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

[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-

-ABBA - anti bashers and baiting association
-SWAB - school workers against bashers
-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

Thank goodness there are still Mums who tell you off for reading when you shouldn’t- nothing like making it seem transgressive for encouraging it

Exactly! Double whammy of annoying his Mum and pleasing his teacher - and getting hooked into a book he loved!

I see the mail is kite flying about changing the summer hols again adding a week onto half term amd Christmas.

Hope everyone is well.

I regularly binge read all The Babysitter’s Club books, as many Point Horror and Point Romance that I could get by hands on and cried ready many many times to lots of Michael Morpurgo books and don’t get me started on Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry

If you read MM as a child, you are very young (in comparison to us old gimmers!)

@RandomGrammarPun

If you read MM as a child, you are very young (in comparison to us old gimmers!)

Oh absolutely! I’m only 40. They translate so well to any decade in my opinion. Time flies eh!?

Aha, well I'm not masses older than you, then, but MM wasn't around when I was a kid. I've read plenty of his as an adult, though. Listen to the Moon is my favourite, I think (about the Lusitania).

@RandomGrammarPun

Aha, well I'm not masses older than you, then, but MM wasn't around when I was a kid. I've read plenty of his as an adult, though. Listen to the Moon is my favourite, I think (about the Lusitania).

Not read that one-thanks for the tip. Will look it up for half term. I loved a lot of books with animals in them when I was younger. Some of his 80s (I think 80s) books were my favourites. I wanted to call one of our cats Montezuma at one point!

I was a voracious reader, having little else to do. I’d happily follow Dickens with Biggles, or Jennings (I read all my brothers’ books faster than they did).
I loved A Traveller in Time by Alison Uttley, anything by Elizabeth Goudge (didn’t realise they weren’t children’s stories), The Weirdstone of Brisangamen (fell apart with repeated reading), The Hobbit (and later LOTR, my friend and I used to write each other notes in elvenscript in class) and random grown up novels acquired in some way by my parents (who normally didn’t read fiction). One of the latter was an absolutely vile (in retrospect) novel set during the British mandate in Palestine. It was full of the most appalling nastiness and casual racism, though was considered pretty normal then and had been reviewed favourably.

@JanFebAnyMonth have replied 😊

Someone mentioned horse books in Montana. Were they the Saddle Club?

I used to love Babysitter's Club, American Girl books, Dear America (which are here as My Story)....can you tell where I grew up?

@RuleWithAWoodenFoot Those books were my preteen and teenage reads. I used to borrow at least ten books a week from the library.

Luckily, my children love reading too.

Gah... I've spend half the day reading about Milton and the other half smushing aubergines whilst you've been collating a list of books I need to reread.
My aunt worked at a Swiss boarding school and there really were princesses! I'd love to complete my chalet school collection - I loved them.

The mobile library's fortnightly visit to my village (we were car-less) was the highlight of my world when young!

Time to get a July holiday booked up.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9233727/Ministers-consider-changing-school-year-extend-summer-term.html

Aargh Broom Cupboard moment soon....

We're a very chatty lot... It's way more friendly in here than any school staffroom I've been in recently.

Wish I'd read more..... unless it had Fanny Waterman on the front of it and a piano keyboard it would have passed me by.

We keep filling them up sooooo quickly...

Have we seen this? What's he like?

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.tes.com/news/sir-kevan-collins-who-new-covid-catch-tsar%3famp

I don't think they were the Saddle Club series. They were racier than those (in the sack, not the saddle, haha).

We're a very chatty lot... It's way more friendly in here than any school staffroom I've been in recently

For one thing people actually come in here. Staff room is the quietest room in my school.

I’ve just spend two hours writing a stupidly hard lesson. When I say writing it I mean watching Oak Academy and nicking everyone I could. It’s not my specialism so I struggled a bit.

I've almost forgotten what our school staff room looks like - thanks to the horror of covering every single break duty since September! This one is much friendlier though.

We don't actually have one. It was annexed a few years ago to make an office, and then again. Depts have offices but they're all far too small to be useful.