The Forty Sixth Republic - online learning has killed the 'snow day'

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Yep if they’re giving two weeks notice they’ll need to say on Feb 22nd what’s happening on 8th March.

@borntobequiet

Also just got annoyed by Kevan Collins talking about the importance of competitive sport.

I heard something on I think Inside Health saying that though boys’ competitive sport had suffered, girls were taking up exercise they actually enjoyed and consequently doing more of it. I’ll try to find it.

I heard that too and was going to make that comment.

It was found that girls were taking up dancing and the like in their own rooms on their own.
I hate this idea that competitive sport is the only viable form of exercise.

'It was found that girls were taking up dancing and the like in their own rooms on their own.
This is certainly not true of my dd and her friends. I am worried she will forget how to walk 100 metres.🙈

@noblegiraffe

Yep if they’re giving two weeks notice they’ll need to say on Feb 22nd what’s happening on 8th March.

My school has taken it as gospel y11 will be back on the 8th.

I think the exercise one is this one

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000rlpj

About two thirds of the way in IIRC (it’s taking ages to load for me right now).

My dd fears she will have forgotten how to ice skate. Even when rinks were, briefly, allowed to open ours didn't as it has been ripped up to make the Rainbow hospital. Mum had her jab yesterday right in the middle of where the rink once stood.

Kevan was the CEO of the EEF so he’ll be aware that summer schools and extending the school day aren’t worth it according to EEF analysis. (Geoff Barton on twitter pointing this out).

The 22nd is when Boris has said he'll be publishing the whole road map (although that phrase seems to have disappeared in the last week?), which will include school reopening.

I HATED school PE - well, tbh, any form of movement as a child! Now I love walking, and will try quite a few things. Still not a team person though.

I gave up PE in year 9 when I twigged that doing dance meant you got to stay inside.

Thanks noble. I'm tentatively putting my money on not going back on the 8th. Unless it's very limited year groups but I'm hoping even that will get pushed back to after Easter.

I want numbers solidify down and staying there before we open the floodgates again. I think in some ways vaccination is still a bit of a red herring. Even if the elderly and vulnerable were genuinely protected from catching or transmitting the virus allowing it time and freedom to mutate to better attack the rest of us and to potentially become vaccine resistant seems unwise

School PE was awful, even though I was on lots of the teams. I fricken hated it - used to skive and smoke in the toilets. It was the 80s. I once faked a sprained ankle so I didn't have to do the long run (1800m?) and came 95th out of 96 in the cross country.

We once swapped and made the boys do Jane Fonda aerobics video while we did cricket. They couldn't hack it at all.

@noblegiraffe

Kevan was the CEO of the EEF so he’ll be aware that summer schools and extending the school day aren’t worth it according to EEF analysis. (Geoff Barton on twitter pointing this out).

See, he's gonna be good, just you watch ....

Kevan was the CEO of the EEF so he’ll be aware that summer schools and extending the school day aren’t worth it according to EEF analysis

Oh for gods sakes. You know what would help, the kids actually turning up and engaging in my lessons.

If they want to get taught, all there lessons are class notebook including a video of me teaching the content.

Re school return - we've put a 'screen free' day in our diaries for the 5th March so we can go into school for PPA.

My gut feeling is that primaries are going back on 8th with no additional measures for safety.

I'm concerned that even with ONE DOSE of a two dose vaccine in old people's arms, we are still community vectors. Be interesting to see what unions suggest for the over 50s who haven't had the vaccine dose at all by that point, or CEV staff who have had half the vaccine, but are expected in school. Considering they've been told to continue shielding until they've had both.

@RigaBalsam

'It was found that girls were taking up dancing and the like in their own rooms on their own. This is certainly not true of my dd and her friends. I am worried she will forget how to walk 100 metres.🙈

Mine too. She's become permanently attached to her bed 🛌 or the sofa. And her phone send to be surgically attached to her hand as well.

My nieces are doing yoga and exercise classes from YouTube, off their own bat, and loving it because there's nobody else there making comments about how well it badly they are moving. They're just enjoying themselves.

Robert Jenrick 'misspoke' this morning on BBC. It was a rapidly retracted enormous balls up! Hilarious!

I went to a v sporty schol so viewed myself as fat and carp at sport (especially as DSis and DF are v sporty) but , actually, I was OK at hockey and a few other things. Cross country was horrific though and I sued to feign injury.

Competition can be so bad for MH when mismanaged. A large part of the issue for adolescent me was the late 1980s upsurge of tight fitting athletic short which were basically big knickers. The boys used to sit leering n the stand when we did the 100metres.

I have only ever met a couple of empathetic PE teachers too : mostly, the males do banter and the woman do no nonsense hardness. And then often end up in pastoral roles!!

As it stands I think primary back on 8th and exam years in secondary.

But they might have to change this depending on the data coming from all this new variant surge testing.

Definitely KS1 on 8th.

What did Jenrick say?

I think the data coming from the surge testing would have to be horrific before they chose to "U turn" on the 8 March announcement though. Sadly. Even though Boris did only say it was 8 Mar at the earliest. There's such pressure, both directly from parents etc but also indirectly because nothing else is going to be allowed to open until schools open.

As it stands I think primary back on 8th and exam years in secondary

I think you will be right noble maybe Year 10 too? I really feel for them.

I don’t think the surge testing will affect primary but it might affect secondary. They’re going for the ‘young kids don’t spread’ line.

You're probably right noble.... although how can they square that with the 4 Jan events?

I so don't see the point in rushing year 11 and 13 back in when we know nothing of what their assessments will entail yet. A lot of people keep saying they have pretty much finished with year 11. I think we are getting very mixed messages form HMGov on the 'exam years'.

I think years 10 and 12 are more critical.

Jenrick basically implied no older students back before Easter.