The broom cupboard 2 - just for when we get briefly stranded without a staffroom

[TheHoneyBadger]

I'll pop a link in the old one so you know where to find safe haven. I have tried to clear out some space by getting rid of the ohp and vcr trolley and gin is hidden behind the sick sand bucket.

The Telegraph are going with a front page on schools tomorrow that isn't actually news, but simply that Boris wants schools open on the 8th. Setting a narrative?

Juxtaposed against a headline about the new SA variant.

january sorry the funeral have seen some set backs. Just makes an already difficult time even worse.

So sorry Jan, I hope things get better for you soon.

I'm feeling more positive about better days as 900,000 vaccines happened over the weekend. 8th March still feels too early.

I have a horrible feeling all schools will be back as normal on 8th March. Then cases will rise again.

Hope I’m wrong.

@WhenSheWasBad

I have a horrible feeling all schools will be back as normal on 8th March. Then cases will rise again.

Hope I’m wrong.

Have to say I was thinking that earlier.

Thanks all. I've at least managed to sort out why, fundamentally, I'm so upset about the issue. That's helpful.

Does feel like we're being prepared for a full return rather than staggered doesn't it?

Just saw this on Twitter-Austria’s plan for reopening schools.

Bet our plan will be...

‘Schools will reopen fully as before. Masks will not be required in the classroom as they interfere with teaching and learning. Catch up, catch up, CATCH UP!’

I really am not happy about sending my kids back to school until cases are a LOT lower in my area - just heard of ANOTHER household infected on my road.
Mind you - we are a fairly chatty friendly lot, so probably unsurprisingly :(

What's a 'gurgle test'? Children whose parents don't consent to testing will have to homeschool - that wouldn't pass here, we can't even get them to wear masks.

Someone posted on another thread recently that their school was piloting saliva testing.

I think we'll be going back as normal in primary with teacher testing but with mass testing and maybe staggered year groups in secondary. And a begrudging vaccine when they've done the important groups.Possibly masks.

I'm keeping ds at home this week except Friday when I'm in school but may cancel that too if he gets all the work done. Doesn't seem safe given the high numbers being sent in and it's fast becoming a behavioural unit rather than a learning space for kw/v.

Seriously awkward being a parent and teacher at the same school as you can see who isn't following protocols but difficult to address it because you have to work there.

Seems to have been a lot of dodgy papers over relied upon by gov and media despite lack of proper peer review. Plays into the hands of a culture of anti expertise and mistrust unfortunately.

I can't sleep and there's no alcohol in the house

@TheHoneyBadger

I can't sleep and there's no alcohol in the house

Can I recommend BBC sounds "The boring talks". Coal hole covers one is especially soothing

Dd2 likes an app called calm sleep for their guided sleep meditations. We listen to one each night, and often both drift off. The female voices seem more soothing for dd2.

Honey Read a Nice (not too riveting) Book ...

Sure one of you can help this colleague in distress:
Very boring teams question www.mumsnet.com/Talk/the_staffroom/4153760-Very-boring-teams-question

Laptop plus iPad how can children view what she's writing....

I tend to use meditation oasis.

Have just had ds asking where the measuring jug is because of course he's cooking at nearly midnight. This whole in and out of school business has played havoc with his body clock and I'm failing to enforce it.

I was always really strict about bedtimes before all of this and become so again when school is in but I tend to rule through reason and logic and maintaining school bedtimes when school is not on is hard for me to get behind.

He got all work done today and attended lessons that were live and will do so again tomorrow. He claims not to be at all tired which I can believe as he used to spend hours every day in pe (he gets stationary pe plus his Btec sessions) and out on his bike and generally just being on the move all day. Sitting in front of a screen just isn't tiring in the same way.

I'm going to listen to a meditation. Night all. Hope funeral stuff can be resolved January. A lot on your shoulders x

Sorry to hear there's been complications with the arrangements January . Hope they get sorted soon.

Taken my second lft today and can't stop sneezing so that's a fun start to Tues. Thankfully it's negative!

Hello all. Hope everyone is ok. January

Snow day!!!
Teach on teams. Bastards.

@MrsHamlet

Snow day!!! Teach on teams. Bastards.

Same

Ooh snow! Just a bit overcast and drizzly here. Have some time allocated today to catch up with course stuff (which I've not been getting thus far) and also to record a lesson. Any tips? I've brushed my hair and I'll slap a bit of make up on so I don't scare the children.

Still feeling incredibly anxious. Though not much luck with getting a drs appt. Routines are well into April now. On the plus side, my mum is being jabbed today. Can't wait to be able to see her again.

Checking into the broom cupboard, hope everyone is well?
Day off today but need to record an A-level lesson that couldn't be timetabled. It's so hard when the house is full of people, I normally do it on a Tuesday afternoon when the dc are in school.
Just counting the days until half term now. So tired.

Wfh day today. Thankfully. I'm waiting on a call back from dds school to discuss her online learning and their lack of communication between their pastoral info and the teachers.

My own ht told me I could bring her in to my school when I'm in and she did yesterday. She sat at my desk in my empty classroom next door to the (larger) room that the kw kids are taught in. I taught. She logged on and did her lessons and tried to catch up on her work too.

I think I may be halfway to zombie today. Childminder got ill in the middle of the day yesterday so had to collect toddler, was doing kw/v in school all morning so haven't caught up with emails /satchel one /ever changing policies, DH feeling poorly so did evening routine alone, toddler had a bad night (ended up in spare bed with her) and today is my day off, so no child free time to catch up! Eek! And yawn. (simultaneously shrieking and falling asleep)

Day off day which means ds expecting me to psychically know what a teacher asked him to do when I wasn't in the room.

He doesn't bloody ask the teacher when she's live and won't email her. I was vaguely listening at some points and feeling her pain in the long silences where the kids questions or answers should be. She's lovely and they still won't talk to her. It's like a code of silence or something amongst the kids. I made ds answer a question.

Live maths next then only a couple of bridge lessons to do as it's a normal pe day as opposed to pe btec so one lesson less.