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

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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

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-55635638

Welsh calls for consistency in digital learning....

Look at the first pic, it made me think "Crikey, am I now so old that commissioners look like schoolgirls to me?"

Morning. Ds refusing to go to school because his hair looks trampy if he doesn't wash it and we don't have hot water which means I'll need to work from home and get him working simultaneously.

My bubble friend dropped off a key last night so I can go to hers to have a shower and finally wash my hair and I was planning on working there whilst my hair dried in the warm but doubt ds will do any work if I'm not here to push him.

From BMJ, but doesn't mention schools:

www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n81

But this BMJ 'blog', by Deeks plus a regional director of public health plus a professor of statistical something or other, does:

blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/01/12/covid-19-government-must-urgently-rethink-lateral-flow-test-roll-out/

Oh Honey, feel your pain!! You can't take DS there ASAP, get his hair done and drop him to school?

Looking at the time I'm guessing it's too late, and if he's anything like mine arriving in school late would be even more fought against than arriving with Bad Hair

I don't drive either January so everything takes longer. He's next due in on Friday so I will try and get a plan together for that morning.

Really quite annoyed by landlady thinking it's fine. Would be ok if we had an electric shower but no I don't think you can properly wash by boiling kettles. I have long hair that takes a lot of rinsing.

She reckons she's spoken to the landlords association and she is meeting her obligations by offering heaters and checking I have a means of heating water. I mistakenly calculated the amount I've paid in rent in 2 years and it's over 21k. I need a way of getting a mortgage

If the Independent article was written by a student , I'd like to know what adult editor fact checked it. I wonder if it's Gove's DD2. She is year 11!

Gove's second child is a boy. He has a daughter in Year 13 and a son in Yr 11.

Just looked at Shelter's advice, have used them in the past when renting, they're very good. But it just said landlords have to sort repairs in a reasonable timescales, and links to specific Covid guidance, which doesn't help.
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Honey what an absolute piss take. Don't blame your son. My hair looks greasy if not washed every day.

schoolsweek.co.uk/revealed-williamson-sets-out-his-plan-for-replacing-exams-this-year/

@RigaBalsam from that article he sounds.... reasonable??? (I'm non teacher of course!)

Yes January its still hard to know what this will look like in reality though. Schools will have their own interpretation.

Those comments are not Gavin at all. He has his feet up somewhere while people who actually know what assessment is do the proper work

www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-55640335

BBC article entitled Gavin Williamson: How has he survived?

Hmmm... interesting. Still this obsession with exams. The reason some students (especially disadvantaged ones) underperform is largely exam culture! It embeds disadvantage,

What do they mean by 'academic year'???

[quote JanuaryChill]From BMJ, but doesn't mention schools:

www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n81

But this BMJ 'blog', by Deeks plus a regional director of public health plus a professor of statistical something or other, does:

blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/01/12/covid-19-government-must-urgently-rethink-lateral-flow-test-roll-out/[/quote]
Dr Angela Raffle, one of the authors, an expert in health screening, said on the Today programme a few weeks ago that both the Prime Minister and Health Secretary had made false claims about the efficacy of mass testing. She was clearly very angry about the distortion and misrepresentation of the Public Health service to which she has devoted her professional life.

Yet another attendance figures DfE email, but I can't see what difference there is from yesterday's?

Could you try some dry shampoo honey

I get greasy hair but can’t be arsed washing it everyday. Quick spray of dry shampoo at night and hair looks ok the next day.

Obviously he will still need to wash it but you might get away with washing it less.

Good luck with the landlady. She’s not looking after you. Xx

Keep meaning to say, it's not just police trying to move up the priority list for vaccines like teachers! In the last few days have heard about armed forces (re vaccination roll out) and border controls folk (re food shortages currently in NIreland). Probably others too.

Discussion of John Deeks' trials of LFTs going on on the Data thread at the moment if anyone's interested. Don't have time to read all the links at the moment...

They just need to be vaccinating the fuck out of everyone, far, far quicker than they are. 101 year old granny only just had an appointment sent through for 2 weeks time.

Friends in San Francisco, with no reason to be up a list (late 30s, working from home the whole time since March), have had appointments sent through for March. Already. So they know when the end will be.

I'm sorry if not have time to catch up on the thread.

So I've had that pupil when queried why he hadn't been registered for some lessons (yes we are doing register for every lesson and teaching to timetable) said that I hadn't turned up...!
Saying that I'm tempted to bin all the extra hours I am currently doing to cover for colleague illness - I'm only supposed to be 0.4 and I'm currently over 0.9! I cannot do this plus help my 3 with bloody teams assignments - especially as one is R one KS1 and one KS2. My DH is the main wage earner and currently under redundancy consultation so his hours are getting priority...I am not coping

@EnemyOfEducationNo1 !

Apparently Gav said in Parliament today that he couldn't confirm that schools would return after half term. Now I know this isn't very surprising to us, but him even being prepared to say that surely means 'after Easter if we're very very lucky'?

I also noted the bit in his letter to Ofqual about any tests-which-replace-exams needing to be "as late as possible" in the school year.

Oh Enemy, had meant o send you some but they've somehow been deleted!

Have some 💐 instead...