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

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Good luck @Piggywaspushed!

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.

That is brilliant news @SquashedFlyBiscuits - thank goodness!

I had a USB crash on me last academic year in January. I'd backed it up to Dropbox manually, on quite a regular basis, but had not done it for a fortnight and done LOADS of downloading of resources in that time. It was only 2 weeks but I lost so much work 😭.

Now I use OneDrive and wish I'd been a bit more savvy much much earlier!

And good luck with your interview, Piggy!

Good luck Piggy!!

Good luck piggy maybe don’t be like Bob during the interview

Hope it goes well

Well at least we only have to put up with Gav occasionally wheeling out the photo with the whip, see what our colleagues across the pond are subjected to:

www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-jr-video-teachers-backdrop-of-guns-2021-2?r=US&IR=T

Vaccine anecdote. In room supervising KW children today alongside: early 30s TA with no underlying conditions - vaccinated. Early 60s TA in CV group - unvaccinated.

My friend in Norway just messaged me- her kids have all been sent home again after full opening. They managed 2 weeks. With a compliant population. In the famed Norway of No Great Covid and Open Schools.

@RandomGrammarPun i've got one too- neighbour who delivers prescriptions from his car to doorsteps. Got his vaccine . Yay for him and he's being kind but he's literally picking up bags and putting them down. Today I had a child sobbing on me and I HAD to touch them and sort out a bloody face and comfort them. Thanks, netball, I always knew you were shit. And i've been in a room all day, even lunch, with 25 kids. Had to mark all the books. 35 in a few weeks.

It's so hard not to be angry all the time.

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I didn't think Norway had much Covid. Although I haven't looked recently.

Crap, isn't it?

We've got bubbles of 45 for KWV provision. Actually gonna be safer on 8th March. Smaller groups plus masks - yay!

WTF Random. All at the same time?

Yeah.

Tbf, the computer suite they're in is bigger than a normal classroom.

We've got year 7/8 and year 9/10/11. Nearly a hundred in total.

Which reminds me, we haven't discussed how our "all return on 8th March" means basically two days fire break between kids being in one bubble and then a different one (their normal class). Primaries and secondaries have been doing mixed year groups for KWV... Or no firebreak if we're testing 8th/9th then back to normal 10th (as an example). Kids will be going from KWV bubble to regular class overnight...

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That's ridiculous. Reading the comments made me feel slightly better

Yep, I was just trying to think through how i'll go from having 25 year 5 and 6 in my bubble to 35 year 6 again. No firebreak. The shite LFT and windows will protect me.

Good point re no firebreak.

“Secondary schools in England will be asked to deliver face-to-face summer schools as part of efforts to catch pupils up with lessons lost to Covid”

They can ask me, then answer will be no though.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-56175893

Good luck @Piggywaspushed!

Go get ‘em, piggy! 🏆

Just reading that motherrunner

This in particular:
secondary schools will have £22,000 to support children further

In my school, that’s about £12 per child.

Fucking outrageous.

Good luck piggy

Summer school is a no from me

@RandomGrammarPun

Yeah.

Tbf, the computer suite they're in is bigger than a normal classroom.

We've got year 7/8 and year 9/10/11. Nearly a hundred in total.

Which reminds me, we haven't discussed how our "all return on 8th March" means basically two days fire break between kids being in one bubble and then a different one (their normal class). Primaries and secondaries have been doing mixed year groups for KWV... Or no firebreak if we're testing 8th/9th then back to normal 10th (as an example). Kids will be going from KWV bubble to regular class overnight...

This is a really good point and one I think a lot of people haven't considered. We have y10/11 as one bubble at the moment too. We also have an SEN bubble which crosses all year groups, but most of those students will be in class at least some of the time from the 8th.

It sort of defeats the point of having bubbles really doesn't it?

I'm sort of assuming if we spend Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday testing, which seems to be the plan atm, there will be no key worker provision on those days and so there will be more like 4/5 day break with tests.

I've been in school throughout but with 2-3 children daily in order to 'keep the bubble intact,' so ours won't cross over. Tbh I selfishly wish they had though - it's been awful. No TA, 1 of the kids being 1-1 , one of the others bloody should be..... then trying to to sort the home learning, do live lessons, respond to work and plan. I slept an awful lot of the half term.

Even then, I'd rather do an extra 3 weeks of that than go back with everyone back on the 8th!

@ChloeDecker

Just reading that motherrunner

This in particular:
secondary schools will have £22,000 to support children further

In my school, that’s about £12 per child.

Fucking outrageous.

In mine it's about £23 a child, not including sixth form. I guess it might buy them a few revision guides each?

Or pay for one supply teacher for the year...

Good luck piggy!

Labour also calculated the new package was worth less than the £840m spent on the Eat Out to Help Out scheme last year, and would be worth 43p per pupil per day, if the money was split across a normal school year.

6000 for primary is a TA for 6 months.

Or is that for summer school? I could see schools running some summer clubs with outside providers. Trying to estimate, if it was 100 quid a day (roughly a supply teacher?) that could pay for 2 people a week for the summer. It's not really going to stretch even if it's 50 quid and 4 people.