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

[StaffAssociationRepresentative]

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

[WhyNotMe40]

The HOYs must hate me as I just keep sending them poorly kids!

[Frlrlrubert]

Argh, my day was eaten by a parent email.

Guys if your child has been on report multiple times, including negatives for fighting and doing zero work in lessons, maybe don't blame the teacher who has never given him a written negative for his behaviour because that was the nearest book and you spotted one incomplete task and a poor test score.

And no, we can't 'not move on until all pupils are secure' we have mixed groups and some pupils just won't get there. I didn't have targets for them when we did that test, so actually, I assumed your child was lower ability and didn't push too hard, it turns out he's just lazy and his free ride in my lessons is over! Watch out, cos he'll be getting those negatives now unless he bucks up.

However, actually the bell curve of the results for that class for that test is almost perfect for their targets apart from one outlier. Guess who.

Also I hate Fischer Family Trust targets. I wonder why, despite getting exactly the same CATS score, one child (male, white) whose parent has time to email in blaming teachers has a higher target than another child (female, non-white), who is currently out performing him.

Also, 'we used FFT20 because we wanted targets to be aspirational' - guys, we're an RI school with no money, do you really think we can make top 20%?

I feel like the 'real world' has really collided with 'best practice' for me today.

Ok, rant over.

[PumpkinPie2016]

Today has generally been ok - Y11 rather enjoyed genetic engineering. Y13 were slightly subdued having done their paper 1 mock Not sure they have done enough revision.

Completed the forms for my NQT which was nice -term one will be successfully signed off and I'm really proud of the progress we have made.

Pastoral issues are driving me mad though. Most parents are great but one or two cannot accept that their child isn't the only one in the class Also, not towards me personally but parents seem to be demanding more and more of the hybrid lessons. Ringing up/emailing to complain about slight technical glitches when the teacher is trying to do teams as well as teach and manage a class at the same time I have come to the conclusion that I am not cut out for pastoral Give me curriculum and data any day!

[Piggywaspushed]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55061543

Because your government fucking told us to, Wancock.

[Danglingmod]

I wonder if he means teachers, too?

I somehow highly doubt it.

[SaltyAF]

Oh as if employers would accept that.

[Appuskidu]

@Danglingmod

I wonder if he means teachers, too?

I somehow highly doubt it.

And I’m sure he doesn’t mean kids either, because, y’know-attendance!

[TheHoneyBadger]

@MrsHamlet

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

Absolutely I am still catching up but read, "Then I just received an email from a parent, via HoY, about how I don't understand her dc, am teaching my subject wrong, she preferred the teacher she had last year etc etc. Don't know how to reply..." and thought wtf did that head of year think they were doing forwarding that on right now? Arsehole.

[DollyMixtureLulus]

Oooh, I have some news. Our PT is going on mat leave and the HT asked if I'd consider acting up! I'm quite flattered but concerned about being able to do it ( ) and also when the mat leave comes to an end. I'm absolutely terrible at interviews and I'm happy in my school.

Is it worth it for a year? Will you all kick me out if I go to the SLT side?

[noblegiraffe]

What’s a PT and will you be paid?

[DollyMixtureLulus]

Principal teacher, between class teacher and depute. 6k more per year.

[Augustbreeze]

Think we've already got a few from that side on here! Sorry, but what's PT? Well done anyway!

[CallmeAngelina]

6K a year?
Go for it!

[CallmeAngelina]

Blimey. Nearly the end of the thread again.

[Augustbreeze]

The attendance figures are so awful for secondary. The govt will DO something..... worried it'll follow on from the little survey if MATs last week, ie stop contacts being sent home.

And then there's the news coming through re Christmas.

Will we end up with a national lockdown - including schools closed - by mid-January?

[Augustbreeze]

Are you north of the border @DollyMixtureLulus ?

[MsAwesomeDragon]

Go for it dolly!! I'm sure you'll be great, and they must think you'll be great too, if they've asked you to do it.

[DollyMixtureLulus]

I'm a bit emotional actually. I know it's because I have no life apart from school but it's nice to be asked!

[noblegiraffe]

Dolly definitely give it a go. Like a try before you buy, if you don’t like it you’re not stuck. If you do you’ll have good experience!

[SquashedFlyBiscuits]

Just so fed up today. No specific reason. Had enough. Staff meeting made me angry.

[TheHoneyBadger]

Oh Wannock! Can only imagine the bloody hell of absence management meetings we'd be subjected to if we started staying off school with a cold.

He doesn't seem to aware how many workers have no sick pay either the dickhead and that statutory sickpay doesn't kick in straight away for what it's worth given it's so low.

How embarrassing are these idiots?

[SquashedFlyBiscuits]

@dollymixturelulus congratulations!

[ChloeDecker]

@DollyMixtureLulus

Principal teacher, between class teacher and depute. 6k more per year.

Go for it and good luck!

[Possums4evr]

Dolly absolutely go for it. It's hard to get a promoted post in a new school without any experience, here's an opportunity being handed to you on a plate, more or less, grab it! Best thing is if you hate it you know it will come to a natural end. And you never know, your PT might want to come back part time and do a job share of the promoted role... (might not be worth it for 3 grand though!)