The Thirty-ninth Republic - Covid Carnage continues and spring term is just about to start

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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

Feb half term

Are we closed till February???

Hope Gav and OFQUAL get jiggy on about exams

(actually not Gav the Muppet - anyone else will do)

How do we interpret ' it is not possible for all exams to go ahead'?

Still going to do English and maths GCSE?

So is our eyfs closed (year r)

Looks like feb half term

online to Feb half term

@Piggywaspushed

How do we interpret ' it is not possible for all exams to go ahead'?

Still going to do English and maths GCSE?

I would imagine that's an option they're considering

Schools are safe. Just not with people in them.

Called the 'vaccines in the arms' one!!

When are we closed until>

Poor nurseries and EYFS

Shit me

No exams.

Does this mean WFH? I really want to go to school

English and maths only is crap though for so many.

Our nursery have said they'd do KW but they're private.

A lot of school nurseries are mixed in with reception I think?

Agree herc : was just a guess.

@HercwasanEnemyofEducation

Shit me

No exams.

Does this mean WFH? I really want to go to school

You can go into mine if you like. Cos I am happy teaching from bed home

Mumsnet wouldn't let me post earlier so many posts here!

Fuuuuck, exams I'm so sorry for those kids.

@Appuskidu

I went on a course with Finton O’Regan (?) years back about behaviour and thought that was quite interesting. I haven’t actually heard of many of the others!

Bill Rogers was the big name in behaviour management when I started training and I watched all his behaviour management (VHS tape) programmes, then was lucky enough to attend a course with him in person. Very sensible approach.

Well fuckadoodle-do. So now I have A level students with...no exams? And BTEC students who don’t even do exams!

Poor nursery staff and poor exam years.

What a shitshow this has all been. He didn't even look embarrassed.

If it's just English and Maths, some schools will run with 100% timetables of both subjects for the foreseeable

Honestly, the kids will survive. Kids are so much more resilient than we give them credit for.

My year 12s are largely fine having not done GCSEs. A few outliers who shouldn't be there but that isn't new.

I feel most sorry for uni students, especially first and third years.

Some sneaky semantics with the schools are safe/ vectors thing going on.

'Schools are safe' for many means you can't catch it. My neighbour thought pre school kids literally couldn't catch it.

Of course they're fucking vectors you idiot! That's what we mean by unsafe! Not too unsafe for the child but more unsafe for all the adults and extended families!

Jfc.

On the whole, I feel so much safer now though.

God this is going to be like knitting fog, isn't it?