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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 booze is stashed - Thirsty Tuesdays, Fizz Fridays now in operation.

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

Well, after a decent start to the week I now have several kids across several classes isolating (we send home close contacts only).

I have set work for today but going to have to try to plan with this in mind to ensure ppts are detailed enough to upload to teams to save having to plan twice. Lots of them are Y11 too

Goodness knows how much they will actually do and keeping track is a nightmare!

@Keepdistance yep, it seems fairly obvious that a half term week where the weather is atrocious across most of the country would put people off going out for tests, but the media are just crowing about how numbers are falling.
Surely the daily infection numbers are kind of irrelevant anyway, since a lot of those people wont actually be ill, it's the hospital admissions and deaths we need to be looking at.

The infection rate I posted is from random sampling of the population not people going for tests.

If there is a slowing, it means closing schools has an impact. It also shows that kids are catching it in school. Some were claiming that the rate would increase more over half term because in schools they're in bubbles and social distancing

NE will Be interesting as the rate had already started to flatten before half term.

@TheHoneyBadger

I kind of don't have thoughts anymore whynot. I'm back to the resigned to whatever stage of the response cycle.

Fairly glad it's Friday though.

This is how I feel, tired, so tired of it all. Fed up of thinking about it all. I'm primary, we are in a high risk area. Our school has seen several year groups/classes out some more than once. We are absolutely not 'covid secure' and I'm so tired of smiling, reassuring parents and children and having work as the only place I'm allowed to go to every day. It's tiring as well as boring!

My thermal vests and masks have been tracked down! To say that’s the highlight of my week shows what a fucking horrible week it’s been
Thank goodness people in rl don’t react like MNers if a parcel is mistakenly delivered to them, that’s all I can say

So, most final exams have just been cancelled here in France and we’re moving to 50% distance learning for upper high school (years 11-13) as of Monday.

Very glad I’m not SLT at the moment.

What a wild ride this all is...

Staff room was packed today because two departments have been kicked out of their areas for deep cleaning to take place and have to go somewhere and they couldn't print, work or eat anywhere else. Probably not that wise at all but It was actually nice and sociable and morale boosting.

Tfif!

Lying on my sofa with a glass of fake baileys contemplating watching some Outlander. I'm very lucky that my support household has invited us over for Sunday dinner so we do have something to look forward to this weekend. Definitely another perk of being single is I get to see my best mate

It’s Friday at last.

Honey. If it’s dust mites/ Monod spores have you tried an anti histamine as well? That and the brown inhaler might be enough to get on top of it.

Seretide is the alternative to fostair. My guess is they’ll up the brown first, if needed, then go for fostair if that doesn’t work.

That sounds like something to look forward to, Honey!

Trainee complained that I gave her too much feedback again 🙄 She needs it! But fine, I will stop making an effort to help her. Really resent wasting my groups learning time though.

@FrencheFancie thank you for keeping us up to date

Is she still putting NA in the differentiation box?

@RafaIsTheKingOfClay

It’s Friday at last.

Honey. If it’s dust mites/ Monod spores have you tried an anti histamine as well? That and the brown inhaler might be enough to get on top of it.

Seretide is the alternative to fostair. My guess is they’ll up the brown first, if needed, then go for fostair if that doesn’t work.

Yes I take antihistamines every day as dust gives me hives and schools are filthy.

@TheHoneyBadger nothing worse than an annoying trainee... when I did I mostly had brilliant ones but had one or two who were persistently absent or just wouldn't heed any advice. Happy not to be doing it at the moment.

We have the testing pilot here now and my school is now part of the ons study. This will be interesting

Thanks rafal posted too soon and didn't say thanks.

She's literally unbelievable. Never seen such an unsuitable candidate

Lying on my sofa with a glass of fake baileys contemplating watching some Outlander.

Sounds like my dream evening!! I have much love for Mr Fraser !

[quote monkeytennis97]@TheHoneyBadger nothing worse than an annoying trainee... when I did I mostly had brilliant ones but had one or two who were persistently absent or just wouldn't heed any advice. Happy not to be doing it at the moment.[/quote]
Are bursaries still a thing? Is that why she wants to be a teacher or does she think shes great already? Sorry shes adding to your workload/stress especially at the moment.

Got through this week, feeling shattered and saw throat so hoping it's nothing to be concerned about. Staffing levels are already getting interesting and our HT is having to get in supply which they never like to do.

Just bumped into secondary colleague who showed a photo of their room with 2m space... whereas today I had to once again prevent a child hurting another- cant do that from 2m.

Other local primary ht now out as t&t.
And cp in nursery and reception. Im suspicious that it isnt cp. And also if they cant stop that spreading . My dc has been vaxxed luckily so if it's going around the LA. Cp is apparently similarly contagious as measles as in hangs about in a room. Could they not engineer covid to always have a rash?

Parent at pickup saying their other dc nursery had a case so their dc was isolating for 2w. (I hadnt seen that in any news..)

Even shutting a whole school for say 7d for each case would have a good effect on overall numbers. And would probably end up with less days missed in the end.

The R0 number for CP is 10-12, it’s way more contagious than Covid. I kind of know what you mean about covid having a rash though. It just needs one very obvious and specific symptom that can’t be mistaken for everything else that’s going around.

I've had a really, really rubbish day today. 2 safeguarding disclosures and a staff member cried at me before we even got to break!! Then the icing on the cake is a child who was in my lesson yesterday is now self isolating because a family member tested positive. There is no way that family member only started with symptoms after school yesterday but already had a positive result by 9am today. You can't get tests that quickly here at the minute. So that child was in my lesson yesterday knowing that a family member has symptoms and they should all have been SI. I'm so angry about that. And I'm worried about the kids who told me their safeguarding stuff. And I'm worried about the crying TA. (And I didn't get any lunch because my whole lunchtime was taken up writing up these incidents ☹️)

@MsAwesomeDragon

Fake Baileys Dragon? I also have some black currant gin ready for draining if you'd prefer.