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

Thanks. Just trying to get kids off devices and outside now...

EIOE - Exams Instead of Exams, almost EIEIO....

Our Head has just sent this out, might be therapeutic for those tired of remote teaching already:

Ha, have you seen this guidance? It might have been the one you were talking about the other day, I'm a bit behind.

Limiting attendance does not suggest that schools and colleges have become significantly less safe for young people. Instead limiting attendance is about supporting the reduction of the overall number of social contacts in our communities. We have resisted restrictions on attendance at schools since the first lockdown but, in the face of the rapidly rising numbers of cases across the country and intense pressure on the NHS, we now need to use every lever at our disposal to reduce all our social contacts wherever possible.

No mention of safety for staff.

@RuleWithAWoodenFoot I think it's the 'for young people' that gives it away in there...

FFS my neighbour is going to report me for my childcare bubble apparently - as we all walked back to my house together as they were walking past it anyway.

@Monkeytennis97 - I got that! I mean, the document doesn't mention anything about safety for staff.

Growing resentment about vaccine is going to be the next issue.

Friend who is social care, working from home since March, vaccine next week.

Yes in all the debate about vaccine order no one seems to be aware of the non-physically -frontline workers who seem to be getting it now!!

I've had a really productive day today, which makes a change. Although my PowerPoint wouldn't share on Teams this morning, all the kids got was buffering, so I had to go back to sharing my visualiser and using pen and paper (I really wanted to use my new magic pen!!!). Funnily, Teams worked perfectly sharing geogebra and the visualiser, it was only the PowerPoint it didn't like 🤷.

I am really jealous of those of you who can do live lessons more often. I've had emails from several kids today saying their internet can't even handle watching my short (always less than 10 minutes, for this very reason) videos, so can they have written examples emailed to them instead. Just an extra layer of hassle to deal with on top of everything else.

[quote RuleWithAWoodenFoot]@Monkeytennis97 - I got that! I mean, the document doesn't mention anything about safety for staff.

Growing resentment about vaccine is going to be the next issue.

Friend who is social care, working from home since March, vaccine next week.[/quote]
Yes, I'm sure there will be plenty of people who are resentful of who's getting the vaccine first. I've got a friend who is a dispenser in a pharmacy who got her first dose last week. I mean, yes she has contact with the public, but no more than anyone working in retail

Christ the numbers today.
It’s the equivalent of three planes crashing.
Imagine if three planes fell out of the sky today and the government said that they could have done something earlier but they didn’t want to upset people.

Not caught up with the full thread as been a hectic few days!

@StanfordPines the numbers today are awful. Over 1500 deaths plus 47000 cases and 4000+ admissions looking back to early Dec it was nowhere near as bad.

My NQT has tested positive today he's feeling rough but not too bad thankfully.

It's just awful at the moment.

@EnemyOfEducationNo1

FFS my neighbour is going to report me for my childcare bubble apparently - as we all walked back to my house together as they were walking past it anyway.

Kill your neighbour, bury them in the garden, problem sorted.

Bet nothing happens, they won’t do anything about a single curtain twitcher with no evidence.

Can your kids handle Mr Corbett videos, MsAwesome? Is it streaming or downloading that’s the issue?

I am really jealous of those of you who can do live lessons more often.

I keep changing my mind. Today was hard going with the live stuff - a couple of kids who were in school (presumably because they are a pita at home) are now back with us online doing exactly what they do in class. Putting me on mute, shouting over everyone else and so on.

I think tomorrow I'm going to say that they need to have watched the vid, tried the work etc before they come and talk to me re feedback.

What I need is Teams to have a mirror cam option so I can just take my webcam off and put it in the clamp too.

Can’t you use your phone in the clamp, Rule and have it join the meeting as a visualise?

And set their permissions so they can do fuck all.

Noble - they possibly have evidence as their security camera points across my property (another example of their extreme unreasonableness).
Fuck them. It was childcare

Numpty

schoolsweek.co.uk/williamson-pleads-ignorance-over-new-covid-strain-ahead-of-greenwich-decision-despite-hancocks-warning-hours-earlier/

A member of the kitchen staff tested positive. I was surprised that they didn't send home all of the kids who'd had school lunches!

@Piggywaspushed

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 DD is busy pretending to be a chav on tiktok. Don't ask how I know this!

The setting mute thing totally stops them writing in chat but they can unmute and talk in live lesson (unless you shut that down to). THANK YOU!!!!!!

I've seen it!

Posh kids always pretend to be chavs, I find..

Can’t you use your phone in the clamp, Rule and have it join the meeting as a visualise?

Yeah I've tried this a lot, but can't get the volume/mic situation right. I can't turn the volume on my phone (or my tablet) right down in the app, so have to mute all thtat on my laptop, which means I have to use the phone/tablet mic, which isn't as good.

Having said that, I was playing with that last week - I feel a bit more comfortable with it all now. Maybe should have another go.

In school today with Y7. The numbers overall in school are low, but we have at least 15 Y7 in daily.

I suggested to SLT that we put some of the Y7 in with Y8 (5 students) to make the bubbles more even.

However the SLT member I spoke to (who is usually most sympathetic) said that we didn't need to have kids social distancing in school so it didn't matter- which got my back up I will be honest.

First live lesson tomorrow (I did some last summer, though and last term). And Y11 parents evening- fully booked.