The Twenty-ninth Republic - lockdown light continues & good news for Welsh students

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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 staffroom password just in case it attracts the wrong sort

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 come with a stick to goad us then that is not allowed in the staffroom and you will receive a detention

I rarely go in ours - first thing, when it's empty to fill up a small flask of milk and get some water from the cooler. I have a plug-in cool box and travel kettle in my room, so I spend the rest of the day in there. People come to visit me and sit at a distance for a gossip.
We haf our first staff meeting since mid-March this week. We sat in the dining room, about 3 metres apart from each other.

All the kids that tested positive in my class and the year down were asymptomatic and only tested because of siblings or adults getting it. That's what is worrying me.

Our staff room is normal, ppa is still onsite in the tiny ppa and we still have full staff meetings although now - whoop de fucking woo- they are in the hall.

A bit of me sort of wants to get it now rather than when the hospitals are on their knees.

Jeeze flumposie.

Similar thing happened at a friend's school, the family were waiting for 3 tests and they sent the teen in to school.

All three positive and so track and trace said to assume the child was so bubble closed. (Not clear if child later tested positive.) Cases rising quickly there though so I don't know if that's usual.

I can’t detail the day I’ve had today because it would be outing but bloody hell.

You ok noble?

Was literally just thinking about you Noble, refreshed the page and there you were. Hope you are ok x

Yeah I’m ok thanks, it was a bit manic. You know where there’s an incident like a kid being sick that needs prompt action and thinking on your feet? Three by breaktime!

Urgggggg

Hate it when bombs like that are thrown into your day.

My friend's secondary in the Midlands has shut for the week. They can't get supply teachers to covet and so many isolating.

My other friends daughter is isolating for fourth time.

Nope education is not effected. Nothing to see here.

I also can't say too much about my day but it did involve picking up clumps of year 9 head hair from the floor.

[quote monkeytennis97]Oh God I'm going to get eaten alive!

Pulling children out of school... www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/4077664-pulling-children-out-of-school[/quote]
There’s a lot of posters on there who don’t know the half of it.

Hope you had PPE for that Piggy

@Medra I know

Blimey @noblegiraffe that sounds awful! @Piggywaspushed too

Tough days all round.
Noble and Piggy.

Hope your ok Noble and Piggy.

How can it be that threads that suggest there is a problem in schools all end up with people saying they haven’t had any issues. I started one a few days ago asking if anyone’s child had had to isolate , loads of people said they had. It’s like they are trying to disprove the op by grouping together saying it isn’t a problem. Bizarre.

@starrynight19 indeed.

It's a form of gaslighting IMO.

Oh my goodness piggy and Nobel that's horrid.

Gaslighting all round @SaltyAF

@motherrunner

Our Staffroom has been closed since Lockdown. Not that I’d have time to use it with all my duties!

Same here. We’ve all been individually assigned an empty classroom, a form room with kids in, offices and actual cupboards to eat our lunch in. Same place. Every day. Just walking past fellow teachers in the corridors as we rush to our lessons has us pining for the chance to actually talk to each other and share experiences. But the MH of staff is acceptable collateral damage to many. Apparently we are all 25 year old, slim white women

noble and piggy doc sorry had had those kinds of days. What a horror show. Well done for getting through the end of the day!

*So sorry you had...I meant!

It's reasonably sane in our place, staffing-wise, but we are drowning in a sea of mud! The only way we can get all ours out to play (in bubbled zones) is to use the field as well as the playgrounds (on a rota system). They have all had to bring in wellingtons, but bloody hell, what a palava! Takes hours out of each day getting them on and off. They are not allowed to wear them indoors, except for into the hard-floor area for lunch. That is COVERED with clumps of mud and as for the field itself. It's like the bloody Somme.

We're getting more positive cases now, have had one in my class. We don't send year groups home, just pupils who sit within 2m. Though they all bunch together in the corridors etc.