The Forty Second Republic - Lockdown 3 online learning struggles continue

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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

God some textbooks though! The GCSE film textbook is ridiculous in its reading age, font size and layout. Written by examiners you see..

One of my hats is literacy. I have to bite my tongue really hard not to shout "that's because he can't read, you dick"

My previous school was brilliant at sharing all this data. Current school - not so much.
Apparently it is all there if you look but you have to go rooting through loads of individual electronic files and you can't sort by class so have to look up each pupil individually, and tbh - who has time for that?
Bloody put it all on sima with a nice presaged report you can run for your class - would be so much easier

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@MrsHamlet

One of my hats is literacy. I have to bite my tongue really hard not to shout "that's because he can't read, you dick"

I think in our brave new world you should do this in real life 😂

I can do that.
I have a whole range of ".... you dick"s.

@Piggywaspushed

God some textbooks though! The GCSE film textbook is ridiculous in its reading age, font size and layout. Written by examiners you see..

Can I refer you to our current GCSE science textbook? Ridiculous. I'm constantly having to beg the technician to let me have first dibs on the last remaining set of Foundations in Physics/biology/chemistry textbooks that are excellent for low reading ages. Unfortunately they don't have everything in the modern syllabus being about 15/20 years old but still helpful

@MrsHamlet

I can do that. I have a whole range of ".... you dick"s.

Awesome! You are my new hero 😂

Science is supposed to ahve the highest reading age , apparently, even though they, unlike every other subject have rules about clarity of question writing.

I am finding this thread interesting:

twitter.com/BenyohaiPhysics/status/1350119162740432897

[quote Piggywaspushed]Science is supposed to ahve the highest reading age , apparently, even though they, unlike every other subject have rules about clarity of question writing.

I am finding this thread interesting:

twitter.com/BenyohaiPhysics/status/1350119162740432897[/quote]
Wtf?!

Referring to the contents of that thread I mean. Totally nonsensical!

Absolutely tell them they're dicks!!! Who moans about a kid who can't read not being able to read?! Ffs

Really? I like that thread!

@Piggywaspushed

Really? I like that thread!

The grade descriptors. Sorry if I'm not making sense. I'm being climbed on by loopy children who I don't have the energy to send to bed...

Apparently Geography has one of the highest reading ages, and I think this is right.

I've got lots with low reading ages and they just can't access GCSE

I agree with that thread. There's no such thing as grade 6 maths questions/topics either.

Guy do you ever get the feeling no one is listening to us about James Toseland and Morten Harket??

Just let them sleep where they drop enemy. Makes them good travellers.

I think reading age in science is high due to the vast quantity of specialist vocabulary students have to know. It is akin to learning a foreign language, in that to you can easily end up teaching several new words every lesson that need to be correctly used. The questions are usually very clear but that's no help if to you it reads: describe the role of the uffalump on the hemplberg and explain why omjiwats occurs when a scionis is observed.

@TheHoneyBadger

Just let them sleep where they drop enemy. Makes them good travellers.

Yeah but I'd drop before them! 🤣

My daughter did badly in her CATs in year 5, her school told me based on her results she wouldn’t pass any GCSEs....she has a first class degree now. She is however in the middle of her PGCE currently - so clearly not bright enough to have learnt from her mother’s mistakes 😂😂

@SoFranCisco

My daughter did badly in her CATs in year 5, her school told me based on her results she wouldn’t pass any GCSEs....she has a first class degree now. She is however in the middle of her PGCE currently - so clearly not bright enough to have learnt from her mother’s mistakes 😂😂

Can I be nosy? Was it universally bad across all 3 papers, or just on aggregate? It is always a mistake to pigeon hole too early. Also massive rewiring of the brain happens in puberty which can really affect potential - another reason why GCSEs are stupid.

I feel quite unsettled by the safeguarding thing I seem to have uncovered due to loud Y11 KWV girls in the library today. It's not even like it's an especially shocking thing either.

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And was just about to post this when I smelt plastic melting. "Ah that'll be the container of spaghetti I've erroneously left on top of my horrible ex-rental house stove!" I thought.

Well, after quite a lot of 🤬, 😨 and 😱, followed by flinging open of doors and windows to get rid of the smoke and smell, and disabling both smoke alarms.....

Sigh.

I think across the board, though it’s 15 years ago so I can’t really remember, other than being shocked by their bluntness! I think it was a result of her being very young in the year (mid-August birthday) - something just seemed to click with school when she was about 12, I think it can take a long time for some children to hit their stride!

@JanuaryChill

I feel quite unsettled by the safeguarding thing I seem to have uncovered due to loud Y11 KWV girls in the library today. It's not even like it's an especially shocking thing either.

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And was just about to post this when I smelt plastic melting. "Ah that'll be the container of spaghetti I've erroneously left on top of my horrible ex-rental house stove!" I thought.

Well, after quite a lot of 🤬, 😨 and 😱, followed by flinging open of doors and windows to get rid of the smoke and smell, and disabling both smoke alarms.....

Sigh.

Oh no! Hope you are ok