The Thirtieth Republic ( 30! who would have thought) - Is it too soon to book a staff Xmas party?

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

Did the lockdown start on the 2nd?

Dont know if its been posted but it rings true for me.

www.tes.com/news/exclusive-coronavirus-schools-roulette-wheel-covid-hotspot-teachers

5th, I think. Everyone had bonfire night parties early on the 4th

Riga great article and totally resonates and then you get to the reply from the dfe at the bottom

I think the SW might have more cases than at the start of this lockdown squashed. Rumour has it we have 400 members of staff off with covid or SI.

Yeah, that's what I thought, too, Starry night. Enraging.

Amazing article then its like an oh well from the DFE.

That DfE quote is their stock response at the moment. Don’t expect anything pertinent to the article, they only ever do stock responses.

Eg ‘Teaching remains a more attractive profession than ever’.

Can I divert the conversation to my probably unreasonable anger that although I share two classes 50:50, the workload falls more like 80:20 on me. I feel rage cry-y today.

In some respects I think schools in places with more cases before September went back better prepared. We have minimal movement, none at all in y7-9. We also had every allowed safety feature from September, masks in corridors (and allowed in classrooms), all windows open, meetings all online, staggered start/end, bubbles enforced on buses. We still have lots of cases, but it sounds less crazy than some other schools on here. We were tier 3 before lockdown and our community cases are definitely falling!

www.tes.com/news/scottish-parliament-backs-call-extra-2000-teachers

Bristol def needed to go up tiers when they dithered over lockdown for that week.

And probably had lots of the missing cases. The uni seemed a lot less effective at locking up the students.
Even with our msoa rate so high they havent shut the bubble just contacts. Grr. Our after school club mixes the whole ks2 as well.

[quote Piggywaspushed]www.tes.com/news/scottish-parliament-backs-call-extra-2000-teachers[/quote]
Very interesting-I like the sound of Mr Greer!

64 MSPs voted for the motion but nearly as many again (56?!) abstained!?

I feel rage cry-y today

Yes, that was me this morning. Hence my colleague got it in the neck. Someone overheard the conversation and did an 'erk' face at me as I walked past their classroom. Fuck em, lazy shitbags. Has spent the whole time being back at school moaning about how it's hard being at school when he much preferred being out on his bike during lockdown. Did fuck all, took no initiative, blah blah... and now has been asked to do his PPA at home (like everyone not SLT). I asked if he'd had a productive day and he said "amazing 2 hour lie in... " I lost my shit. Read the fucking room you bellend.

bubbles enforced on buses.

This is interesting. We cannot ensure bubbles only on the London public busses, trains and Tube that the pupils get at my school. I do wonder if this is exacerbating the problem!

Read the fucking room you bellend.
If I get this printed on merchandise, we can make some money for the staff fund and our trip to Egypt.

I've had the stock answer from that TES article on the three emails I've sent to my MP.

@MrsHamlet

Read the fucking room you bellend. If I get this printed on merchandise, we can make some money for the staff fund and our trip to Egypt.

We could get is printed on our staffroom coffee mugs for our long coffee breaks

If I get this printed on merchandise, we can make some money for the staff fund and our trip to Egypt

My dept have decided that 90% of behaviour management issues (including of colleagues) could be solved by us wearing t shirts that say “Stop being a twat”.

Maybe get them printed too?

I've gone from rage crying to laughing out loud.
Thank you :)

Our sixth form can't go home for frees, as we're too rural for that. They need to be in school all day so they can use school transport. We're still allowing the common room at break/lunch, but only one yeargroup at a time, with the other yeargroup scattered around designated classrooms in "bubbles" of 10. During frees they all have a "monitored study" session allocated, where staff on PPA host a silent study period in their own classroom. Hosting was voluntary, so I volunteered to do one a week as it keeps me as focused as it keeps them (I'm terrible for wasting my frees by chatting, but this sort of ties me to my desk so I'm way more productive). They tried to put the groups together so everybody is sitting with someone they already sit with in an actual lesson so we aren't adding extra contacts. It seems to be working ok so far, but not sure if that's just luck at the minute.

I remember someone suggesting an ear on a stick to wave around whenever we wanted the (secondary) students to listen.
I think a stick with "stop being a dick" would work better

"Oh you total dickhead."

That's mostly what's going through my mind in front of class at the minute.

The coats, sinks and packed lunches are stored in a room next door to my classroom - adjoining door, right by my desk. When I send children out to get their stuff, I have to be so careful about who I send them out with. It's literally 1m from my desk... there is no combination of kids that takes longer than 4 seconds to have someone get hurt/scream.

And I can't go into the room with them, because the kids in the classroom then become the ones hurting each other/screaming.

It's like some ongoing fox/grain/chicken problem - I'm hoping by the end of the academic year I'll have worked out the best combo.

If you get them printed on masks or binbags we could use them for the PPE contract we were going to bid for a few threads back.

We can put all the piles of cash in the special binbags