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

ChloeDecker

The live lessons I taught were very “content/comprehension questions” based. All content also on a sheet/in the text with comprehension questions on slides.

If tech fail happened, content/text could be read and questions answered. Honestly, teaching live into school doesn’t add much more value than sending in high quality correctly scaffolded cover work.

I’m English though - don’t know if this works for other subjects.

I’m Computer Science Herc-I’m used to school tech cutting out hence my nerves!

@SmileEachDay

ChloeDecker

The live lessons I taught were very “content/comprehension questions” based. All content also on a sheet/in the text with comprehension questions on slides.

If tech fail happened, content/text could be read and questions answered. Honestly, teaching live into school doesn’t add much more value than sending in high quality correctly scaffolded cover work.

I’m English though - don’t know if this works for other subjects.

Thank you! I’m teaching new topics such as Object Oriented Programming theory and prepping Year 11s for their upcoming mocks on trace tables so i want to make it as easy on my colleagues covering day as possible-I already feel guilty I’m taking up their PPAs. KS3 have mini whiteboards so your approach works well with them and I’ll do similar.

Yep. The lessons that worked best were the very, very straightforward ones.

Since doing it I’ve moved to using booklets for all my resources so that if I do have to do that again, students already have everything they need - my lessons have also become much more stripped back because they all have to go onto Teams.

In some ways, they’re better.

Oh gosh! I've done a couple from home and a back up plan helps. I had maths ones from Corbett maths etc that I could use if tech fails. I'd just email them over to the cover person.

Yes to basic, straightforward, very little differentiation (sorry SLT) worked best.

Wasn't it Austria that were going to keep primary schools open because young children were resilient and would get over it if a parent/relative died?

@monkeytennis97

Watching 'Teachers' at the moment- haven't seen it for God 15 or however many years since it ended... Happy days, happy memories and Andrew Lincoln too, what's not to like😊

A lad I was at school with was in that as a teacher.

I'm taking every opportunity (with friends at least!) to explain that not all of MN is filled with 'neurotic' first time mums anguishing about nappies!

@StanfordPines was he one of the main characters?

[quote monkeytennis97]@StanfordPines was he one of the main characters?[/quote]
One of the PE teachers, Stanford?

Name changed briefly as this is outing! I went to school with Andrew Lincoln for sixth form.

@xxxchangenamexxx

Name changed briefly as this is outing! I went to school with Andrew Lincoln for sixth form.

Oooh. Did he seem destined for great things?

I love the episode where the PE teacher dresses smartly for parents evening and no one wants to see him.

@noblegiraffe

I love the episode where the PE teacher dresses smartly for parents evening and no one wants to see him.

And his mate couldn’t remember anyone’s name! Classic

@xxxchangenamexxx

Name changed briefly as this is outing! I went to school with Andrew Lincoln for sixth form.

I did my pgce placement at your school then, though after you and Andrew were there!

I don’t remember what his character was. He came in in a later series.

Oh my! You were at 6th form with Andrew Lincoln?!

Oooo what was he like?

@noblegiraffe

I love the episode where the PE teacher dresses smartly for parents evening and no one wants to see him.

Yeah that's a classic! I watched the sheep in classroom one today (1st episode series 1).

Calm ladies, calm

I can't help it

@CarrieBlue small world!

@monkeytennis97 he was a pretty good friend of mine at the time, sadly we lost touch. I remember being really pleased for him when he got into RADA. We did a couple of subjects together and mostly arsed around!

Personally, his cynic in Afterlife is his best role. That may be controversial but hey 🤷‍♀️

Weird, I have a friend who went to school with Andrew Lincoln too!

He's very, very much like my brother, so completely unsexy.

Our school have invested in cameras/mics in all classrooms so that any pupil isolating can join the lessons on teams and see/hear the lesson. Done it with my 6th form last week by screen sharing and using my digital pen to model. It worked quite well.

Will be trying with Y10/11 and possibly 9 next week. I am being observed by a trainee one lesson and my NQT another so they will (hopefully!) be able to see how it works.

I think keeping things simple is definitely the way to go.

One of my wisdom teeth has been niggling yesterday and today think it's having a growth spurt which it does occasionally but it's the last thing I need right now! Maybe wine will help