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

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The pilot schools having staff supplied to them makes sense. That is why the staffing isn't mentioned anywhere in the DfE propaganda.

And why they're not offering anyone from those pilots to do interviews or anyway directly deal with the media.

"Positive messages".....

• in any way

We’re all being given home test kits for christmas, they have to be dropped off at various places between 27th and 31st December.... to help safe return to school?!?

To prove you finished school Covid - free so if you have it at the start of term it’s obviously because you’ve been going to huge parties and licking Father Christmas.

Priti Patel on the Today programme seemed to have a great deal of faith in the common sense of the majority of the population not to be Covid-spreading dickheads over the ‘free’ period

Thsi si supposed to eb the day they release their 'new' data on teachers' infection isn't it?

Is this it??

*More than half of a small sample of schools surveyed in England had at least one Covid-19 infection last month, new figures suggest.

Of the 105 schools in the survey, 1.24% of pupils and 1.29% of staff tested positive for Covid-19 between November 3 and 19, according to the Office for National Statistics.

The survey also found that 27.6% of the schools had one current infection, 27.6% had between two and five current infections, and 44.8% had no current infections*

Just seen this.

I don't understand... are they back in or not??

I just shouted at my (lovely) year 11 and then cried. They feel bad. I feel bad.

We have a mufti day and it seems that doesn't include mask wearing.

Hearing from family member that all schools will be online learning for first week. No firm source as yet. Awaiting announcement from Gav apparently.

Branwen Jeffreys says year 13 and 11 in school , rest at home.

Health Sec to announce this morning.

Family member says is secondary only.

@Piggyinblankets

Branwen Jeffreys says year 13 and 11 in school , rest at home.

Health Sec to announce this morning.

That’s what I’ve just seen. Apparently we’re promised a written statement from Gav himself about this. Good ol Gav tosser

Y13? Where the fuck does that leave sixth form colleges? Oh yeah, we don’t exist...

The govt are beyond parody now.

How the hell are schools supposed to organise a week of blended learning AND mass testing with zero working days on between?

I could cry for our amazing SLT.

I hope this is the eye-opener for parents as to just how shit the DfE are.

I'd like to think so, but I seriously doubt it.

Well I've finished for Christmas now. I've got Year 8 assessments and year 13 mocks to mark. This latest announcement takes the piss. We are starting with different key stage 3 classes in January so teams not set up for that. I will not be doing extra work on top of my marking just because they announce this before the holiday starts.

So, nominally, Heads should/could work outside of term time.

Everybody hates teachers and we get too many (unpaid) holidays so should work through Christmas.

But what about admin staff? Finance? Catering? All paid absolutely shite wages but now expected to work through part of the holidays (yet again) to support both of these measures?

Tier 3 here Kids amazed because 'no one has it'.

And another thing: time needed to work our who the KW children as they'll be different from last academic year, because of a whole new cohort of year 7s and some parents changing jobs. When is this information supposed to be collected?

The comments on BBC are interesting. Every single comment thinks it is a shambles. None of the usual sniping about teachers.

I think all the other Whitehall departments sit laughing at the DfE

It is the department that people can’t transfer out of quick enough

@Piggyinblankets

The comments on BBC are interesting. Every single comment thinks it is a shambles. None of the usual sniping about teachers.

Yeah, I quite liked "who put 50p in the idiot?"

Do we have any other confirmation of this ?ive seen something on BBC about a staggered start. WTF is a staggered start? How is anyone meant to know when their chn are going back to school with that info?
Fucking shambles

Staggered means one year group (or two ) at a time. Presumably because DfE thinks that frees up teaching time?? Even though it doesn't...