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

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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

So many people I know have got dogs recently - I think almost everyone I know in fact, slightly weirdly. Not us. I never want to pick up animal shit in my hands, even with a bag.

I'm really struggling with motivation today. It's my only non-child day, so really need to do all planning for next week so I can get it up by 4pm and have a weekend, but meh.

It's the last summer before DS heads off to uni so I will not be giving up any part of it to cover in any capacity.
Also getting a dog later this spring. Been too long without one and our house feels like it's missing a piece. This year has shown life is for living and so I'm not waiting any longer.

Summer school is also a no from me. I'd rather quit.

OK - can I block an individual kid on teams from accessing the 'team chat'? Not the meeting chat - the general board one?

Little shit just threatened one of the mums with his mum after lockdown. What the actual fuck?!

@RuleWithAWoodenFoot

OK - can I block an individual kid on teams from accessing the 'team chat'? Not the meeting chat - the general board one?

Little shit just threatened one of the mums with his mum after lockdown. What the actual fuck?!

Oh god. Can you get a screen shot of that?

Send it to the behaviour manager, they should be banned for a few lessons for that.

Just had a painful lease on with Year 9. Set most of them off on an independent task. One kid stayed on with me so I could explain it.

He still doesn’t get it, and I can’t think of a way to explain it in a more simple way.

Oh yes, I've done a screen shot. I've blocked them all for now while I wait for guidance from on high.

The most educationally vulnerable are often vulnerable precisely because their engagement with school is difficult at the best of times

Exactly, unless you targeted it and made it compulsory, you’ll just end up with the kids with supportive parents, increasing the gap for disadvantaged children further.

I spotted that thread and ignored it monkey. They’ll be a bit less smug when they realise not much changes until the world is vaccinated, not just the U.K. and if the caution over using the AZ vaccine in over 65s proves to be correct. Vaccine nationalism is a bit pointless.

Rule - I think you can remove them from the team so they can access they channel at all. That's what we've been told to do if they abuse the chat, because they can carry on outside the meeting in the main chat.

You can add them back later when the situation is sorted.

Our problem is not having had a policy on this. I suspect.

Child is EAL and SEND, parents don't speak English.

Problem also is that there is reams of shit on there, which I'm now going to have to read to find the other examples of him doing it (apparently).

What we also need to be able to do is delete the whole general channel chat at the end of every day. But you need admin rights for that.

Sorry can I just jump on and ask, has anyone been given guidelines for behaviour for the KWV in school? And any idea how we ensure older ones are using our IT for live lessons rather than gaming (I know!)?Yes we walk round, even ask them what lessons they've got that day AND use Impero to monitor screens from the main desk.

But short of a1:1 staff member monitoring that child the whole time, we can't force them, can we? I think the oik in question should be put on report, digitally, myself!

Seeing yr stuff too rule, the trouble is we're all learning as we go, aren't we? And kids tend to learn ways round boundaries faster than we can foresee them!

Any of you lovely lot got any clever ideas for revising online, needs at least 10 minutes of me doing something at the start but would like to get them doing something in breakout rooms. Y10/9. My brain hurts and is completely blank. Only this one lesson to plan and then I can actually have a weekend. Don't know if I'm being more efficient or lowering my standards significantly.

Are you Teams or GC?

Teams

@RuleWithAWoodenFoot yes you can. Go into your class team and click the three dots next to the team name and then manage team then members. There is a box along from each name which says ‘mute’ tick this and that individual student cannot post in chat (meeting) or posts in team until you unmute them. They can speak in a live lesson on their mic. You can tick them off and on whenever you like.

@EvilEdnasEnemiesOfEducation what subject again?

EvilEdnas what subject?

Sorry, should have realised the subject was important! Science. I'm not a lazy person honestly I'm just so exhausted I'm out of ideas

revising online, needs at least 10 minutes of me doing something at the start but would like to get them doing something in breakout rooms.

Cloze activités for revising terminology?
Creating mini quizzes for each other?
Problem solving activity?
If this is the answer, what is the question?
Prep for 'Just a Minute' on a specific topic?

Don't apologise for being knackered - my brain is increasingly not functioning. I tried to use the word 'feathers' to describe 'leaves' to Yr7 in the week...

@EvilEdnasEnemiesOfEducation

Sorry, should have realised the subject was important! Science. I'm not a lazy person honestly I'm just so exhausted I'm out of ideas

Do you have revision mats/broadsheets? I'd put them in groups and tell them to get as many correct answers as possible in however long. You could share the document beforehand so they can write on their own (or some techy collaborative thing?)

[quote MrsHerculePoirot]@RuleWithAWoodenFoot yes you can. Go into your class team and click the three dots next to the team name and then manage team then members. There is a box along from each name which says ‘mute’ tick this and that individual student cannot post in chat (meeting) or posts in team until you unmute them. They can speak in a live lesson on their mic. You can tick them off and on whenever you like.[/quote]
Super, thanks.

He's a gonner.

For a fun game I recommend Quizlet live as a revision activity. Set up a Quizlet with the keywords and definitions. Do a few practise runs as individuals, then press random teams. They get shown a definition and only one in their team has the right answer - they need to click whilst everyone else waits (and tries to communicate telepathically the correct answer).

Bloody awful Friday, which means now I'm behind in both planning AND marking. Dealing with some little shit. I suppose this is more like normal teaching though, huh!

My visualiser killed the sound on my laptop today so they could hear me but not me them. Year 11 were hard. Y10 might as well have been dead.
What a shit day.