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.

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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

I think we all X.

I just meant that I think that hides the reality. …surprise.

My pumpkin curry was delicious. I'm going to blitz the rest into soup.

But I am calling them year 7 on recorded lessons I'm afraid. Maybe that counts as ok given I am addressing the whole of year 7 rather than just a class?

If we're going back after half term, I can hack current set up at home. I've got a riser, an extra monitor, a mouse and a keyboard. My chair is crap though. Partner has his chair from work, might ask him to go and borrow another one if we're off until Easter.

Oh yr idea thru glass isn't bad honey, although when I went a t Christmas I went round that way but they still had to hand me a huge disclaimer form to complete, and their PPE.... will give it some thought though, thank you. What I really want to do (and think we probably be of most benefit to him, altho who knows?) is to give him a big big hug.

Down's people now live sometimes to 60 whereas it used to be 40, however of those who reach 50, 40% will have early onset dementia to some degree or other. In October they were included in the CEV group.
Yay for yr heating!

It's not x on go. We have several codes relating to Covid. One is si can't remember the others. I think it breaks up whose positive, whose isolating as a close contact etc. At least 3 different codes.

Also ages ago I asked about sd code I think and none of us knew. I've found by observation that it seems to be kids who are moving to another school or home Ed but aren't officially off roll yet. We seem to have had more of that than usual and in at least a couple of cases it has been parent can't cope and child has gone to live with other parent hence school age.

One was a year seven I was instinctively worried about but wavered whether I should 'my concern' it when it was so vague but eventually I did. Timing was that I got the so and so is now backdated off roll email only a few days later and told mum was not coping so she'd gone to live with dad. I was very glad it was nothing sinister but it confirmed to go with those instincts.

It was literally just that her attendance levels that were low didn't match how keen and willing she was to catch up when in and just a sense of sadness and detachment from the other kids about her. Nothing big at all but it didn't feel right and I'm not generally a worrier. Hope she's doing ok with her dad and new school.

I had a student change to D this week. I know she's going to the PRU, so that would make sense.

Hadn't heard that January. Not easy growing up with a sibling with considerable extra needs I imagine. Not generalising and I know it can go the other way but I've taught a few boys with disabled or chronically ill siblings and they were really conscientious and responsible and appeared not to want to be any trouble to anyone.

Glad heating is sorted Honey. It is miserable being cold January I hope you get something sorted x

It should be X code. I report to the dfe daily with actual numbers absent which includes all the x codes so they are aware of the figures! I don't use any of the Sims number codes. X won't affect a student's attendance percentage at all.

Just spoke to the home and am completely going with Honey's brilliant compromise idea, thank you!!! 💐 Hopefully tomorrow morning, but have said to ring me if he deteriorates tonight. District Nurse thinks he has c1-3 days left.

Apologies have completely derailed thread today. It's so lovely to have this community though, thank you.

Yeah, I value the experience of growing up with him, in all sorts of ways.

January May his final days be peaceful, sending you strength.

Glad you now have heating Honey

Sorry all - I know this has been mentioned so many times before but I need advice re: some tablet / pen combo to annotate PDFs and send back to the kids. Only requirements are that it is cheap and idiot proof! Happy to put PDF as image into another doc if needed.

DH is about to order me a Bamboo but I've asked him to wait until I have tapped in to your collective genius

I bought the xp-pen on Amazon. It's taken me a while to get used to it but it works brilliantly.

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Hadn't heard that January. Not easy growing up with a sibling with considerable extra needs I imagine. Not generalising and I know it can go the other way but I've taught a few boys with disabled or chronically ill siblings and they were really conscientious and responsible and appeared not to want to be any trouble to anyone.

Definition of our DS1. He struggled with DS2 as he was growing up. He's an amazing brother and son and has had to deal with so much as a sibling to a severely disabled child.

How old is he now monkey? Bless him.

@JanuaryChill in his 20s now😊

@JanuaryChill

Just spoke to the home and am completely going with Honey's brilliant compromise idea, thank you!!! 💐 Hopefully tomorrow morning, but have said to ring me if he deteriorates tonight. District Nurse thinks he has c1-3 days left.

Apologies have completely derailed thread today. It's so lovely to have this community though, thank you.

Yeah, I value the experience of growing up with him, in all sorts of ways.

Don't apologise for derailing the thread, because you haven't. This is a support thread. It's not the same but my brother was ASC and bipolar. Growing up with someone who needs something different from the standard experience takes away, but it also gives. I wasn't able to be there when my brother died, but they promised me he did not die alone and someone held his hand - and that person spoke to me afterwards. And actually that was enough for me.

Although - could you get hold of a disposable DIY boiler suit and mask? Just in case through a window is not enough?

I have an xp pen too, it seems to be found what I want it to. £59 from amazon, but they do have some for circa £35.

Glad you have found a solution January and that posting here helped.

Thanks. Trouble is boiler suits don't control the air you breathe all going a bit 80s there. I'm boringly good at self control.

I know boiler suits don't stop inhalation which is why I suggested DIY masks as well. It's all about dose - if you are not there for too long and wear a proper mask (not cloth or surgical) and cover your clothes - then it is not 100% but will reduce viral dose as long as you are not there too long?

True. I've always regarded fabrics as not enabling virus to 'stick' to them iyswim. Which I think is three quarters true.

Just had a painful (as in tortuous) conversation with Co op funeral care about a mistake on his funeral plan (relevant to immediately after death) which I don't want causing the home extra hassle. All I can say is, if that's the usual standard of their call centre night staff, I hope he goes in daytime.....

I’m so sorry January it’s a good compromise.

crackle X-Pen is good but I can’t get it to work on a PDF.

I'm so sorry to hear about your brother January. I hope it brings you both some comfort for you to see him, even if it is a compromise.

Crackle I got one of these www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B077W5SZD3/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_fabc_PF3aGb93TAAVZ?tag=mumsnetforu03-21 someone recommended it on here. I'm looking it. Especially now someone told me you can write on pdfs as long as you open them in edge rather than Adobe reader. It's so much easier to mark like that (I had been printing, marking then scanning to return, complete faff and so much paper!!!)

I think I need a new chair for working from home. Dh has a fancy snazzy office chair that I bought for his birthday, whereas I'm on a cheap dining chair that is really not very comfortable for long time periods.