The Forty Second Republic - Lockdown 3 online learning struggles continue

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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 was impressed with the art oak but they clearly ran out of ideas v early. Not much going on since a couple of lessons.

I also query their choice of vocabulary. It was far too high. One word I'd never heard of and i studied at uni level.

I noticed they're going to work with the NSEAD which is good.

The thing about cultural capital is that that's very area specific.

The cultural capital of Liverpudlians is v different to those living in Penzance.

@EnemyOfEducationNo1

KS3 science seems ok so far. It's just KS4 I'm picky with. And KS2 actually (that Im using for my nurture yr7 sets) is ok.... But I feel I have to correct a few things.

Yeah, I think it's alright for Ks3 science with some exceptions - eg I thought the hooke's law lesson was not great.

I haven't really used it for ks4, but they are also getting more live lessons for science and most of them can cope with reading through an explanation without video for their non-live lessons if necessary!

And so a good curriculum would tap into that. The bbc at least can vary their presenters and Teachers.

The US order of vaccination is interesting. My DSis is kicking off because 'police are behind fat people and smokers'. Not sure I agree with her sentiment but of note is that jobs seems to be being prioritised. She should be bloody grateful. And look at the ages of priority groups

The knowledge curriculum puts a big emphasis on vocabulary, which is great in itself. What I don't like is that hey just tell kids what the words mean. It really is a front loading, stuffing in curriculum with no discovery or deduction.

With my literacy hat on, I think there is a big vocab gap which needs work - my problem is encouraging people to actually teach vocab (that's my job, obviously, all 1400 of them)
I don't want to tell them; I want to give them skills to work it out... but I keep getting told "we don't have time to..." Gah!
I had to scribe for a geography student before Christmas and there were two terms (which I can't now recall) that he'd got reversed. And I'm writing this answer knowing it's wrong, wishing he knew his prefixes!

You read Alex Quigley?

I have. I've even highlighted him.
He's no David Punter though 😂
I've got a lot of form time literacy stuff (shhh.... some is from twinkle), and explicit literacy is meant to be embedded in schemes of work ... but I can't get some people past "that's your job".

Oooh, I don't know. I have met Alex Q. Not only was he a very good trainer , he was very lovely.

I love including bits of etymology in my science teaching. I think it really helps - all the long words can really make kids go "I don't get science", but if you explain where the words came from it becomes a bit less "foreign". I hope anyway!

It does help because once they spot the pattern, they can apply it... I love words.

Don't get me wrong, vocabulary is my life in sen.

I also have had loads of training on it in mainstream.

But there's also remembering tiers of language access etc.

Also, visual vocabulary is a skill. Choosing the correct images. And visuals are not used enough.

Actually learning Latin for a while was great for etymology.

Oh yes on the Latin. Hated it at the time and dropped it when I chose options, but I have to admit it has been useful sometimes.
Caecilius est in atrio . Or something

Only word i properly remember was "in" - cos it was the same as English only did it for a couple of years at primary school.

Has the pausing of the LF testing story been picked up by anyone other than The Guardian yet??

I did Latin GCSE and it was my 4th A level option (took 3 though). Loved Latin! Had a wonderful Latin teacher who was a wonderful man with such a unique character god bless him. RIP Mr R x

Puella Romani sub arbore sedet.

I would've done Latin GCSE but Mrs Tait inconveniently died. She was about 366, and took snuff in lessons.

Funny how that's true kind of knowledge that sticks, isn't it Hamlet?!

My Latin teacher was a slimeball who ended up getting fired for sexually assaulting a pupil.
Might have tinged my view of Latin at the time.

Remember learning 23 pages of A4 translation of the Aeneid for my GCSE.

All I can remember now is 'and he thrust it up to the hilt'

Morning all. I've got the dread about turning my laptop on ffs. Slightly about how my new boundaries are going to have been received and slightly paranoid that I was a bit narky with an slt about the shit show that was year 10 kwv provision when I was in last.

I think I have issues because I'm always a bit paranoid I'm in trouble for something and maintaining even rationally reasonable boundaries makes me really anxious. I know where it stems from but still happens. I'm hoping just sticking at it and doing it will help overcome the anxiety when faced with the evidence that no one died or sacked me.

Self indulgent waffle sorry. I suspect schools kind of rely on us being nice and non assertive and not being good at saying no.

I had Miss Massicks for Classics in first year! Everyone mucked about.

Then I moved schools and had the beloved Mr Mair but they had done proper Latin so I dropped it.

But I do remember Claudia est puella and Claudius est agricola. Sexist.

I think we had the same textbook, Piggy!