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

Hate to say it but the glutton for punishment that I am I read the fail comments. They are actually heat warming( I think I have had too much vodka)

They are saying the study is twaddle snd mocking it as data to suit the current narrative) and kids do spread it snd not one mention of a lazy teacher. Best stop reading.

They're awful enemies but great allies (dm readers).

Can't believe that parent can't even be fined. Shocking how selfish and immoral people are.

Supermarket trips were definitely off. Who is taking kids there anyway at the moment? (apart from people who have no other options).

My y9s today quizzed me on why they could be in a classroom but not see each other outside school. I had to no comment a lot.

MrsHerculepoirot just seen the video of that poor girl from this morning. That’s horrific thank god those women followed him and helped her

If you were an English teacher or citizenship (or did that fad die a death nationwide) you could have turned it into a teaching moment and gotten them to write letters to their local MPs. Maybe we should be writing their email addresses on our whiteboards?

www.gov.uk/government/publications/higher-education-reopening-buildings-and-campuses/higher-education-new-national-restrictions-guidance?fbclid=IwAR2tXKLdstmbO0YKufZ4w3Q96dnx748J5TdzX7bmMu5fycFMlwO8BtabeXg#student-and-staff-safety

HE guidelines

That Guardian article describes the experience at my school to a tee. Absolute farce.

Two days in and it feels like forever! Had to call in SLT support for a nose bleed in class today that normally would be dealt with by me. Crazy times.

Two days in and it feels like forever!

YES! Why is that? Weird time thing going on.

We've discussed sending our tricky customers home in the afternoon. All of them were on part time attendance last year, so it feels like a step back, but they are pretty much uncontrollable in the afternoons. Normally I'd feel that was a failure, now I just want it to happen.

@TheHoneyBadger

If you were an English teacher or citizenship (or did that fad die a death nationwide) you could have turned it into a teaching moment and gotten them to write letters to their local MPs. Maybe we should be writing their email addresses on our whiteboards?

My year 10 class told me yesterday that they'd all signed the petition to get schools included in the lockdown. They would be totally up for writing to their MP about it. I'm not sure I'm allowed to encourage that, but I could casually mention that it's allowed if they feel very strongly about it.

My year 11 nurture group asked a lot of questions today about why we're allowed to be at school when everyone else is in lockdown. When they asked if I wanted schools to shut I told them I'd be pushing for their class to be in school regardless because I can force them to do some work when they're at school, but I have no power to make them log on to the computer if they're at home. They all agreed that my job is easier if they're sitting in my classroom, and their class is small enough that we're all very distanced anyway.

Michael Rosen still fighting the good fight on Twitter. he isn't taking any shit.

Love him.

That Guardian article describes the experience at my school to a tee. Absolute farce.

Two days in and it feels like forever! Had to call in SLT support for a nose bleed in class today that normally would be dealt with by me. Crazy times.

Wow that sounds "interesting" in France, the title in the link made it sound like rioting generally, not lycée students!

That Guardian article describes the experience at my school to a tee. Absolute farce.

Two days in and it feels like forever! Had to call in SLT support for a nose bleed in class today that normally would be dealt with by me. Crazy times.

It's only Tuesday and I'm exhausted. Been in bed an hour already - will have to sort kids packed lunches etc in the morning. It feels very pathetic

That Guardian article describes the experience at my school to a tee. Absolute farce.

Two days in and it feels like forever! Had to call in SLT support for a nose bleed in class today that normally would be dealt with by me. Crazy times.

Michael Rosen still fighting the good fight on Twitter. he isn;t ake any shit.

Love him.

I'm also tired today we have (so far) got a full team in our faculty so no issue with cover etc. but crikey I am tired.

Went through term ahead with my NQT and that made me even more tired just thinking about it

Trying to focus on the positives of each day, so, today's positives are:

My Y11 class were good during first lesson and still pretty good during the second lesson. They are quite a tough group so this is good. One lad who is often disengaged/does little work did absolutely loads today and contributed orally

I got to share a positive assessment result with a Y13 who has many issues and has been failing. The look on his face made my day!

I do feel like I am drowning though I desperately want to focus on teaching and learning across the faculty and trying new ideas but there are so many things to do at the moment. It's the little jobs that seem to take up so much time. I am also feeling the pressure with the exam classes - feel like I am trying to cram everything in and the Y11 lot are not exactly full of motivation to do any work outside of lessons so I am stressing about them.

Is it just me or are there loads of repeated posts on here this evening?

Sorry going to be lazy and not post links but

BBC have the story of a supply teacher in Wales who worked although positive, put a whole primary into self isolation - she'd taught 5 classes!

Seen a couple of rumours / unconfirmed stories of councils telling CEV children and/or staff not to come into school.

Deaths are 397 today..... not good at all.

@CallmeAngelina

Is it just me or are there loads of repeated posts on here this evening?

Not just you, there's a thread about a dogs dinner that's pretty much unreadable there are so many duplicate posts.

@CallmeAngelina just seen someone on the Data thread saying same thing so I guess the answer is yes, although I don't think I've seen any!

August CEV staff at my school have been told to stay at home for the lockdown. I don't know if that is advice from the lea or whether it's just our head doing his own thing, but there are some very grateful staff around (not me, I'm not CEV, but some of my friends). I don't know what his response is about CEV pupils not coming in, but I don't personally teach any CEV pupils as far as I know (and I do usually know about most medical issues).

There's a thread about it in Site Stuff. They're trying to sort it out.

There's a thread about it in Site Stuff. They're trying to sort it out.

Ha Angelina, like the irony there, good show!