The Fortieth Republic - Schools are safe but they are vectors so go online

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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

It's a bit like a pregnancy test won't tell you you have typhoid.

You sound like you speak from experience piggy!! 😂

Am I right, is it schools in more deprived areas which are seeing ridiculous %s of pupils in? Obvs they'll have more V children, but do they also have more KWs??

They might do to be honest : care workers , supermarkets etc.

Presumably schools who've already sent those letters out and had concern forms will have to send a new letter, and explain why too!

Only if the DfE tell them to! Will school leaders be aware? Do they all read Schools Week?

Surely legally they'd have to, otherwise they're leaving themselves open to a legal challenge on a medical procedure??

@JanuaryChill

You sound like you speak from experience piggy!! 😂

Am I right, is it schools in more deprived areas which are seeing ridiculous %s of pupils in? Obvs they'll have more V children, but do they also have more KWs??

Conversely those secondaries probably have least in. We were expecting just under 40 and had at most about 12/13 on any given day this week...

Appu

Someone is hopefully doing (band a saucepan) for carers.

They can F off.

(Sorry, I'm cross about teacher bashing as staying home would ease the pressure obviously for the nhs.)

@cornercupboard

Good to see that stupid letter withdrawn. I sat with DH for a while trying to work out the difference between the 2 things they were comparing - sensitivity and specificity - with the conviction that they were comparing apples with pears.

We did have that letter from our DCs secondary school and I was immediately v suspicious.

Bloody Boris tonight, I wanted to put him on the naughty step. SUCH a clown and not in any funny way (P.S. I hate clowns)

Specificity - it tests for covid, so if you have a cold instead you won't test positive. A lot if conspiracy theorist say it doesn't have a good specificity, but it does. If you test positive you most certainly have covid.

Sensitivity - it detects all covid cases. This is where it isn't so good. If you test negative you may still have covid because it's not that sensitive.

Basically it doesn't give false-positives (good), but does give false-negatives (bad).

I've had a lovely day actually with two smaller classes as a lot off.

Sorting home learning for the others for next week as I'll have to send some supporting packs and materials to them.

*almost certainly

@NeurotreeWenceslas

Appu

Someone is hopefully doing (band a saucepan) for carers.

They can F off.

As long as they don’t start a 8pm ‘boo for teachers’!!

Secondary we had 50 today. They are phoning kids and telling them to come in. The yeat 11s were naughty today too. Just in for the social.

Hello all - just checking in from the insane world of primary. Over 50% children in now claiming to be KW, and rising. Some are obviously V, and I would never begrudge having the genuine KW children, but honestly... So many of them are WFH and sending the children in to us as it's easier.

We're allowed an a total system from next week. Head had insisted all staff in. KS2 bubble had 1 child yesterday, 0 today. 3 members of staff who could all have been at home. Expecting 1 tomorrow, 5 from next week. >50 on roll, only had 2 in whole school throughout lockdown 1. Other school (>100 on roll) has Y1-6 in a whole school bubble (11 children,) counting our blessings after what I'm reading. Large gins to you all, I feel.

Our parents said they do NOT want live lessons - lack of devices, stress of pinning kids down on time etc. Happier with pre-recorded and also (so far) with White Rose and Oak. For us, it works well like that and then we are on hand to Google Meet any individuals or small groups for additional support if they need it. I have them filling in an end of day exit quiz saying how they got on in each lesson by selecting pic of thumbs up/down/sideways, with space to comment if they want.

rota system!

Thanks Flagsfiend - yes, we knew it was tosh, certainly in the way it presented the good news without dealing with the bad news

Well my small cry about 7 year old Lithuanian boy standing against a wall performing a poem as part of this week's learning, turned into a proper floodgate situation of blubbing. I'm not a big crier, so partner didn't know quite what to do. Now I'm watching 'saving lives at sea' and cryng again. Yay! He's suggested I get out of teaching for the rest of the year.

Oh I cry all the time, think it's a good release mechanism!

So do we think I'm deprived areas the primaries are fuller and the secondaries emptier?

My v naice secondary is pretty empty though....

*in deprived...

I’m in primary in a relatively naice area. Not tres posh but low PP/FSM. We have about 10% in so far-it’s seems that the older the children, the more parents seem to want to send them in! Very few littlies.

Leafy middle class primary. Over half are in and rising. March lockdown was the critical workers in the truest sense of the word, so about 1/5th of the total in both KS.
This time, them’s with t’loudest voice getting biggest share, as my Granny would have said.

First day in school with KW tomorrow.
No idea how many we have in (rural secondary) yet.
Kept my kids home despite fact we could have keyworker places. They're safer here mad luckily, both will get on with their work fine.

Primary here. Numbers are definitely creeping up, including a child who has one parent who is a KW and one parent who is a STAH (child is not V)