THE FIFIETH REPUBLIC!

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My kids spent years falling into the river, first when paddling and playing and later out of boats. They spent much of their childhoods and teenage years thoroughly soaked. Weil’s disease isn’t nice, but it’s rare. I think there are about 50 cases a year in this country. I wouldn’t worry too much about it.

@HercwasanEnemyofEducation

Jan I agree to some extent. But the face to face safeguarding training we get from the LA is not good. It's someone reading a ppt which could be done online. It covers the legal side of safeguarding fine. The emotional and sensitive side, no one really tells us how to deal with that. This would be great training.

Yup I should have specified quality face to face training.

Whole school CPD is shit for maths teachers. I bloody hate wasting my time listening to stuff about writing frames or improving writing through written feedback

Hey I once sat through whole hour based on doing sums on mini whiteboards. They made me actually DO sums.

I have to split the maths dept up, noble - means the scowls are spread round the room rather than coming at me from one table!!
I hate hate hate it. The well-being inset is the worst though. Why do I have to stay til 5.30 to improve my well-being with macrame? Just let me go home and get pissed.

Why do I have to stay til 5.30 to improve my well-being with macrame? Just let me go home and get pissed.

I’ll drink to that

youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-y-8wn6dL1UaVoSwAvE8QjhDeunacUcK ResearchEd Home playlist here with some interesting presenters. I watched a few over the last lockdown and found them good cpd.

Love Craigs podcast too. I really enjoyed the one with Peps McCrea, I think it was the accent.

I once sat through whole hour based on doing sums on mini whiteboards. They made me actually DO sums.

Fairly sure we had this CPD too, as a bloody twilight as well. Complete waste of an evening.

Nobody cares about staff well-being at our place, but at least that means I dodge the pointless macrame.

Hahaha

At least in primary EVERY subject is relevant.....even macrame is probably on some D&T curriculum somewhere....

I had to Google macrame. Someone made you do that at work

I used To get very defensive when you lot slagged off CPD when I delivered amazing quality stuff.

Now they have put Baby firmly in the corner, I think it is all shit.

I tried to kill macrame night but apparently it's what we all needed. Covid killed version 2 but we now have a "well-being agenda" so I fear it's going to come back. I don't like most of my colleagues... give me rope to knot and bad things may well happen.

[Muses ....one of my more disruptive pupils would almost certainly love macrame....and could build a hammock for their much-abused fiddle toy....]

[But might then choose to strange their neighbour. Back to the drawing board..]

*strangle

I can beat macrame.

A recent ish remote whole trust inset. The well being session was forty five minutes of the those director telling us to breath.

45 minutes

Breathe.

Ffs.

I had to Google macrame. Someone made you do that at work
It was one of the options. Wine tasting was not. Sadly.

I used To get very defensive when you lot slagged off CPD when I delivered amazing quality stuff.
I have to mock myself otherwise I want to curl up and die. The thing that really gives me the rage is when SLT don't bother to turn up. Tossers.

It’s all the obviously nonsense stuff that I’ve had to sit through - brain gym, learning styles, right brain-left brain, growth mindset - when I could have been doing something useful. Tom Bennett telling me to be consistent about discipline in class as a low point (and why I’ve not a huge amount of time for him, sorry noble). Then having stuff that would be really useful turned down mostly because I want to teach not manage people. Grrr!

We had physio treatment where we sat in uncomfortable school plastic chairs being spoken to by an alleged physio for 57 minutes.

At least in primary EVERY subject is relevant.....even macrame is probably on some D&T curriculum somewhere....

That's true - and it might be safer than preferable to letting my current lot loose with a needle and thread

@MrsHamlet

I am the knob who has to stand and the front and teach everyone to suck eggs. I hate it. And there's always someone who thinks the patently obvious thing is a work of genius, which is just as bad. Model answers.... what a good idea!

🤣🤣🤣 yep that’s me too..

Oh oh oh ... just remembered on oracy. Cost a bomb and was shit.
I was "volunteered" to demo giving a speech on a topic that I was given without any prep. Which I did without any trouble.... because I'm a teacher and master of the blag and run the public speaking team. He gave me an actual gold star. I wanted to punch him.
We got the money back.

SUMO. Can't remember what it was about. Certainly not men in nappies.

We should have CPD in here.

Anyone else have six hats thinking back in the day?! We had a whole TWO DAYS overnight on it. Complete with sparkly hats. Run by someone who had taught for 2 years but was snogging the (married) head who then essentially got made to leave, went to another school and left there, then married a pupil a year later he had knocked up 😵😵😵

Ugh. Oracy training. The trainer picked on me to express an opinion about what he thought was an obscure subject, as a way to show the gathered staff how difficult it is for children to speak confidently about things they don't know well.

Unfortunately for him I had written my undergraduate dissertation about the said subject. He was quite flummoxed