The Twenty-Seventh Republic - rules or guidelines - Pandemic or Pirates of the Caribbean

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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

Ooh I missed that! Congratulations Marplemead

On another note - this is probably being cynical - but do you think all the teacher warnings / not helping schools / not giving a crap about education workers - is because we are mostly women? Education is increasingly seen as "women's work" along with childcare, care work etc. Could misogyny be feeding it?

Interesting choice of language on bbc news re schools

'Allowed to be open'

PM set to announce month-long England lockdown www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54763956

So private schools ‘allowed’ to be closed?

I’ve spent a cheery afternoon watching The Omen and Dawn Of The Dead (remake). Bit of light relief from everything!

Might have to dig Shaun of the Dead out .

I've just spent an hour carving fucking pumpkins for the younger dc. Anyone got any recipes for using them up?

I’m not going to watch the press conference. It’ll depress me. I already feel that my career choice makes me expendable. I’m going to crack open the gin, make halloween cakes, dress DD up, feed the kids with sweets and watch Hotel Transylvania as opposed to The Omen as I am a “responsible parent” 😆

[quote monkeytennis97]PM set to announce month-long England lockdown www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54763956[/quote]
Thursday start? Fingers crossed for my hair cut.

Dc dentist texted last week to cancel their check-ups. Couldn't get them there before closing during term time so this has been booked for a few months now . Wish I'd done it at the start of the half term!

I have the telegraph live channel open on youtube and set to remind me when boris goes live.

Going to be beyond surreal to see everything else closed down (including my really safe, socially distanced, wipe down your equipment yourself pre and post use gym that is keeping me sane) and us piled into packed classrooms as normal.

No you can't go to the gym, shop for winter boots for work, go for a pint or buy a kettle but you CAN be rammed into crowded unventilated buildings with members of a thousand plus households.

So impressed with that set up.

Congratulations marple . Love little squishy babies! They were the best days.

Rest of the news is rather depressing today isn't it? Contemplating a glass of wine in a bit as my assignment has been submitted. Next one has been released but I'm not worrying about that today. Still worried about going into school this week and the lessons i need to teach but again, that's a worry for tomorrow.

I wonder what will happen to childcare? I literally rely on friends and GPs to collect my youngest from school. I'd be well and truly stuck if that can't continue.

@motherrunner

I’m not going to watch the press conference. It’ll depress me. I already feel that my career choice makes me expendable. I’m going to crack open the gin, make halloween cakes, dress DD up, feed the kids with sweets and watch Hotel Transylvania as opposed to The Omen as I am a “responsible parent” 😆

I don’t watch them. I catch up on the distilled whiteness of their essence on the BBC website later. I will never take the gin out of my online trolley again. 😞

Starry hope your friend pulls through.

I can see why they think they can leave schools open but they are ignoring crucially the parents working in nhs/care homes etc...
Also leaving unis open where some are living at home.. Where they will have siblings at school etc.

Invite me if you move to fb etc

It is worrying when complete misinformation is allowed to stand.
Even things like it's no worse than flu

I think people should be a lot more concerned as if another virus hits say like the 1918 flu which hits kids then what is to stop gov still enforcing attendance.

Meant to say congrats Marple. It is very stressful being pregnant following a miscarriage - I didn't really relax till the 20 week scan. If I were you I'd tell the head now and pre-warn that you are experiencing a lot of anxiety due to previous pregnancy losses. It may be that you need some time off or you may (hopefully) be absolutely fine but I'd prewarn.

‘Whiteness’? Shiteness, ffs. I changed it once, stupid autocorrect.

I have the Shaun Of The Dead theme as my wake up alarm on Alexa, DreamingOfBrie. It suits these times so very well

I guess they will have to keep childminders and nurseries open for keyworkers, there's no alternative.

What they will say about grandparents who may fall into vulnerable groups.... don't know.

"Allowing schools to remain open" surely only has any meaning for private sector. Unless it's just the journalists' phrase in recognition of the childcare service provided?

As someone said upthread, they won't close secondaries (yet) because then they'd have to Do Something about Exams.

Congrats from me, too, Marple. Some lovely news in the midst of all this shite.

Ds's Uni is still all face to face. I hope they go online as he lives at home and dh is ECV. It's bad enough with me out in the scrum of a secondary school every day.

Our dentist still isn't seeing any patients whatsoever and hasn't since February. Private. We are still paying.

@namechangedyetagain

Congratulations marple . Love little squishy babies! They were the best days.

Rest of the news is rather depressing today isn't it? Contemplating a glass of wine in a bit as my assignment has been submitted. Next one has been released but I'm not worrying about that today. Still worried about going into school this week and the lessons i need to teach but again, that's a worry for tomorrow.

I wonder what will happen to childcare? I literally rely on friends and GPs to collect my youngest from school. I'd be well and truly stuck if that can't continue.

If you've already planned them (and have your printing in a file on your desktop and a note in your planner for Monday telling you how many copies of what you need if you're me) then forget about them till you get up on the morning you are going to teach them and then glance over them to remind yourself that you do know what you're doing.

At some point tomorrow I will open my planner and year group folders (I have a folder per year group with an exercise book in which I write quick lesson outlines with timings and in which I plonk the resources I need) and check I do still know what I'm doing tomorrow and do know what I need to print off and then I'll sleep easier.

As planned, and worked for, I haven't done any marking this half term and only planned one lesson because I need to squish two lessons into one to get my year 9's back on track. The plan is to try and be super organised and efficient this half term too so come any closures or (being optimistic) the end of term I am on track and not trying to chase my tail.

We have interim reports due soon so I am saying that 'out loud' on here to remind myself and will try and get ahead of myself on those a bit this week and 'try' to use parts of lessons where kids are actually on task and not asking a million needy questions (ha ha, that's so unlikely) to be looking around the room and reminding myself who they are and getting their behaviour and class effort levels entered.

Have the glass of wine. I've just poured a whiskey and soda.

You couldn’t buy sanitary products from one Tesco Cardiff store last week - dangerous 😂 but teaching well that is okay

I've got my hair booked for next Saturday. Boo. Next one not until December 19th. I'm going to have hellish roots by then. Again.

Most important issue, obv.

Most concerned about swimming though.

Thank you so much for the well wishes

DH has taken DD to a friend's for Halloween, so I am alone waiting for the briefing. I will be ordering an Indian takeaway as I watch - I've been craving one all day.

Briefing moved to 6.30!? His time keeping is shit; I presume he’s watching the rugby.

@TheHoneyBadger school haven't actually given me a laptop to work from

But yes nearly time for that dying P

Dying???? Hope not. A drink . A drink is what's needed.

Austria are switching secondaries and unis to distancing learning.