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

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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.

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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

mRs Hamlet and anyone else struggling.

Phleb, coming back to that insane parents Evening, WTAF. Time to sign off. (Ps did you find near peri that you had to take more thyroxine?)

Glad Dh is a it happier monkey, and well done your ds!

I personally know 6 teachers who are fighting this and at least 3 more I know of. My school's area's rolling rate is in the 600's. I actually think the building is very well ventilated though thankfully. Never really thought about it before.

Having lockdown flash backs with kids and me locked in the house and fucking mess everywhere! Dishes piling up along with my apathy. At least then it was sunny and we could go for a walk. But so far no symptoms I think. Ds picked up yesterday afternoon.

20 minutes for lunch here. Each year zone has been given its own mini food trolley/shack and picnic benches under shelters/tent sail things outside. The seagulls are loving all the dropped food and starting to become aggressive!

I had an anxiety dream last night.
Cover lesson with 50 kids in an unconventional classroom, they all had names I couldn't pronounce and kept laughing at me. Wouldn't stay sat down, and ended up trashing the room while I stood there ineffectually like a lemon.....

for you all.

@WhyNotMe40 so did DHHe is still shaken up by it... in the dream was back teaching at his toughest school from 15 years ago.. Hope you are ok x

Now 2 weeks into "lockdown" deaths and hospital admissions still on the up but new positives going down apparently. To me that means they left it too late as the massive spread through the young had already been allowed to leak out to the old and vulnerable and once we saw it rising in the young that was entirely predictable.

But I'm not an mp and have zero influence or control over any of this. It is however Friday so no matter how tough today gets we can console ourselves and our students with the fact the weekend is just on the other side of this hill.

Once more into the.... 🤪

Right, it’s Friday you fuckers. 1 day keftvthis week. You’ve got this.

Admissions & deaths always lag cases, Honey. Whenever we locked down that would have been the case. I think there were expecting to see reductions in admissions by the end of the 4 week period.

What is more worrying is probably that while the England R number is coming down, I think it’s probably going up in some regions and the overall reduction is from a drop in the areas that were really badly hit.

Thank fuck it's friday!!
I'm not working today (pt) but am hoping to get all my planning done so I actually have a weekend. Not easy with a little self isolator in the house (last day).
I'm increasingly seeing parental resistance to sending kids home, and not just on batshit threads on this site. On the class WhatsApp there was one complaining about how hard it was, and what was the school going to do to reduce the chance of this happening again ? (The one that really made me laugh was the complaint about how parent intensive the work was - it was brilliantly set up, but yes, news to parents, 6 year olds can not be left in a corner to learn in silence!!K).
Meanwhile my other DC school has about a third of pupils home at the moment.
Keep going fuckers!

Why ARE there no figure about how many schools have classes out each week?

Someone in Sunderland is collating a list of every year group and school and sending it to the local paper each week, with their return date.

Everywhere else in the NE, radio silence.

It's about 1/3-1/2 of my son's school affected this week, and about 2/3 my toddlers nursery.

My local online paper is trying to run a list of schools with classes/years/groups out.
I say trying as I know it's incomplete.
They also don't mention how many groups from each school.
I think it's about 50 schools on their list so far. And they take them off the list after 2 weeks.

And so it starts....no pay rise next year. NHS exempt...probably.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55011477

Yes I know it lags which means those dying and being admitted to hospital were catching it in October when we should have been closing down for a circuit breaker in my opinion.

Positive case in ds form. It's made it down to year 9 now. No one I teach and ds doesn't sit next to her. He is in form and several lessons with her but presumably that won't trigger anything.

I saw about another pay freeze. If they bring in 30k starting salary and freeze the rest of the profession that really is adding insult upon multiple insults to multiple injuries.

That pay freeze article is awful (plus another bloody pic of socially distanced children )
In time for your resignation opp before Christmas is it? What a kick in the teeth.

I tried to read another thread with contrary beliefs to the ones here, for some perspective. Just made me think of Trump and all his denial

coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/interactive-map
On the map the darkest areas are often around motorways.

Everything is ideological

www.tes.com/news/coronavirus-schools-must-stay-open-lockdown-health-chiefs-told?fbclid=IwAR0X_-YmAswV_lGB73NjnlnmBFYgzD5Sz8o6G285wxBW7ItzwuHyzwoJ6vA

This bit really annoys me

The joint letter from Mr Williamson and Mr Hancock says: "Given that the chief medical officers of all four nations have been clear that the very best place for children and young people is to be in school, college and early years settings

the CMOs are not educationalists. This is based on absolutely NO academic research. It is what they ahve been told to agree with. I am sure they do , but that is not the point!

I was just going to post that article. So what exactly WAS the point of publishing that tiers thing, hmmm??? Apart from to pretend, of course.

To shut the unions up I suspect

That, and probably because since Boris has gathered he is getting public approval for keeping schools open. education looks like a worthy thing to claim toprioritise.

Yup

Infection rates increasing in secondary kids, today’s ONS data.

Another example of the weird age ranges being used to cover things up (well, I can’t see any other reason for years 12-13 being put in with under 24s - it seems clear to me that as university transmission drops, sixth form rises but it looks like a levelling-off - the graphs by year group tell us as much).

The BBC reports that as a levelling off across the country.