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

What's CLAIT?

I think it stand for Computer Literacy and Information Technology.

I don't think it was around when I was at school (well, computers weren't!) but I'm just younger than the O level set.

Dh used to teach CLAIT at evening classes!

A lot of our kids could do with a bit of CLAIT right now.

Oh my god, couldn't they just?

Well, and Latin. Their vocabulary would be much better - they'd understand science terms and other important stuff. (I didn't study Latin but French to A level and it helps a lot with Latin-derived words - as well as already having a good English vocab meaning I can work Latin out from my English, too!)

It does. I learned to touch type - my mum is actually an audio typist but only uses 4 fingers. I can use all of mine but if I swap keyboards it all goes to pot

English also comes form Greek and German and Hindi and loads of other languages mind! We are a magpie language!

I didn't do Latin. I don't think my school was a 'Latin' type. We were more the smoking in the toilets type.

So glad they've u-turned on testing in place of isolation. I was nearly prepared to refuse to go back into work if that continued.

@MrsHamlet I can touch type - best skill I taught myself and I got all the best summer temp jobs, well paid, as a result. Even now the kids love it when I am typing on my computer, but looking at them and answering their question but my typing is fast and still accurate. It freaks then out!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55730890

Yes, know the feeling, but is it just feeding our new addiction - ie wanting to know any relevant news immediately??

(^^ Addressed to random)

Or to be the first to post it here.... 😜

@JanuaryChill

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55730890

Yes, know the feeling, but is it just feeding our new addiction - ie wanting to know any relevant news immediately??

Haha.

I take your point. I guess because the news about LFTs was good news, I felt the FOMO strongly

Totally, Piggy.

I also studied German to a reasonable level (no Hindu though ). The point I was clumsily making was if you have a very high level English vocab you can reverse work out the latin/greek/german/French etc and it's a virtuous circle of that helping you with your English. Does that make sense?

I want a small I told you so prize re lft bollocks being quietly dropped.
Definitely didn't attend a Latin type school and I did gcse bsit.

Nothing terrifying on email bar small dig from a colleague saying they had hoed to discuss this with me in the meeting but email will have to do. Responded to the issue and just added I attend meetings on a week 2 as usual.

My remote lessons for the year group I'm responsible for are recorded and shared for colleagues use provided for up to the end of next week and all student work has been marked and returned and I've done more than my share of kw provision this week. Realistically there's nothing for anyone to complain about. I'm holding onto that.

I did Latin. We found there being a chap called Sextus hilarious. We didn't get out much
So so fed up with what I'm doing just now, I work every evening and on my days off and it is never enough. Threatened to send dc in to KW provision next week. (I won't). Maybe I could send myself in!!

HoneyBadger

@chocolateisavegetable

HoneyBadger

Thanks lol.

I loved Latin, too, always trying to push its value on any higher level groups I get to take. We did Dido and Aeneas, I can still hear the intonation of our teacher declaiming "But the queen - for who can deceive a lover? - found out early his deceit" etc.

Happy days.

I didn't do Latin. I don't think my school was a 'Latin' type. We were more the smoking in the toilets type.

My school didn’t either. I am of Labour’s ‘bog standard’ comp era. My school also had to bring in child development lessons to try and stop the levels of teen pregnancy my school year damaged the ten year’s worth of progress 😂😂😂

It’s like finding out you lot read War and Peace in your spare time all over again.

If it helps, I did my dissertation on Enid Blyton.

Enid Blyton: Was Timmy really a lesser loved sibling- a postmodern analysis of the Famous Five

That sort of thing?

I definitely haven't read War and Peace
I'm more of a Terry Pratchett type

I went to a Latin and Lacrosse school - state school but seemed to think it was Mallory Towers or something! All I can remember is the Latin for 6 (a cause of much teenage girl hilarity during Latin bingo) and the chanting of O,S,T,MUS,TIS,NT. Had no idea what Boris was on about with his ‘supine stem of confiteor’ tho 😂

@noblegiraffe

Enid Blyton: Was Timmy really a lesser loved sibling- a postmodern analysis of the Famous Five

That sort of thing?

Mainly noddy, but yes 🤣

@MrsHamlet

If it helps, I did my dissertation on Enid Blyton.

On one of my counselling cod workshops we had to say which was our favourite book when we were young children and why. We then used an approach to analyse how telling that was about our character and values. Mine was the magic faraway tree and was absolutely spot on. It's like it was the analogy of my life to come.

My dissertation was rather more boring.