The Forty Ninth Republic - Announcement Week - Roadmap and Exams - Be more Bob

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@piggywaspushed

I have unresolved issues with some stuff and cannot do LFTs in public places. I really can't. Going to cry again now.

I would feel just the same as you-don’t do it, say you’ll do them at home when that starts. Perfectly reasonable x

Ha lol Nobel, I'm often a wimp and it's a cursory tickle for the ten seconds. I'm mostly ok with tonsils. 🧠

Ah sorry piggy.I imagine there will be many people who feel unable to do this.

We were told it wasn't mandatory which helped a lot.

I'm not going anywhere near my throat with them anymore, just nose.

A couple of times I've forgotten I'm trying not to eat 30 mins before and so done two nostrils rather than the tonsils. Always seems to be tricky to fit it in on the Wednesday eve. Thurs morning; no chance!

I haven’t done. LFT but have been tested once for symptoms. I could stomach the tonsils (although I haven’t got any 😂 ) but hated the nose.

Don’t do it, piggy. No one can force us to undertake them in public or private. I wouldn’t have done mine at school and would have opted out.

(My nose tickle has always been more than I've managed with screaming offended toddler who's never had an inconclusive I need to add!)

Primary here, we've been doing them at home too. I really don't think I could do it at school either! I did a community LFT before our school got the kits and I found it really difficult to do it in front of people. If we were doing them in school I would probably opt out. I also need a mirror to do mine properly.

We haven't gotten very much work submitted online at all compared to before half term. It's kind of annoying. I am glad that this is my last week of home learning though. I'm with KW kids next week although all staff are to be in next week anyway.

I've had to do loads of the buggers thanks to nursery and the toddler and any sniffle in me starting to go to my chest.

( Which has been very good this year whenever there has been a cold and I do wonder if it's vit d?)

Just say no piggy! I'm going to. Haven't done one yet and haven't given consent for ds. Definitely be more Bob. If pressed say for private reasons I'm not comfortable doing it at school but happy to do it at home. Fuck pressure - it's not obligatory. You say no like you mean it and they leave you alone.

I've had a parent email saying kids will be coming back from the 8th and they'll let us know about what year groups when and how nearer to the time. Staff have been emailed a copy of the letter to parents so we know what's been said and we know no more than them.

I don't think our head would rush it and be hasty. If it was me I'd think about eg. Test year 11 Monday morning, have staffed classrooms to send them to afterwards with revision tasks set by subject teachers to do independently for the rest of the day (basically like kw provision but with revision tasks). Back in on Tuesday being taught. Same for year 13 on Tuesday with testing/supervised revision and starting lessons on Wednesday. Year 12 testing Weds start proper Thurs, Year 10 testing Thurs, proper Friday. Then whichever ks3 year group they want to prioritise on the Friday. Thursday afternoon you retest year 11, Friday afternoon year 13 and onwards.

It's going to be two weeks with a layout like that before everyone is in and has had 2 tests then third tests in class batches rather than whole year groups.

I don't see it being possible or sane to do everyone in a week.

@motherrunner

Ours is probably the same. Nobody has mentioned work exp though but they all think prom is going ahead.

I won't be doing LFTs either.

Am I wrong in thinking I've read somewhere that your first LFT has to be supervised before you can then do them at home? Think that's what's in the MHRA license and how the NHS have done it?

I could be wrong though!

Primary staff didn't did they? As some of them haven't been in school necessarily?

I don't blame anyone who refuses to do them school. Gagging loudly or vomiting into your mouth is not fun to do in front your colleagues. Several of my colleagues are not doing them.

We just got given the box and told instructions were inside and to do at home (primary).

I have a box of PCR tests at home for the trial. I'm not sure I'd want to do one without having been talked through it first.

You don’t get talked through it at the drive through testing centre, just a leaflet.

I presume it's the same technique as the pcr swabbing I've done for home testing. I've never been to a testing centre as I don't drive.

Agree with needing a mirror. Do they give you big mirrors and good light in school?

@noblegiraffe

You don’t get talked through it at the drive through testing centre, just a leaflet.

But I'm a kinaesthetic learner 🤣

We were sent a link to a video, which like a good student I watched before the test
But the second time I went to a drive through they did the test for me, and it was a lot more, shall we say, thorough

Do they give you big mirrors and good light in school?

We have those stick on mirrors. They were the same ones in the public testing centre I went to last term.

They’re okay but don’t stay very ‘mirror-y’

Hang on, what happened to the squaddies?

Primary staff were just told to shove it up whatever orifice and just get into work, is my experience.

My files are found! That was a long 22hours! Phew! Thanks for your support! Now I will do a serious tidy of them. Scared the ICT man. He's only young and I may have been a bit teacher voice and then some.

LFT have finally given me a use for the pretty make up mirror I was given years ago that had been gathering dust. We just got given a box and a leaflet and told to get on with it. I had been worried that I might not have been doing them thoroughly enough, but then I self swabbed at a PCR drive through as part of a surge testing thing and that one came back ok.

No squaddies but there is always Chris!

We were told today we can take our classes out for a ten minute afternoon break. This has previously been forbidden for year 5 and 6. This is my extra mitigation.