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.

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

Sounds like that hoy needed to think before they forwarded that email!

@MrsHamlet

Sounds like that hoy needed to think before they forwarded that email!

Agree with that. Wouldn't fancy being at HoY at the moment (well, any time really) though..

Thank you all

HoY is pretty useless tbh and is currently 'bubble head', so like a mini-head in my bubble! I've had quite a few problems this year, but in my own department very rarely get any. HoY has told me so far this year that 2 students have a problem with me and my subject, so this is par for the course. I genuinely think some of the parents are enabled by slt/HoYs. The two previous kids are in trouble all over the place but we don't have great behaviour systems in place sadly.

Can't wait to be able to go back to normal...

This enrages me. Support the bloody staff, senior people. It's not bloody rocket science.

Lurchers maybe treat the email as "info only" - reply to HOY "thanks for the feedback" and leave it as that - surely if it's that important the HOY would reply to the parent it went to them directly after all 🤷🏻‍♀️

To add to my rage:

Hod:"Mrsh I've had a look at your mock exam marks and they're quite high"
Me:"Yes. They did well. I'm pleased with them"
Hod:"I think they're too high"
Me: "really?"
Hod: "yes"
Me: "have you looked at the work?" ( knowing that's a no because I have the papers for safe keeping"
Hod: "no but I've looked at the marks and they're very high."
Me: "but not at the papers."
Hod: "no"
Me: "so without looking at the work, you think that my marks for the paper I examine every year twice a year and know like the back of my hand are too high. Would you like to look at the papers?"
Hod: "no. I just think these children probably need theirs moved down because they're too high"

I didn't stab him. I don't know why.

They’re too high

Translation = your results make mine look bad.

@HerdyGerdy

They’re too high

Translation = your results make mine look bad.

Yep. We have equivalent groups. I've not been so childish as to check his marks but I will when I've finished marking this pile of books :)

read between the lines of that DfE data people. They are going to stop children self isolating because of contacts. What matters most to them is their data.

@Piggywaspushed that was my first fearful thought too

Has this been on BBC school stories before? Chance to get our voice heard?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-55057125

on main bbc website

https://www.tes.com/news/exclusive-covid-school-rotas-banned-dfe-ends-tiers?fbclid=IwAR2eyj6ISTAgr9I8UCpWYFUKwN-3YYHxtxpjd8edcih3LjtH6Z2MfmkcIkI

We're fucked

Mirror reports death of a 10 year old . Underlying health conditions so that's OK [irony]

Also, a 31 year old with no underlying health conditions.

So 2% of kids have covid, but the ones isolating -up to 20% are probably not the ones with covid.
They are trying to keep the numbers out low. But because well they are not too bright it is making it higher. Doh!

Cant believe they are removing the school tiers without ever using them!!

Our area just finally going down will be back up again. And indoor stadiums ffs! What they should do is shut schools from.11th then open zoos/etc etc .
But surely private schools are shutting early which is a good thing but only 7% of the kids.

7% of kids but a greater % of MP’s kids I’d imagine.

Our kids are starting to go down like ninepins. We’d only had one case until 2 weeks ago, and in the last 2 days we’ve had new cases in 5 year groups.

I am hearing a lot more coughing again about the place.

This man is dangerous:

www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/nov/24/gavin-williamson-unlawfully-removed-child-safeguards-in-pandemic-court-rules

Lad on front row sat about 1m from me doing the register at the pc.

"Cough cough cough"
Me: is that a new cough or asthma related?
Lad: started last night miss
Me: did you tell a parent?
Lad: yes miss. Mum said it's just a cough so to go to school.
Me: best go to HOY
Lad: trots off.

10 minutes later he comes back in
"Hoy said it wasn't that bad and I don't have a temperature so I need to stay in class"

I reckon a minimum of half the buses I’m on have somebody coughing at the moment.

You know that ks1 maths lesson you do when you get kids to estimate and then measure whether things are less than/more than or about the same length as a metre stick? Can you do that with adults? I may need to borrow a metre stick off one of the primary people. At least if it fails I can just poke people with it.

🤦‍♀️ why

Good grief whynotme can you imagine if he turns out to be positive? I sent a child out recently who was coughing, she told me she'd coughed in every lesson that day and none of the teachers had said anything. (I had her last period).

Ive had it with kids an illness this week.
Every single lesson this week (except zoom lessons) I've had a kid go pale and say they feel sick.
I send them to HOY. They get sent back with " see if you can last until lunch" or "last lesson so I have to wait until end of school".
Ffs

I've had that exact situation a couple of times, followed by said child off for a fortnight because "parent has Covid." Oh, I wonder where the hell they got it from?