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

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Keir by video isn't too powerful, or is it just me?

Isn't it a 5 week term too so there is only two weeks after that. It's going to be April isn't it?

@JanuaryChill

Keir by video isn't too powerful, or is it just me?

Agree. Although Boris is pitiful

I’d like Y11 and 13 in before Easter to do overdue mocks. That should be doable even if not proper teaching. Mocks at home just isn’t going to work and after Easter is pushing it.

I think it will be 11 and 13 only before Easter in secondary...but, who knows

@noblegiraffe

I’d like Y11 and 13 in before Easter to do overdue mocks. That should be doable even if not proper teaching. Mocks at home just isn’t going to work and after Easter is pushing it.

Me too, I've got mock results for year 11, but nothing positive for year 13. I do NOT want to have to decide CAGs with only the data we've already got. There would definitely be complaints about me being biased against their kids (the ones who "need" an A but are currently working at an E). I'm not even the main teacher, they get 3 lessons a week with the other teacher doing pure, with 2 lessons a week with me doing applied. So any CAGs would be 2/3 from him with a contribution from me.

They need as much notice for that as possible so they can revise properly seeing as these will be likely to contribute to their grades.

If we just had 2 yeargroups in, and spread them around classrooms to do mocks that would be doable in terms of SD and appropriate ventilation.

DH has his vaccine appointment - tomorrow! Whoop whoop!!

My dd2 bloody loves crafting and loves making puppet shows - she has a shoe box that she puts on one side and has a slot in the bottom side so she can poke lollipop stick cutout puppets through. Bluetacs a scene to the back, and away she goes.
It's one of her favourite things to do.
I have no idea how I ended up with this child - I absolutely hate crafting!

PM says, assuming that vaccination progress is maintained, the objective would be to begin school reopening from Monday 8th March.

Lewis Goodall.

I had 1st March, so not far off.

Dd's birthday is 8th March. She would be horrified if she had to go back to school on her birthday having been at home for so long . How likely are year 6 to be one of the first years back? Probably quite likely.

I reckon (or hope!) It will be Y11/13 back from the 8th but who knows

Least I now know to make the next KS3 assessment a forms one.

Ok. So for when/if we do go back in Marchtember, here’s some farming tech to keep us safe. Actually, it looks fantastic if it works! Can just imagine a klaxon going off in the headteacher’s office and them dashing through the corridors to evacuate the room

—> “air monitor for classrooms that can detect coronavirus (originally used to detect diseases on chicken farms)”

www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-news/air-monitor-detect-covid-symptoms-19705401.amp?__twitter_impression=true

I wouldn't take that as gospel. It's Johnson via the media. Oh, actually that might be what counts as gospel these days.

It will be Y11/13 back from the 8th

It'll be KS1 too I reckon.

Apparently CO2 monitors work too, some have suggested the idea for a while. Maybe one of the things they're doing in Germany, can't remember.

We should remember in addition to it probably being certain year groups, it could well be only certain regions/tiers, Jenny Harries said this a few days ago.

@JanuaryChill

Apparently CO2 monitors work too, some have suggested the idea for a while. Maybe one of the things they're doing in Germany, can't remember.

We should remember in addition to it probably being certain year groups, it could well be only certain regions/tiers, Jenny Harries said this a few days ago.

I have one in my lab. It is constantly flashing.

Oh and Keir said about vaccinating teachers but Boris said a big fat No to that.

How rude riga!

Urgh Laura Trott.

@JanuaryChill

How rude riga!

He's said no to vaccines, but the vaccine thing would still fit in with 8th March if school staff got them in half term. Enough time to kick in. One still to keep an eye on I think. There seems to be a fair amount of calling for it from real world folk.

Can I send my dad to be vaccinated instead of me?

@MrsHamlet my eyes have got really bad this week. I can no longer read text on a screen (phone or laptop). I have varifocals - don’t know whether to go back to opticians....

CO2 monitors are a pain under normal circumstances in my small lab. Pre-covid every post-16 lesson the alarm would go off, this cuts off the gas supply (which we weren't using) but also makes an annoying beeping noise. Ventilation wasn't the room's strong point!

My eyes are fucked since Xmas too. I only got new specs in November.