The Twenty-Eight Republic - Lockdown Light

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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

for monkey

Really hope you can see your boy soon.

My mum dropped into conversation last night that it might not be a good idea me seeing them for Christmas because my school is riddled with covid. I’ve seen them once this year so that’s super.

We seem to have quite a few cases in school - probably about 12 (out of 1500) so not masses but more than we had in the same amount of time before half term.

Today was mixed for me. Had a member of staff sick so had to sort cover (not covid thankfully) and another who realised at lunch that they couldn't taste anything so they had to go home and book a test

I feel as though I managed to tick off quite a few jobs on my list but still feel swamped! It's the seemingly little things that take up so much time like uploading work for isolating pupils, creating a questionnaire ready for virtual parents eve etc.

I am also trying to work out what to do for Y11/13 in terms of revision as we can't hold live sessions in school. Need to get organised with that. Possibly some narrated stuff on teams and lots of resources for them to access.

I think Wed/Fri are my favourite days atm as I teach most of the day so don't have time to focus on admin stuff (although that doesn't make it disappear ).

There also seems to be a lot more to do for form time this year activities that you really need to go through before delivering which isn't helping with time.

to everyone finding it hard at the moment.

@SmileEachDay

What doesn't help is that I'm sure year 9 are officially feral and year 8 are on the way there

We have some very challenging Y9 classes. Y8 are either lush or bonkers. And - bizarrely- we have a group of Y7s who are literally feral. They spend all day trying to roam the school like some sort of miniature Mad Maxesque gang. It’s most bizarre.

We've got one of those groups of feral year 7s too. I agree that it's really strange, they're so small but so arrogant and destructive. We're attempting to train them into our ways, but they are very resistant to our training.

So top 3 things: trying to get a timetable to see what fits where, finding a subject to plan a sequence of lessons in, and finding focus pupils.

I think once I know all that, then I can stress about the next thing!

Have taken myself off to bed as I'm faffing about, not really achieving anything and being grumpy with everyone in the process.

Tomorrow is another day.

they're so small but so arrogant and destructive. We're attempting to train them into our ways, but they are very resistant to our training

Yes! Exactly this! Do we work at the same school?

I think lockdown probably had a massive impact on these tiny warriors. They’re so angry and they think everyone hates them.

Tomorrow is another day.
Here's hoping it's better than today for all of us!
It sounds like we all had a shocker!

So top 3 things: trying to get a timetable to see what fits where, finding a subject to plan a sequence of lessons in, and finding focus pupils.

Great. None of that can happen right now. You have a list for the morning.

Cup of herbal tea; book; bed name*

*or gin, obvs

When I was at a different school with a usually excellently behaved intake, we had a shocker of a year 7 class one year who were just feral. They literally ran riot around school. And there were no behaviour policies in place because we had never previously needed them. It was so funny. I left before they got really bad and hit year 9

We have the same year 7 problem. Apparently my suggestion of a fight to the death with year 11 isn't okay cos COVID 🤷‍♀️

We have a core of gremlinesque y7s, bowling down the corridors like they own the place. Akin to those angry coconut things from Moana. The year 11s (also roaming corridors) pushed one into a toilet cubicle. It did calm them down for a bit.

Apparently my suggestion of a fight to the death with year 11 isn't okay cos COVID 🤷‍♀️

I reckon some of my Y11 girls could floor them with a look from a safe social distance.

Interesting that the Y7 problem is widespread (extrapolating 4 answers into a national trend in true MN fashion 🤣)

Sorry... Ours are lovely (I mean, apart from about two of them. Quite a low ratio.)

@MrsHamlet

We have the same year 7 problem. Apparently my suggestion of a fight to the death with year 11 isn't okay cos COVID 🤷‍♀️

I LIKE this plan!!! I have several year 11s who would be great in this new gladiator arena. They are our other problem year, boy heavy yeargroup, gang mentality at break/lunch. So a fight to the death would eliminate quite a few problems. I think the year 7s could stand a chance though, little, quick and not afraid to punch below the belt.

Well, to add to the stats, the Year 6s we've just sent up to Year 7 were beyond feral. They went through our school like a plague of locusts, laying waste to every (experienced) teacher they came across. A fair few of the "naice" kids were taken out by their parents, and the spaces filled by yet more "challenging" ones who were being "picked on" in their previous schools.
Last I heard, quite a few got detentions (or whatever the Covid equivalent is) on the first day and there have already been exclusions.
Well, we did warn them.

I’m thankful my year 7s are mostly lovely. Year 9 make up for it though. They are exhausting, chatty, entitled, self obsessed and most of all rude.

I pity the poor teachers who cover year 9 detention duty.

1 remember my suggestion of a weekly walk of challenge where the Y11s are allowed to throw insults and other objects maybe at the Y7s as they walk through a tunnel of big kids?** But yeah fight to the death where Y11 girls can only use looks (enhanced by massive eyeliner wings) sounds good too

2 no sign yet (I think) of @ohthegoats ☹️, which brings me to

3 Has everyone seen the thread lamenting @BigChocFrenzy's absence (OK so I've now made this a TAATAAT....)?

Oh why does MN sometimes change all your careful crossing through, underlining etc.... grrr

Yep. Year 7s are shockingly badly behaved where I am too.
I’m largely putting it down to the fact that we go to their classroom so they see it as their territory and we are just guests. It makes me so cross! The entitled attitude of many of them is shocking.

It’s just wearing thin after weeks of this now and not even being able to issue normal sanctions but just call home, which takes up sooooo much time!

They are going to be awful for the next few years aren’t they!? Sigh.

What happened to on thegoats? Banned?

Yes, but we're hoping it's just temporary, for a week, and that she'll be back soon.

Hopefully she will be back😢

'nother thread needed soon Staff....

So looking like I'm going to have to self isolate as DH has symptoms. Have ordered a test (we dont drive) and emailed head and now I'm anxious about it all.

Fingers crossed for oh thegoats.

Commented on another thread ffs, I need sleep!