The Forty Seventh Republic! Happy Valentines and get some half term rest

[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

ungendering the English language

Like 'fanperson'?

English is not fun (sorry English types!). I find it incredibly hard because I've told myself i can't do it . I like maths. You know where you are with that.

Am going to grab a little nap to get rid of my headache and then try again with the reflection.

Exactly like that noble. I'm hoping did some good bloopers. This class is very bad at proof reading.

@MrsHamlet

Exactly like that noble. I'm hoping did some good bloopers. This class is very bad at proof reading.

pot....meet kettle.

🤦🏼‍♀️ As I watched it post I thought "bollocks". Most unladylike!

If the Warwick guy is not impressed, why did he fo a press release?

It always happens! Criticise someone's grammer or spelling and you're bound to have fucked up yourself.

Give 20 minutes to the small things (reflection essay, children evidence); then 1 hour to doing some work on the big essay, then do the planning.

The essay is going to be a big chunk of time - you need to clear everything else.

By setting time limits on the short things (which only have to be good-enough) you limit the pain and force yourself to hand in 'good enough' work.

It also means you'll be in that mind-set with the planning.

Fact is, you have a week. You could easily get really perfectionist about these things but you don't have time.

Good luck! Half terms are particularly gruesome in PGCEs because you suddenly have all the theoretical stuff raining down in you just when you could really use a rest. 💐

@noblegiraffe

It always happens! Criticise someone's grammer or spelling and you're bound to have fucked up yourself.

Actually, I have that wrong. 3,500 words means it's not the big one, I'm guessing. So, on the plus side, that won't take all week. (Phew!)

It’s actually been something approaching sunny today, and nice enough to go out without wrapping up like a mummy. Walked to the library, stopped at the park on the way back - so nice to sit with the sun in my face, reading my library book about beavers.

I’ve even hung washing out on the line. It’s only the kids’ bedsheets (all that polyester character shite that at least dries quickly if nothing else) but it felt so good to be doing that. Optimistic. And it’ll smell good. Now I’m just lounging on the settee reading while the kids are out in the garden - DP is setting up a gardening/lawn mowing/hedge trimming business so is practising on our garden first!

Hello all,
Planning lessons today, but progress very slow. All dc are doing a little work every day, so dd has done some trigonometry, ds1 has done some English homework and ds2 I bought a handwriting book for. He did the first two pages, complaining how easy it was, then we realised I've bought a book for 2 years below where he is. He's appalled.... and even more appalled that the correct book will be arriving tomorrow!

I'm avoiding school work currently and patting myself on the back for small achievements eg. I hoovered and actually moved the sofa to hoover underneath and found a favourite earring I thought I'd lost. I put the Tesco delivery away. I took the dog for a walk. I tidied my dumping ground of a bedside drawer.

Starting/stopping/switching meds often has a short patch where my brain is useless like literally forgetting what I was thinking mid thought levels of useless and I think I'm past the peak of that and my brain is reordering itself. The weekend was my sleep all over the shop stage and yesterday my emotional wreck and weeping despair stage and today I feel tentatively past the worst.

For work I have planners and diaries filled with notes and lists and yet I'm balking at the thought of writing a list for home stuff. Maybe because I'm worried it will end up being ten foot long or maybe because work just uses up all of my organisation energy Though I'm organised with finances and bills etc too.

My house is a tip therefore. Poor as I am I could actually justify paying a cleaner for a couple of hours a week but I've have to tidy up enough to actually be able to clean.

Sorry random stream of consciousness.

Re housework - don't you hate the way that no possibility of anyone actually coming round, means no motivation to do the dreaded cleaning?

Hope it's not just me!

I loathe housework. I had a cleaner but she was useless. Now I have a not to be deviated from routine which means I don't have to think about it. I still hate it.

I should clarify I only hoovered one room because finding the earring sent me trying to find the other one which led to me sorting out a drawer which led to putting recycling out which led to oh it's quite nice out here let's take the dog for a walk. So now the vacuum is in the middle of the lounge, the sofa out of place and I'm knackered lying on my bed mn'ing.

That adhd suspicion keeps tapping on my shoulder going, look! see?

I am going to invest in a cleaner too, @TheHoneyBadger especially if I go full time. It's definitely worth it if it makes you feel calmer and happier. Hope the new meds help you soon.

I'm feeling better today. Start the ADs nearly a week ago and going up to my proper dose tomorrow. Side effects have been bearable (if weird) so far.

Am avoiding work and thoughts of it. Have removed teams and email from my phone for the week, and BBC news. Next Monday's lessons are planned, that'll do for now. I have some marking but it's not hard or lengthy.

I've painted the front fences yesterday....done washing and cleaning. Taking the kids for another long walk this afternoon (they both slept well after 3 miles along the lanes!) and then am going to tempt the indigestion back again with lots and lots of pancakes.

I've moved from my desk to the comfy chair in my study and I'm going to have a nap, I think :)

@TheHoneyBadger

I should clarify I only hoovered one room because finding the earring sent me trying to find the other one which led to me sorting out a drawer which led to putting recycling out which led to oh it's quite nice out here let's take the dog for a walk. So now the vacuum is in the middle of the lounge, the sofa out of place and I'm knackered lying on my bed mn'ing.

That adhd suspicion keeps tapping on my shoulder going, look! see?

Well I don't know about ADHD but I certainly succumb to similar chains of activity all the time!

Nothing ever gets finished here jan.

Enjoy your nap MrsH. We'll wake you up when dinner's ready.

Three hours. THREE HOURS reinstalling Office on DS's laptop....

@TheHoneyBadger

I should clarify I only hoovered one room because finding the earring sent me trying to find the other one which led to me sorting out a drawer which led to putting recycling out which led to oh it's quite nice out here let's take the dog for a walk. So now the vacuum is in the middle of the lounge, the sofa out of place and I'm knackered lying on my bed mn'ing.

That adhd suspicion keeps tapping on my shoulder going, look! see?

I have adhd .. your chain of events sounds like something I would do.

Also, I've just heard the nurses outside talking and the conversation went delightfully like this

"I've got a chair, do you have a chair ?"
"No, hold on"
"Ok, everyone has a chair now, that's good...."
"Do they have chairs down there?"

Seems its not just teachers who have chair probs.

Ha ha Ophelia.

New 1.7m added to shielding list and bumped up vaccine list - ethnicity, depreciation, obesity

www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56086965

Instead of sending in chocolates after a hospital stay we should send in a chair from IKEA