The Forty-fifth Republic - Is there anyone there? Surely time for half term

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What are they providing salty? And what are they not providing? What have you tried so far? I'm assuming you've spoken to someone at their school, but what was their response? I don't want to give advice about stuff you've already done.

We have 180 students in by the way. I'm.more than happy to do my bit.

On the other hand, DS was in a class of 3 today, with a teacher and a TA. How is that sensible use of resources? He has had Twinkl English work aimed at Reception and maths aimed at Year 6. He's Year 3.

It's at governor level, but we're still waiting for a final response.

That really does sound rubbish, and definitely not an efficient use of resources to have 2 adults with only 3 children. I don't suppose there's much you can do right now if it's already at governors level, which must be incredibly frustrating for you. I'm really sorry not to have any good advice. You are absolutely correct that all schools need to be providing a decent level of remote learning, and the absolute basics is to get the age group right when setting work!!

So is he doing the same work that’s set for homeschooling with the teacher and TA (at which point they’d be wtf?) or are they teaching him different stuff? Who is setting the crap work?

Sounds very odd.

Thanks Noble am getting up early to experiment
MrsHP I'm on teams mostly, I know how OneNote works due to dc's school but I don't fancy teaching all my classes how to use it as every one uses teams. It's been hard enough getting them to successfully open a PowerPoint!!
I'm just thinking about all the free time I'll have if my marking becomes faster I can spend more time on mumsnet.

@noblegiraffe

So is he doing the same work that’s set for homeschooling with the teacher and TA (at which point they’d be wtf?) or are they teaching him different stuff? Who is setting the crap work?

Sounds very odd.

He will be doing the same work (the teacher in the class set the work). This is the first week he's going for three days; prior to that it's been just once. He's had less than 10 mins recorded footage and that's it, teaching wise.

We went from adding fractions to finding one with of £177 within two days.

*one sixth of £177

My guess would be we are closer to 200 than 100 in my primary. In the summer we had less than 20 - I supervised 5 one day.

Head has promised to cap numbers, we will see if that happens.

I want them to stagger reopening to being back with younger years first - little kids can not learn well remotely. I don’t want to wait until it’s safe to bring back all year groups. With the youngest, we have a situation where the level of education is dependent on their parents available time and effort to teach them (because even in live lessons a 4 year old struggles hugely to work!).

Frustrating! I’ve been awake since four trying to figure out how to ‘catch-up’ my class when we eventually return and I’m still drawing blank!

@SaltyAF
I’d sack off remote schools work from his school if it’s that poor quality and just choose a maths and English topic from oak for his year group. Ask him how he’d like to spend the rest of his day and negotiate to find a timetable you are both happy with.

Morning all! Another parents evening done (I have one more next week too, sheesh!) and just having a cuppa in the calm before live lessons and home learning!
I’m also currently having a parent who I feel is now bordering on harassment towards me (one who blames me for not being able to get a parents evening appointment with me and now is upset with my information that their child is missed lots of homework since September and accusing me of not sending her information, even though I have emails from her Year 9 child, who at least is apologising to me for not doing work even though the parent is still insisting I am lying!, talking about my sent information his parent has shown me) I’ve counted 11 emails this parent has sent me since last Friday...
I’ve now passed it on for someone else better paid to deal with it

I’ve enjoyed catching up with you all this morning - sorry for being AWOL but just v busy.
Sending to everyone to help you all get through today!

Last year we have 8 daily in the hub, 15 max.
I've got 15 just from y6 today and every yeargroup is the same.

One school not far from here (secondary, about the sand size as us) claims to have 200+ in a day!! We have between 30 and 40.

We've got between 20-25% of our secondary in .

@Mistressiggi is it primary or secondary sorry I can’t remember! Class notebook is part of teams and it’s almost identical to word.

I can send you some info/instructions for using it for students and teachers if you want to have a look?

I used a cloze in my training - copied it from word and then shared the page to student notebooks and they copied just have to type in the words. We are secondary though!

@MrsHerculePoirot sounds a decent breeder. Very similar to how we found our pup. Happy to chat via PM to avoid turning this into a Doghouse thread

I was woken by a text with DS and my test results - we both had a test yesterday. DS is positive. He has a textbook dry persistent cough.

I was elated at first as I saw two negative results on the texts (they woke me up so I was a bit fuzzy). Then I realised that one of them was my negative test I had to do before school started in January. I feel overwhelmed.

And the pavement outside our house is being dug up and replaced today and there is no escape from the noise and smell.

@DriveInSaturday wishing your DS and you well x

Do you have symptoms, Drive? I hope your DS recovers well.

I think my secondary has about 30 in at KS3 not sure about KS4/5.

@DriveInSaturday sorry to hear. Hope you have a speedy recovery!

I hope ds gets well soon drivein and you remain well