The Thirty-Third Republic - End of term and DfE threats- cheers all!

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Christmas user name eventually came unto me!

Don't forget Ofsted friendly monitoring visits harriet!

@Piggyinblankets Love it!

@Piggyinblankets

To clarify: I love the festive name change. I do not love the prospect of Ofsted, from whom we fully expect a visit early in the new year

Yes it's essential that my half-sized classes get to bicker and cry over an end of term film, in order to protect the ego of invisible Gav and make Bojo's bollocks feel a size bigger.

Real men threaten legal action when councils try to save lives

Inspired Piggyinblankets

harriet , I did rather assume!

And I'll volunteer to swab Gav, though I'll be aiming for his arse . He's mostly talking out of it, easy orifice mistake to make.

Ha! It would take a special kind of masochist to love getting “The Call”

Perfect, Piggy!

Loving all the festive name changing. I'm not sure my namesake would be up for festive... she gets into trouble with her child when she has a nice feast planned, even though she's fastidious with left overs.

I did a "proper" lesson on Roman baths!*
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But that's it for the rest of the week.

Shhhh. I’m doing mostly tests for the rest of the week.

You could be MrsChristmasHam-let

I only taught year 12 today. We're reading paradise lost and discussing Satan. The head came in, looked baffled, offered patently stupid suggestions to improve my teaching, and left.
Lovely new boy from another school - who is that man and why does he do that? Why indeed.
Two sets of books marked. One to go.

I had an OK day, despite my PPA being cancelled.
But then I got a call to say that the men delivering and installing our new washing machine couldn't turn the stop-cock off, so would be leaving without disconnecting and removing and taking away the old one and installing and fault-checking the new one. In fact, they were intending to take away the new one and couldn't guarantee when/if they could return before Christmas!! Told them not to DARE take it away! They promptly left, empty-handed.
So, crisis averted. Super-hero me, ably assisted by my son (whilst husband hid upstairs and tried to pretend he was working) sorted it all out, emptied the full pipe that the men thought meant the stop cock was still on, disconnected the old one, lifted it outside, put the new one in, reconnected all the pipes and wires (through a hole in the cabinet that was too small, and ran a trial wash to ensure no leaks!!! Go us!

You deserve a large festive beverage for that!!!

Oh, forgot to say - 9ur head took in our books today for monitoring. Cos that's what we need during the last week of this term,

No proper lessons tor us tomorrow - a rare day off timetable for SLT sanctioned ‘covid-safe festive activities’ (whatever that’s supposed to mean). We’re all still confined to classrooms - no access to the hall, and only allowed outside in our usual time slots. It’s all very depressing, but I shall paint on a happy smile and pretend It’s Such Great Fun.

The annoying thing was that dh came down and assumed that the delivery men had done it all!
He's been fetching me drinks all evening, as a penance.

Still trying to think of a non porous floored space where we could set up a testing station with 2m between each point on the diagram plus room for kids to queue and imaging trying to get through testing 12 kids an hour. Every time you think they can't reveal themselves to be any more twat like they just go right ahead and take it up a notch.

I can't see the poor science techs being commandeered for the 'tester stations'. I'd be happy to be the reception person and enjoy the entertainment if someone else is teaching my classes. Not sure who'd be up for the nose stabbing though - I sense it's one of those situations where if someone 'wants' to do it's probably a good indicator that they're not the right person for the job.

Sorry -- I'll move on at some stage but what utter twattagery.

can not can't.

Any guesses who I am?

A ho ho ho

That SW article is concerning. For the flu jabs the admin at my school just slipped between the cracks. Permission slips went out on email to save printing, so loads of parents never saw them. They got emailed back to the office, but as no one was really in charge it was a struggle for me to find out who was actuallymeant to be jabbed (v stressful- who wants to send home a jabbed child to an antivaxer parent?).
When I finally got hold of the list (once the entire class was lined up in front of the nurse) it turned out that there were 5 chn for the jab - less than 20% of the class. Not at all in proportion needed to provide community protection. Too late to do anything about it then.
No ones fault - just an effect of chronic under resourcing.
We'd struggle with the permissions for testing - let alone administering the tests themselves!

The gazebos have been resurrected on other threads. Must show a positive can do!

Oh that's too hard yule !