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

Very few signatures on this petition to have teachers added to the vaccination list

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/554316

Signed. Barely any in our whole area!

Signed too and my friends have but quite disappointed with the low numbers.

I ahve discovered this morning that we ahve had 5 staff members with covid. I knew about 2.

No idea why we aren't being told.

Girding my loins to complain to head via email about staff behaviour. It is ridiculous. Difficult thing is that this does rather include SLT!

I don' t see why we would get vaccinated when we aren't priority for flu jab, tbh.

We get flu jab every year in my county. Paid for by LEA even though every single secondary is an academy.

Good luck possum.

In a way I feel there's so few jabs, there's definitely more other "priority people" who need it over all teaching staff.

But I do feel they should be given a priority in the future.

Well if I get flu I might pass it to colleagues and pupils or I might not. I will be off work.
If I get Covid I'll be off work and so will some of my colleagues and a good many children as well. I don't think it's the same really.

The person who did my test today was very thorough. Last time I did it myself and no way did I get so far up!

Hope you're negative and OK @Possums4evr

I think that happens in some MATsdangling but it certainly isn't off the back of government - or even PHE- policy.

Feeling a bit disgruntled about the whole thing, given DH is still waiting for his actual flu jab!

Is there no hope of a private one Piggy? I went to my local pharmacist every week for three weeks until one day they had it and did it right away. They wouldn't book them in advance though, so not handy if he works 9-5.

My best wishes to all of you.

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26 members of staff off.... going well this.

Bloody hell hedgehogger are they all positive or just close contacts?

@TheHoneyBadger I think I'm the same as you. I can do part time fairly well, because I work all day on my days off. Obviously that isn't how it should work, but I know I would otherwise end up working all night every night and all weekend to do it.

Had diabetic review - absolutely awful blood results. Asked about covid and risk at school. I was told that I am at no more risk of catching it, but that if I do catch it my outcomes are statistically worse so therefore I don't need to do anything about work... I really need to sort myself out with both my eating and taking my medications....

2 more classes out. We are still smiling under our masks though. Just about. I just told someone to leave the staffroom window open. Don't come in on non uniform day in a thin blouse and complain it's cold ffs.

He's a teacher possums!

No, nothing available within 50 miles...

Got a response from my MP telling me all the marvellous things schools are doing to keep kids safe.

He does ask if I have any specific concerns I would like raising with the DfE. I think I just might...

Infection rate in secondary schools now looks higher than in uni students.

All anyone on another thread would point out is that is it dipping...

Really annoys me that sixth form are lumped in with uni students.

Made BBC news:

There is a higher percentage of secondary school pupils testing positive for Covid-19 than any other age group, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics.

Based on a national survey, the ONS said an estimated 1.65% of Year 7 to Year 11 students tested positive on 6 November, compared to 1.05% for primary pupils.

It comes as the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) examined more than a thousand outbreaks of coronavirus that have occurred since schools reopened in September.

Reopening schools means children aged between 12 and 16 played a "significantly higher role" in spreading infections in households, the scientific advisors said.

But they said there was no clear evidence for or against the claim that infection rates among children were driven by them catching the virus in school.

Dear god schools have made the news. Is a rogue journalist about to be sacked?

On the rolling news @noblegiraffe so doubt it’s still on the main page now ... wonder why it didn’t make an article on its own 🤔