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

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I’m going to bed. I’m knackered- constantly..

Have good evenings ☺️

Has nobody else been using the cover of their mask to say all the things that you would usually get the sack for? I'm just worried I will need a period of readjustment once the masks are done with

smile I'd love one of those t-shirts!!! I regularly have to bite my tongue to stop me saying that out loud to certain pupils.

God I am venting some pent-up anger against Us4Them at the moment so in a way they are performing a public service for the first time ever.

Oh FFS!!!!! After a whole school staff meeting tonight our parents evenings are to be held over 3 FUCKING EVENINGS till 8pm using school class phones. In one week.

FUCK OFF!!!!!!! I have an actual real life family! Closer and closer to just signing myself off.

@MrsHamlet

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

It’ll fall out the holes they cut in them for the nurses to put their heads and arms through.

We're doing online parents' evening. Normally, it's 4-6.30 on one evening but we're "allowed" to do up to 4 hours over 3. I'm now feeling bad because I have two groups so I can't fit them all in to one evening... but why the hell should I do more? They have another bloody teacher!

Oh phleb that's not on at all!! How can 3 evenings in one week possibly be ok? Surely you aren't the only teacher with a family who need to see you.

phleb

I did one hour (in an afternoon), for 4 days. Had the biggest uptake ever - 100% in fact. Was the best parents evening set-up ever. Just called on my mobile (or Teams if requested). Did two of those hours at home at the kitchen table. The only Teams one I did at home was the chair of the governors, don't mind her and her son seeing my kitchen bookshelves.

Phleb, that’s rubbish. Why so much extra time?
We have been doing online parents evenings all term, thye are working well and we have a fab thing where the computer hangs up when the parents allocated time is over, BUT they aren’t taking any more time than normal.
None of you will be fit to work with three nights like. That on the trot

And this is where it's really shit and any goodwill there was, disappears.

@ChloeDecker

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!

Yeah, tbh I don't know how well it works once the bus sets off. But the students have to wait in year group bubbles and then board in turn. It is a big change to before where it was just normal public transport, these are dedicated just for school children.

Loving the merchandise idea and proper lol at the holes in the bin bags for nurses arms and heads

I had a proper taking the piss attempt at getting me to do something that is so far from my job it's laughable. I think without saying no outright I've managed to make clear they can gtf. Very much hoping they've got the message and won't be shameless enough to push it.

Closing schools? But why?!

Aren’t they covid-secure?!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-54995655

New York schools to close on Thursday, apparently because of a 3% positivity rate, what the WHO states is a dangerous rate. Think we passed 3% quite a while ago

It's only uk schools that are safe

Late but hello all.

Lost my mind on a stupid corona thread about Christmas.

Hope you're all OK. I even felt sorry for SLT dickhead today. (you know the one with the shiney suit and the reinvent the wheel ideas after teaching for 2 weeks).

@TheHoneyBadger

It's only uk schools that are safe

Of course, silly me!

@MrsDanvers123

Has nobody else been using the cover of their mask to say all the things that you would usually get the sack for? I'm just worried I will need a period of readjustment once the masks are done with

Yes, all the time!

I missed the title. Think it might have to be a virtual Xmas party. Egypt is out because you need a negative test taken less than 48hrs before arrival and it has to be printed with official letterhead. Way beyond our 3rd world, sorry world beating, testing system.

@phlebasconsidered that's really rubbish!

Have procrastinated in a positive way and baked brownies for DH's department tonight.

Phleb just saw the parents evening thing.... How does that work with directed time?

I use the cover of my mask to each chocolate when I'm on break duty.

But how do you get the chocolate through the mask rule? I've been trying to eat with a mask on and I just can't do it!