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

I went to a comp, but it was a Latin and classics school. I also got taught to touch type when I was 14.

Caecilius est in porto, Grumio est in atrio. Apparently.

I would like to teach Latin at our school. We're massively EAL, so spend so much time eaching vocab. I think it's pointless teaching MFL because more than half of the kids will go back to their home countries and speak Hindi/Urdu/whatever when they are there. They'll never need French. Latin would help with everything - the learning of English, the understanding of root words, cross curricular stuff.

Oh Grumio!! Blast from the past!

Glad yr laptop held no nastiness for you honey.

So what would being obsessed with The Famous Five as a child say about my future life I wonder?? I'd love to have done that course!

This led me off on a lunchtime tangent - people might be mad:

www.etsy.com/ie/listing/896213253/caecilius-est-in-atrio-6-inch-hoop

@MrsHamlet

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

I loved Enid Blyton!

Though also did Latin!

I did Latin with the Cambridge Latin course. I loved it, but didn't have enough options to do it at GCSE. It really does help with vocabulary. I feel like I spend a lot more time than I expected on vocabulary, but there are loads of mathematical words they'll never use anywhere else. Explaining where parts of the words come from helps some of my kids (and baffles some of them too).

Well done on sticking to your boundaries honey

[quote RuleWithAWoodenFoot]This led me off on a lunchtime tangent - people might be mad:

www.etsy.com/ie/listing/896213253/caecilius-est-in-atrio-6-inch-hoop[/quote]
Embroidered Caecilius......Oh my word, tempting (although not very well proportioned and faintly rude-looking these days...)

(Outing) - my year 4 Exceeding group are bored of me saying "Cerberus in via latrat" as an example of onomatopoeia in another language.

Ours was a very bog standard comp - we might have had a lesson of Latin a week in the third year but no Shakespeare at all (unless you did a-level, I didn’t).

Apparently it took my grandfather the whole of the Second World War to read War and Peace - I have his copy somewhere, it’ll probably have to wait until I retire for me to plod through!

To come back to Latin , I did classics at the largest comp in Scotland.

Miss Massicks most probably shouldn't have been there though...

Oh I did Cambridge Latin too! The adventures of Quintus

I might have read the first page of War and Peace at some point. does that count?

I’m not sure our Latin teacher should have been there, Piggy. To my surprise she still is. Which means she’s was probably much younger than we thought she was.

Surprised she’s not the subject of many AIBU threads. Perhaps parents at home are a bit less complainy than U.K. ones.

Bubble closed at school today. Full 10 days isolation. I almost went in yesterday because I'm so desperate just to 'go' somewhere, so kind of glad I didn't now.

Don’t know if we’d had this yet.

www.microcovid.org/?distance=normal&duration=60&interaction=oneTime&personCount=1&riskProfile=hasCovid&setting=indoor&subLocation=United_Kingdom_England&theirMask=none&topLocation=United_Kingdom&voice=normal&yourMask=none

The numbers today

Gosh Rafa that calculator would make my classroom extremely high risk if we were in school. So those of you at school working with KW children, you are at extremely high risk every day (unless your classrooms are significantly bigger than mine)

@chocolateisavegetable

The numbers today

Just awful, it seems madness that we are going to work everyday when so many people are losing their lives

I know starry There are 2 in my class waiting for Covid test results, and yet we get people on other threads attacking us for whinging about wanting to be safe

The numbers today are really upsetting, and we don't even have the comfort of cases continuing to go down today.

It puts everything into perspective, really- I have a lot of petty grumbles from today, but the most important thing is that we do everything we can to make sure numbers continue to fall.

That micro covid thing is scary!
I feel really uncomfortable about some stuff that's been going on today at work. Nothing safeguardingy, but all horribly Big Brother. I have no objection to being held to account - but it's all gone a bit weird today.

@chocolateisavegetable

I know starry There are 2 in my class waiting for Covid test results, and yet we get people on other threads attacking us for whinging about wanting to be safe

I'm trying to avoid those threads where possible. But I've pretty much decided that if we are supposed to go back to work as normal straight after half term, I am going to try and get myself signed off- I just can't face it. Cases have gone up in my local area load, and I am really scared of being ill for several weeks even if I am ultimately fine.

Do you know what-I think this would just about finish me off.

Are nurses and doctors currently having auditors breathing down their necks whilst they work on COVID wards or Nightingale hospitals??

starry

Fuck off ofsted

Numbers are criminal. They can bleat about new variant (that they've known about for months) but they have let this happen by refusing circuit breakers and burying their heads in the sand.

Over 1800 following yesterday's 1600+

My school is not going ahead with daily testing to avoid isolation. I would like to think my sending the head articles from bmj and other quarters may have helped. Apparently they'd already decided before yesterday's news.