The Forty First Republic - Gav encourages parents to report schools to OFSTED

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If you come with a stick to goad us then that is not allowed in the staffroom and you will receive a detention

@MrsHamlet
It still baffles me that people who come in to teaching, which is really about people, and show such contempt for people.

You can say that again. I've met / had several heads who I genuinely cannot imagine in the classroom.

@JanuaryChill

Because that's the end of the half term (06/02). Don't know if we should be worried that it hasn't got a clause in to possibly extend it, as I'd rather assumed we wouldn't go back that early?

Isn't that too early for half term?(never know dates of holidays here).

Good luck today - see you on the other side!

Half term is the 15th-19th.

Good luck all!

We've got a bubble popped already.

Maybe they're reviewing after a month?

Morning.

Riga that is shite but it's shite in writing! Keep hold of the evidence. That's a complete downplaying of mental health and refusal to accommodate a reasonable request for a solution that would have allowed you to continue working.

Can you get a phone consultation with gp?

I'm in today but not till late morning. Peculiar dreams. I got really really drunk and emotional and was suicidal and for some reason rang the business manager and wailed at her in the middle of the night threatening to throw myself off a bridge. She recorded the call and played it to everyone and then my mother was there saying why are you doing this to me badger?

Pretty bloody intense. I'm not consciously even stressed but my dream self is suicidal apparently.

Last night I dreamed that a big horse had taken up residence in my in laws’ living room, and they refused to try and evict him.

Lord only knows what that means for my current state of mind...

And another week begins. Good luck my lovelies.

Have you noticed that Gav couldn't even be arsed to sign that attendance document? Nick Gibb signed it. Does Gavin do anything??

Good luck everyone for the week ahead, thinking of everyone who has to go in

Fuck. Dh has just said they're thinking of closing nurseries. If we don't get a kw place we are fucked.

And that will have a knock on effect to a lot of school staff.

Surely it would still be KW/V like schools, not fully closed?

Here the schools have done two kw parents.

It's a private nursery so they'd possibly be more flexible. 🤞

The issue on a wider scale is that I know many TAs who are mums to preschoolers attending nursery or a mix of family and nursery. TAs are being heavily relied on at the moment. (We are fully open obviously.) The TAs aren't always the breadwinners.

Obviously then my mind thinks of all the cases rising

Gah this is all kinds of shite!

You're not wrong there.

Chris Whitty on BBC Breakfast - subtle but important change in message about teachers and the vaccine when asked whether teachers should be further up the priority list. He said ‘Teachers are not at any greater risk of dying ‘ than anyone else.
Does this mean they’ve accepted they can no longer peddle that we are not at greater risk of catching it?

Positives: Thought we were starting our wide timetable of live lessons today, but apparently we are not, so that wins me extra time today to plan etc for the rest of the week!

I haven't really looked at the news all weekend, so I am feeling pretty zen.

Negatives: Y11 parents evening (online) going ahead as planned on Thursday. I can already predict what the questions will be (CAGs, exams) and we won't have the answers that parents want.

Monday briefing has been moved after school for no good reason that I can see, and extended to last 30 minutes. So I'm going to be tied to my computer until 3.45. I know this isn't really that inconvenient in the grand scheme of things, but I'm not sure why it can't be done at 8.20 as normal, or even during what would be tutor time.

Week 2, let’s do this! 🤜 🤛

@cardibach

Chris Whitty on BBC Breakfast - subtle but important change in message about teachers and the vaccine when asked whether teachers should be further up the priority list. He said ‘Teachers are not at any greater risk of dying ‘ than anyone else. Does this mean they’ve accepted they can no longer peddle that we are not at greater risk of catching it?

True, but I’m a bit fed up of being in just about the only occupation that’s still being spun Mon-Fri on Whitty’s Wheel Of Fortune.

This is what it now says in the guidance. They dropped the bit about infections. It only seems to be lead politicians at pressers that don't know this.

I found another FOI request about this. The fatality rates are based on the period until May 2020!

6 live lessons today . Will set follow up assignments for some of the classes for next lesson - give me time to mark. Seemed like a good idea to box live ones off on a Monday - may rethink that for next week though!

I'd like to challenge witty over sen staff. Not me, I'm in my 40s. But the ons survey shows that sen schools have the oldest cohorts of teaching and support staff.

I work with a woman who is over 60. Many are over 50.

Being regularly snorted on and also working v closely with at least 20 other adults.

We have employed some staff to do personal care (nappies); they're mostly over 50.

www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/freedomofinformationfoi/deathsofteachersfromcovid19

I'm free this morning so I'm going to play with my fancy pen tablet and mark some work. Our briefing was moved to after school in September and it's actually better, much to our shock.
I'm picking up an extra class tomorrow for my off sick colleague so I really need to know where they are.

I'm not a Whitty Basher by any means , rather admire his work background but he is giving me the rage on R4. About to leave car and go and mix unnecessarily with 30 people with only a cloth mask as mitigation.