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

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Omg at the vaccines minister! Just wow.

Struggling with irritation at a lazy colleague today and a hod who doesn't actually tackle it. She is full time and paid for full time yet seems to do nothing asked of her and gets away with it.

I'm still trying to think we don't know anything yet. Clutching at straws probably but newspaper speculation is not the same as an announcement despite the reality of the last year 🙏

Piggy I promised I'd let you know - I have my vaccine appt this Friday and DH has to phone on Weds to book his...not sure why they're arse about tit🤷🏻‍♀️🤔🤦🏻‍♀️ he really should be before me.

That's good news pussycat! Our area is painfully slow...

6 out of 30 year 7 kids have engaged with today's lesson. It will be my responsibility to somehow magic the learning they've missed into their heads will it?

So much work for nothing

OMG at that ONS thing! Bit effing late!

I got the impression this morning that Zahawi was lying to script and was flat footed when Louise Minchin was helpfully over 50...

From Teacher Toolkit

I can well imagine that opening will be announced with "more details to follow" and we get those details the week before, and then are suddenly expected to do 900 lateral flow tests in a day, or whatever.

Did LFT with our KW kids this morning. And 2 bubbles now closed due to positive results. 9 staff isolating. Going well so far !

@SansaSnark

I can well imagine that opening will be announced with "more details to follow" and we get those details the week before, and then are suddenly expected to do 900 lateral flow tests in a day, or whatever.

If secondary schools have got to somehow test all pupils this week or next (twice?) -that’s going to be a pain in the neck not only for whoever is doing the testing (presume it won’t be you teachers as they’d have to bring you off timetable? Would it be SLT or admin or TAs or Kev’s mum??) but how are all the kids going to get to school for their appointment? If they’ve got to get public transport, it rather defeats the object?! Most of my DC’s school get the train in! They then will miss lessons that they are supposed to be in as well.

Surely it's not much point testing students this week, apart from those actually in

Peston is reporting masks in classrooms for secondary.

Those are quite small confidence lines (I forget exactly what they are called) for education staff too so pretty solid data....

Might use this with my sociology class this pm to prove why the original data should not have been touted as reliable

Might plop it on the data thread....

Thought you all might appreciate this phrasing

I am still raging at the policy by leak.

If I “leaked” a students CAGs before I was supposed to I’d presumably be disciplined? But Bojo can leak an entire policy, affecting millions of people and 🤷🏻‍♀️

We are so far ahead of the other jobs we are always told we should be grateful for/ grateful we aren't!!!

Yikes mumneedswine that’s not what you need! Stay safe!

“Murder yeti” 😂😊

*student’s

Has anyone got a link to the ONS data? I can't save the screenshot...

‘Murder yeti’ is superb!

I do hope the unions get in that ONS data. Hospital staff were a way down-is that due to vaccination? PPE? Only dealing with 1 masked patient at a time?

I’ve got a hospital appointment next month and have been given strict written instructions on what I must do...coming alone, mask wearing, coming in a certain door, temperature checks, ringing doorbell first etc etc-nothing quite like the chaos of a school...!

There has been gaslighting and belittling of what schools are really like from the beginning here-our media is a total disgrace and has such a lot to answer for.

@piggywaspushed

Has anyone got a link to the ONS data? I can't save the screenshot...

www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/articles/coronaviruscovid19infectionsinthecommunityinengland/characteristicsofpeopletestingpositiveforcovid19inengland22february2021#likelihood-of-testing-positive-for-covid-19-by-occupation

Ooh I'm joining this thread, I didn't know you all hid in here! I'm going to be 29 weeks pregnant on 8th March and my union has said they'll support me in a request to wfh, but I can already tell my school will tell me it's safe to be in when it's not! Clashing with family aswell because they're all desperate for their kids to go back so apparently I'm selfish in not wanting the same for them! Definitely looking for a new job soon, this year has completely worn me down.

Fucking hell - that data! It's almost as if we knew what we were talking about!!

Lowest confidence interval is higher than every other one on the list apart from caring professions. No shit Sherlock, we practically work in a caring profession. Scream.

Why are secretarial/managerial so high I wonder??

But that data, plus masks if Peston's right, are good news in a sense.