The Forty Fourth Republic - primaries sort of in, secondaries out, Gormless Gav says two weeks notice

[Staffdontblowitnow]

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

Gosh @Frlrlrubert Fingers crossed you get the outcome you want.
We had redundancy consultations with support staff a few years ago. Luckily enough chose voluntary before it got to having to choose people. Never a nice process.

It is noble :)
Turns out moths and tree bark are where it's at!!!

I think in that situation I’d be looking elsewhere anyway frlrl, sounds like next year will be rubbish if you stay. Science teachers can get jobs where they don’t have to teach English and do get A-level!

Do you know if you got the vaccine? MrsH? Dare you to go on threads and say ‘well I’m a teacher and I’ve had mine already’

No. I can ask you be unblinded but only with a confirmed real appointment. Rumour has it that if it gets approved, those of us who got the placebo will be offered the real thing... but who knows.
First injection - no reaction.
The second I did react to - aches in my bones, hugely swollen arm and a huge red mark like a handprint came up over the next few days. Plus my blood pressure tanked.
Oddly when I had my flu jab, that happened again. It never has before.
I'm really glad Saucery put me on to it.

@noblegiraffe

I think in that situation I’d be looking elsewhere anyway frlrl, sounds like next year will be rubbish if you stay. Science teachers can get jobs where they don’t have to teach English and do get A-level!

I know, I've got my eye out (have had for a while), but I'm in a funny little town, my school is on the very edge of the nearest big city, so anything that way would increase my commute, and the other way is all fields and schools where teachers stay until they retire. I don't want to increase my commute, especially as DD starts primary this September so the morning rush will be even more hectic.

It's weird cos we've got really good staff, a bit of an SLT shakeup and a bit of listening (SLT aren't intentionally or intrinsically bad, they just make decisions without consulting anyone else) and we could turn it around like lightening. Next year could go either way I think.

Even HoD said we probably won't end up teaching out of specialism, I think I just got spooked filling in the form!

schoolsweek.co.uk/dfe-knew-about-new-strain-before-issuing-greenwich-direction-admits-top-civil-servant/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

DfE knew about the new strain when they told Greenwich to reopen schools, despite making a ‘mistake’ earlier this month when giving evidence and claiming they didn’t.

Well there's a surprise. Lying little fuck.

@thecatfromjapan I think I might love you a little bit!!! I think I'll go for flirty indifference tomorrow.

I did a flirt this morning with my Hello Fresh delivery guy. Was a right little treat.

I've lost my appetite and feel rough. No temp, well none of note, but headachy and just not firing on all cylinders.

"Miss... who are you waving at?"
"The postman"
"Didn't you wave at him last lesson?"

Maybe.

I felt like that yesterday rule. Went to bed at 6:30, abandoning dd to dh's tender care (she wasn't impressed with his efforts at putting her to bed). I slept for 12 hours and have been fine today. Mine seemed to be a mix of my normal monthly migraine and too much screen time. Nothing touched it but sleep. Maybe you should go to bed?

Hi all. Just crawling in knackered and now pissed after parents' evening (no I don't know how grades will be awarded).

Spent the morning divided between teaching and making my poor year 3 DS cry before realising the Twinkl worksheet he'd been set was year 6, and he want just being careless.

This is hell on fucking earth!

*wasn't

Fuck, my 22 year old neighbour across the road has just been taken to hospital.
She's a TA in a specialist residential college.
I knew her and her partner had Covid as there was a note in their window about standing back when doing deliveries.
She's only 22. I've been running with her and she had to keep stopping for me so she's fit.
Their elderly neighbours on one side, and their neighbours on the other, also have Covid. I've asked the elderly couple if they need anything but apparently their daughter from over the county border is sorting everything
Most of us in this road exchange pleasantries fairly regularly, wave as we walk past etc, take each other bins in. You know neighbours. And now we have a mini outbreak just from being neighbourly

Wow enemy.

Gosh enemy that sounds awful for your neighbours. I hope they all make a full recovery. Have you been very neighbourly recently? Should you now be isolating? It makes me glad I don't talk to my neighbours very often (we get along ok, but we've not got anything in common so never going to be friends).

I'm wondering if it the new super infectious variant. We are all pretty careful to stand well back when chatting In the street. 2-3 m

The Ta lady has been ill for about two weeks. The neighbours non either side since about the weekend.
I stopped and had a chat with one of the TAs neighbours on Sunday, but we were on opposite sides of the road - so I think we are ok. I did take some printing across for her yesterday, but just shoved it through the letterbox.
The ambulance was really loud just now. I'm amazed it didn't wake my kids up!

@MrsHamlet

No. I can ask you be unblinded but only with a confirmed real appointment. Rumour has it that if it gets approved, those of us who got the placebo will be offered the real thing... but who knows. First injection - no reaction. The second I did react to - aches in my bones, hugely swollen arm and a huge red mark like a handprint came up over the next few days. Plus my blood pressure tanked. Oddly when I had my flu jab, that happened again. It never has before. I'm really glad Saucery put me on to it.

You’re welcome! I kick myself every day for not doing it tbh 🤦‍♀️. Next pandemic that I’m invited to trial vaccines in I’ll say yes to!

Reading threads but not posting much.

It’s a bloody long slog to the other side of this and I’m starting to flag a bit tbh. Only 4 away from full class capacity now and it feels like a mockery of what it should be like. I’ve asked if the class can be split (we have the staff and rooms) but batted away with “there were no maximum levels set this time”. I can’t understand it, because SLT have been so on the ball up to now, with cleaning, PPE supplied, shit hot on staff social distancing and wearing masks to move about the school.
Then, crammed in a normal classroom with double staffing and 21 children. Parents are panicking about the length of time their children will be out of school and starting to send them back in. Head just keeps agreeing, no matter what their job. Madness.

Hello lovelies.
Utterly trashed.

Thank god some LAs have made a clinical decision to vaccinate Sen staff in some Sen schools (it seems to depend on the ages and level of physical support pupils need.)

That is very good news, Trashed. Colleagues in SEN settings have been badly let down by their working conditions being ignored (even more than the rest of us). When OT and Physio are refusing to come in but the TA / teacher is expected to do the same high contact exercises with the child? Ridiculous.

Hi all,
I have been reading but haven't found the time to post. Hope everyone is ok.

January, there was an AMA thread on Mumsnet maybe a year ago, from a crematorium assistant. I think it gave comfort to many posters who had been bereaved.

It's Friday! So glad, and it's my nice Friday with only 2 lessons. I've started a Desmos training course yesterday, with the ASMP, 5 sessions. They are running it again in April, if anyone is interested.

It's brilliant news saucery! And happening v v soon.

Unfortunately my own sen school doesn't qualify but I'm glad for the others.

Thank goodness it’s Friday-this week seems to have gone on forever.

The papers seem to be gunning for getting those lazy teachers to work through their summer holidays which they clearly think is the solution to everything but ‘might meet some union resistance’!

Bloody hell. Don’t they mean it would need the school staff pay and conditions being completely rewritten-that’s not the same thing!

The Fail is moaning that schools provided ‘classes’ last Easter but won’t be this half term so the children will all be 5 years behind (thanks Anne the children’s commissioners for this bollocksy little made up gem). We didn’t provide classes last Easter, it was childcare.