The Thirty-seventh Republic - Mass testing rolls on - school staff remain expendable

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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

Oooh, which exercise tape Ange?

Mumsnet are getting a bit better at deleting some of them.
We definitely have more support at the moment even heard a random person in the street saying schools aren't safe.

Morning all! Slainte Mhath.

Those papers are very interesting indeed raining!

doing my exercise tape

This is 2021 Ange! Maybe time to upgrade to a laserdisc or even a DVD.

Respect noble (for the Joe Wicks this time!)

Thanks for those papers @rainingcats both very interesting.

Made me laugh, too, Noble. Maybe Ange was an early VHS vs Betamax adopter and is sticking to what she knows best

I think they are bots cansu as the same threads are appearing on Twitter and are also bots with similar usernames.
I’m not sure how many are currently at work in MNHQ but they haven’t responded to my reporting of those threads yet.

Yes, i did that research yesterday and reported back.

On Twitter they are 'male, Welsh and follow rugby'. They ahve tenuous links to education/ police/ NHS.

Exact same wording used by posters on MN who become female , obviously and again with links to the same workplaces.

Btw I went to bed at 11 last night but went back and read your midnight ramblings.

was it rafa who said who put 50p in U4T tonight?

It made me LOL considerably.

@noblegiraffe

Well I've just done Joe Wicks' New Year's Day workout and I'm ready to smash 2021.

Looking forward to more dangerous spreading of misinformation with my trusty acolytes and sticking it 🖕to the DfE.

Here's to Trump fucking off, vaccines kicking in and the light at the end of the tunnel :)

Ok where do I find this circle of hell?

I'm a joe wicks virgin ready to pop her obese cherry.

Thanks for all the links everyone. Have had a good read this morning.

@Piggywaspushed

Btw I went to bed at 11 last night but went back and read your midnight ramblings.

was it rafa who said who put 50p in U4T tonight?

It made me LOL considerably.

Same here. Had a good laugh at that.

Honey you want to go to his youtube channel www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1

He's got loads of different workouts on there including beginners stuff.

This is an interesting Twitter thread

twitter.com/lewizrs/status/1344668189884559362

I'm still laughing from when someone asked "who put 50p in Gav?" the last time he popped up about a month ago.

Telegraph reporting (paywall and it wouldn't let me even copy a paragraph!) senior govt sources saying schools unlikely to open fully on 18th. Mainly talks about the CF schools but implies nationally. Because obviously the figures aren't exactly going to looking better by then.

Halfon moaning about semi permanent closures and how awful it is for working parents - which is true. Is it possible they'd close most workplaces again as in March?? Although that was more through fear than a mandate wasn't it?

Morning all.
I’m not brave enough for Joe Wicks despite clearly needing to take some action over my obesity. I will settle for a family walk after lunch. It’s a start.

Tentatively starting on low carb today without really knowing what I’m doing. I might dip into the MN weight loss section but MN in general scares the hell out of me!

Hope you all have a peaceful day, however you choose to spend it. I’m going to try and stay off Twitter today as it just winds me up and sends my anxiety through the roof.

Spot the NC..... 🥶

Should we start a group in Staffroom for healthy eating/exercise/losing weight?

@JanuaryChill

Spot the NC..... 🥶

Are you going to choose a new one each month?

I was wondering this monkey. I so need some accountability. At least this holiday I've started walking again and the scales yesterday morning confirmed that this was a good thing!

Not sure Figgy. August lasted a long time last year!

The "Chill" is obviously metaphorical as well....

Although I'm slightly annoyed at previously being an ignored northerner when our rates were high and I feel they were far too slow to act in London. This new strain does seem different.

We entered tier 3 in October with high rates, national lockdown and then came out into tier 3 where we have remained. In early November we were in the top 10 for highest rates in the country, we are now nearish the bottom - about 290/315. Some of this is because everyone else has gone up, but ours have come down too. I don't think the measures we had will work on the new strain...

@Monkeytennis97

Should we start a group in Staffroom for healthy eating/exercise/losing weight?

Would love to, think it would be allowed to stay here? You lot will understand the need to eat my bodyweight in cheese after bottom set y9 period 5 better than people in the 'real world '.

A Staffroom weight loss/healthy lifestyle ideas for teachers thread would be brilliant - much less scary than wider MN.

@Monkeytennis97

Should we start a group in Staffroom for healthy eating/exercise/losing weight?

I would definitely like this.