket - her budget is pitiful.

Ah. Understood.

It makes me really angry - as a trainee 22 years ago, the library was the heart of the school. Now we're scrimping on newspapers.

I actually think we need a major dialogue about what a school library is for in the age of t'internet. Our non-fiction section is meaningless to most of our kids - and we're a very academic school with lots of kids from naice homes.

(I don't say this to the kids of course!)

Ooooh I got confused and joined a diff thread at first. Just marking place.