The Thirty-First Republic - oh the joy of on-line parents evenings

[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

Thanks for posting that link, Piggy.

Good news for us: dh is CEV and mid-fifties. He's bumped up from group 6 to group 4 priority... And, if I'm reading it correctly, looks like ds and I can have it in group 6, to protect dh, as it may not fully work for him.

Bad news for teaching staff not being included at all, especially special school staff .

You know that point of trying to sort a room out where you've moved furniture about and unearthed mess and dirt and everything looks worse than when you started? That's where I'm at with my bedroom currently. Trying to summon the energy to keep going.

Have been invited to my bubble friends for dinner so I need to shower and make myself presentable but also need to get my bedroom sorted to the point of at least having a bed to climb into when I get home.

I feel like I've been trying and failing to keep my bedroom tidy my whole life. Maybe if I could just master that at 45 years of age everything else would fall into place?

I have succeeded in not doing school work today though.

That is good news dangling. It is very odd to see DH so explicitly on there when, only last week, he was told the NHS had removed him / never had him on a priority flu vaccine!

This is all I have.

@TheHoneyBadger

You know that point of trying to sort a room out where you've moved furniture about and unearthed mess and dirt and everything looks worse than when you started? That's where I'm at with my bedroom currently. Trying to summon the energy to keep going.

Have been invited to my bubble friends for dinner so I need to shower and make myself presentable but also need to get my bedroom sorted to the point of at least having a bed to climb into when I get home.

I feel like I've been trying and failing to keep my bedroom tidy my whole life. Maybe if I could just master that at 45 years of age everything else would fall into place?

I have succeeded in not doing school work today though.

I'm doing the same today but to my lounge. The less said about the bedroom the better, i'm failing in the same way as you HoneyBadger.

I feel your pain bett.

I'm afraid I'm ready to pour a bath and a glass of wine. I've made my bed accessible and just have some piles of, 'where does this shit go and should I just bin it' stuff to sort tomorrow.

Looking forward to being cooked dinner for once

I have massively fucked up in my RL and feel like such a twat.
I know it's because I'm on edge and stressed and so reacted badly to provocation, but that's no excuse.
I'm a complete prat

What’s up Why?

I can't say on here but I said something in anger that I shouldn't. Not family related either. I did apologise a few minutes later but it may have consequences. I am such an idiot.

Be kind to yourself what. The current situation really is an excuse. No human was made to cope with this level off isolation, stress, anxiety and work.

I hope people around you are understanding.

Urgh.

I hope whoever you said it to can see that it’s a symptom of the stress you’re under.

reacted badly to provocation

I would hope that they also apologise, or realise they shouldn’t have behaved that way and take it no further.

We're all under so much pressure of one kind or another why.

From PUAUS (Prent United Against Unsafe Schools, formerly BRTUS):

A Wallasey school staff are going on strike because of the lack of response from their Head and unsafe practises:

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/pupils-set-six-days-school-19357721.amp

Set against the backdrop of the moves in Scotland, interesting.

On TES this afternoon - so rather than have qualified teachers with their own classes on a rota, DFuckingE would sooner trainees teach classes in understaffed schools. Might just wipe my arse on my PGCE certificate (not sorry).

Is that the bit where it says that TAs can take classes more often too?

Only about 2 TAs in my school we can leave with a class. One of them is currently isolating with the class bubble.

So basically the problem of so many kids having to isolate will be solved by sending fewer kids home and the problem of so many teachers having to isolate will be solved by sticking anyone who will do it in front of the class, work presumably to be provided.

Am I reading that correct as saying we can't do rotas even if we don't have enough staff?

Yeah, not sure what will happen with the schools that are currently closed or part closed due to staffing.

It’s all smoke and mirrors, design to perpetuate the fantasy that schools are open.

My school has gone from “ok” to an absolute shitshow in 5 days.

Multiple groups of close contacts (each group 40+) all out starting on different days, so all returning at different times. Plus shit loads of individuals.

How the fuck are we supposed to deliver a curriculum under those circumstances, given that we don’t have time to chase kids not accessing work remotely because we are all still teaching a full timetable- but with smaller classes.

8 teachers out last week, I have no doubt this will increase.

Jesus, just when you thought things couldn't get worse.

I said at the beginning of term that I thought they were playing chicken with the unions.
This just feels like they have upped the ante. Provoking a response so it can be spun as the big bad unions' fault if schools close

My school has gone from “ok” to an absolute shitshow in 5 days.

It really is shocking how quickly things can turn, isn’t it?

Yet at the drop of a hat we’re supposed to solve whatever crises this throws up.

Ffs! How long before we get told to let yr 12 & 13 teach yr 7 in their study time. Sold as work experience and character building

Ha ha, I actually did that!
I taught maths to yr7s and 8s when they were down a teacher as when I was in the lower years I used to finish all the work too quickly so they'd send me to help the others, and it sort of continued..

Yet at the drop of a hat we’re supposed to solve whatever crises this throws up

Without anyone explaining how, exactly, we effectively deliver a curriculum is designed to build and interleave content and knowledge with a constantly shifting cohort.

I’m down to just reading and comprehension questions at the moment.