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-

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-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

staff only isolated if the app went off

And only if the app wasn't due to exposure in school, in which case it was overruled due to the school risk assessment that put us 2m away from each other.

Also really struggling at the moment. Every day is the same, I dread the weekends as there's nothing to do. Fibro pain is particularly bad at the mo and everything just seems so pointless.

Happy birthday rule!🎉

Sorry to hear that cantaloupe. I hear you about the weekends, it feels like there's nothing to look forward to. 💐

I dread the weekends as there's nothing to do

Me too. Last weekend I was so bored that I've saved some nice work tasks for this weekend to actually fill my time. Exciting.

Even though it's a sunny day, we can't go out at all because waiting for test result. The drive to the test centre was the furthest I've been from home in weeks and weeks.

Happy birthday Rule

I know what you mean about the weekends. I have what feels like an age of annual leave left to take before the end of March because of the time I had off sick over the summer. 4 days in to 11 days off (including weekends) and I'm beginning to wish I hadn't written and submitted both my essays last week.

If it stopped pissing down with rain that would help. Might be a baking afternoon.

I dread the weekends as there's nothing to do

Me too. Two year old to entertain - don’t get me wrong, I treasure the time with her but she’s just had it with being indoors in our tiny living room. We have to take her out in the pouring rain to stop her climbing the walls and even then she moans that she’s cold/wet/wants to be carried.

On the flip side, she loves weekdays with her grandparents or nursery, I guess because of the change of scene (shall try and not be insulted!).

DP and I admitted to each other last night that we wish the pandemic had happened five years ago, then at least we’d be resting at the weekends rather than being in CBeebies presenter mode for 12 hours a day....though I guess we’d have been more bored and much fatter.

Non teacher friends understandably wary of meeting up at the park etc for fear of being caught in an isolation as a contact of mine.

It’s crap. Fingers crossed for some warmer weather soon. Even an afternoon in the garden without frostbite would be a treat for everyone right now!

I've turned into a weekend sleeping machine. That passes the time.

I did a bit of work yesterday so I'm going to try and leave it today. I need to get a load of steps in somehow. Ds was asleep on the sofa and woke up to me walking around him in circles while the kettle boiled.

Can't summon the energy for cleaning though sadly

Happy Covid-test Birthday rule .... hope it's negative.

IME, and as I go on in life I see it more and more in myself and others: when situations (Covid, hormones, bereavement, work, whatever) really get to me, it's actually because of underlying issues that go back to my childhood.

Which I'm slowly dealing with, a bit more each episode, but I think they're going to take a lifetime.

Sorry, not meaning to be negative, but I do find it helps to spot where a problem's really coming from. And get counselling!

My really successful-in-life friends are so much more resilient than me.

Thanks for the replies. I just hope they do something to improve safety before we reopen but I can't really see that happening.

I think at the most we'll be 'phased' over something like a week or a fortnight, but then it'll be everyone back in as 'normal' - covid-normal.

My proper birthday treat is having control of the TV remote. No bloody football or Eurosport or shite about the history of hip hop today. Instead I watched The Help and now I'm on series one of Man Down.

If anyone wants a read to make you laugh - Adam Buxton's Ramble Book has made me laugh more in the first 4 chapters than anything else has this year so far!

I am someone who never takes work 'home' and I have just spent two hours planning two lessons.

I'm deleting messages from the general chat in Teams. I've now blocked them all apart from being able to reply to me, then I can delete them every day.

Super use of my time.

Living the birthday dream Rule...

I’m in full burying my head in sand technique. Each week I focus on my three days of work to get to the end of weds - that usually feels manageable. Then it’s two days of home schooling and washing - that feels manageable. Then we have one long walk and one short walk and I plan my lessons - usually feels manageable. I just try to ignore the bigger picture or long term or anything else at the moment. I think it’s how I’m coping - just 2/3 chunks at a time. I have to say glad my kids are a bit older - they can entertain themselves (with a screen) but also give us something to think about maybe to ease the boredom a bit. It’s all very Groundhog Day though...

Last year we left the EU on my birthday, so I spent quite a large chunk of the day either in tears, or on the verge of tears, so.. this might be better?

Thinking about 50th birthday in Buenos Aires.. tango..

I'm sort of doing the same - Friday's Teams behaviour shit rather took up the afternoon though, so I couldn't get the stuff done that I needed to for Monday.

Happy birthday Rule! 🎂

It's our wedding anniversary today and had a nice lie in, no work and have been out riding with my daughters.

A good day. 😊

Happy birthday Rule 🎂 and happy anniversary Twinkle 🎉. Lockdown celebrations really are shit 😔 I hope your test comes back negative Rule.

Happy birthday rule and happy anniversary twinkle.

I need desperately to do some work. I can’t currently face it.

@Timeturnerplease

I dread the weekends as there's nothing to do

Me too. Two year old to entertain - don’t get me wrong, I treasure the time with her but she’s just had it with being indoors in our tiny living room. We have to take her out in the pouring rain to stop her climbing the walls and even then she moans that she’s cold/wet/wants to be carried.

On the flip side, she loves weekdays with her grandparents or nursery, I guess because of the change of scene (shall try and not be insulted!).

DP and I admitted to each other last night that we wish the pandemic had happened five years ago, then at least we’d be resting at the weekends rather than being in CBeebies presenter mode for 12 hours a day....though I guess we’d have been more bored and much fatter.

Non teacher friends understandably wary of meeting up at the park etc for fear of being caught in an isolation as a contact of mine.

It’s crap. Fingers crossed for some warmer weather soon. Even an afternoon in the garden without frostbite would be a treat for everyone right now!

I could easily have written this post. I have so many inside hobbies - -get your minds out of the gutter-- that I would love to be devoting lots of time to. Unfortunately: Cross stitch = scissors ✂ Jigsaws = missing pieces 🧩 Xbox = dying when controller gets grabbed 🎮 Reading = book stolen and replaced with "That's not my..." 📖 I love DD, but restful is not a word I'd use to describe wet weekends. She won't even nap if she doesn't go out for a long walk!

Happy birthday rule and happy anniversary twinkle.

Groundhog Day here as well.
I'm trying to cut down on the booze as I'm seriously starting to think in getting a problem with it, but omg there is loads I could do, but nothing I want to iyswim?
I could tidy up my work emails and delete a few hundred.
I could clean the fridge
I have already cleaned the bathrooms, vacuumed, taken the kids out for fresh air and yet more mud. Also done 2 loads of washing - one of which was exclusively muddy child clothes.
I could plan my lessons beyond tomorrow. This is so not me - I'm normally at least a week ahead and sketched out to the end of term.

Things I want to do - go back to bed (4 year old will not leave me be)
Read a book (too frustrating when I keep getting interrupted)
Get absolutely rat arsed in a pub with a fire somewhere after a nice long walk with mates and no children.... Yeah, dream on on many counts

My parents both had the pzifer vaccine today. They were so excited. Dd went out for a walk too after refusing to move from her pit.
Got to take the small wins. Agree about ground hog day.

Ah yeah, both my 'rents are jabbed now, with next appt in 3 weeks time - which I'm surprised about. Good though.

Helps to live in a posh rural area I think. For them. I do not live in a posh rural area.

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