The Thirty-Fourth Republic - Time to recharge our batteries and make the best of our festive break

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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

I’ll join in with Tom.

Fuck off Gav.

Indeed do fuck off Gav. There can't be any remaining respect for him from anyone in the know surely?

If I started a thread called Fuck off Gav, would it be taken down?

I feel it might be therapeutic.

@noelgiraffe

If I started a thread called Fuck off Gav, would it be taken down?

I feel it might be therapeutic.

If it’s a direct quote, using the correct punctuation, I don’t see anything wrong!

Can you link to where TS said it-I can’t find it?!

I’d happily take bets to see how long the thread lasted! Would be entertaining too

twitter.com/teacherhead/status/1341024978876116992?s=21

Honeybadger...depending on your state of refinement get thee to iceland/tesco/m&s as they have pain au chocolate in the freezers. Easy to pop in the oven on christmas morning.

Wales has decreed all pupils need to be back in education by the 18th. Our county has already declared blended learning in the first week back and will make a decision based on infection rates about the 2nd week on the 6th Jan.
A huge leap in numbers on a Sunday tells me it will likely be the 2nd week too.

Sadly our director of education put it in writing that we all need to do it from school despite the gov trying people to work from home if they can. Although the key worker list is so long it could well be most of my class in and managing online too.

@Hercwasonasnowball

Brie impressive re year 7. I'm always amazed by anyone planning beyond the next couple of days. I think it must be a subject thing perhaps.

NEU statement is good. Not sure I'm on board with education staff being vaccinated before ECV/elderly people.

All I've done is downloaded the relevant video lessons from Mr Corbett and Dr Frost, then the worksheets or resources from the internet, Herc . Probably sounds more impressive than it is! Most of the lessons have a SMART board or powerpoint somewhere in my files. We've changed the SoW this year, so things are in a bit of a different order.

In the summer I made Mathswatch / Dr Frost exercises for each topic too, but only ended up using a few. I do find though that if I put the live progress chart up for Dr Frost on the board, it's easy to see when students aren't working, and they can ask me about questions and I can just click for them to be shown on the board. If we go remote, I'll be doing more of that, I think.

Well this is NOT reassuring :

twitter.com/deeksj/status/1340975390412685312

to all who have suffered losses. It never leaves you, does it?

I have a bad headache and a slight snotty sniffle. Given that I’m self-isolating following a positive in my class, do you think I should get a test? My temp is normal and I can still smell and taste normally (although I don’t fancy coffee at all, when I normally can’t get enough of it). I don’t have a cough.

My anxiety is through the roof, which isn’t helping!

Harriet I would get a test (and I did, although temp was raised very, very briefly).

Ah harriet I would actually. The teachers I know who've recently had it mentioned a headache as the first symptom, in fact that's v common. (But if listed everyone would have Covid every 5 mins.)

[quote Piggyinblankets]Well this is NOT reassuring :

twitter.com/deeksj/status/1340975390412685312[/quote]
3% sensitivity

Is the Innova test the ones they are proposing to use in schools?

schoolsweek.co.uk/dfe-issues-wrong-guidance-in-leaflet-to-help-explain-mass-testing-schools-told/?fbclid=IwAR0hM6qmWH-oNbXsiMMBmeuSqPItHaLnosoL2TAKaKZ7T9MHSy7LaDzlnOY

Vote for Gav to fuck off here:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4112530-F-k-off-Gav-Nobody-trusts-you

Ooh didn't know you could get frozen pain au chocolate from tesco DrM - thanks for the tip. I've managed to vacuum upstairs but can't make it further. Now my test has come back negative I know I'm not ill just seriously knackered. Have the energy of a slug currently.

Cruddas said the CST had written to members to clarify the mistake as they “didn’t want the wrong information to get out” and leave schools and trusts thinking they would “have to physically administer the tests to every young person”.

FFS! They're just a bloody joke.

Oh Noel , you are such a glutton!
Teacher Tapp results in. 73% think gov doing a very bad job and most of the rest fairly bad!

Oh my phone doesn't recognise my festive namechange!

That explains why the school in Notts took down all their stuff. Never helps t be class swot.

Honey, you can also buy frozen Doug's from Tesco's. The good ones with cream inside. I find they last longer if I hide them behind the frozen broad beans. The advantage of doing the shopping alone and having unhelpful offspring who always disappear when the shopping arrives.

I still want clarity on nose AND throat tbh.

There is no way secondary kids will do this properly.

Doughnuts not Doug's

piggy the Friday Webinar said it was nose and throat.

Good luck with that. Throat will be impossible for a lot of kids given it can't touch any other bit of the mouth.

I guessed you meant donuts (I'm going with the easy spelling)! Yes it's hard to hide anything from a 13yo sadly. All of the easy grab it and go stuff is grabbed and gone pretty rapidly and then the 'there's nothing to eat' moaning starts.

I don't think they'd do throat or nose properly piggy. It took such psyching up and explaining to get ds to do it properly and that wasn't in front of a queue of friends and was with his mum breathing down his neck to do it properly.