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THE FIFIETH REPUBLIC!

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StaffRepFeistyClub · 25/02/2021 16:52

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.

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SmileEachDay · 28/02/2021 15:17

It's Friday afternoon and it's raining. I cone to your lesson. What do I see?

Me saying “if you finish writing the paragraph we can spend 5 minutes looking at duck videos” to bottom set Y11 and them all writing furiously because they are so, so odd.

piggywaspushed · 28/02/2021 15:18

Gosh, Will Lloyd thinks he is much better than us , doesn't he?? There is an abundance of sneering. Might stick him in a classroom for a few days ; see how he goes.

To google the water table you have to know the phrase in the first place and you have to know why you want to google it.

noblegiraffe · 28/02/2021 15:23

If Google is so brilliant at teaching people stuff why have we ended up with people thinking covid is fake or vaccines have time travelling nanochips or whatever?

RigaBalsam · 28/02/2021 15:27

A kid says to you ‘when am I ever going to use this in real life?’, what do you respond?

I used to get asked this all of the time makes me angry and ranty so they have stopped,

It's not this particular topic you will use again though I can give you plenty of examples where it is used but its the higher level and thinking skills that you will develop from doing it. It shows me you can work at that level. It shows everyone. Now if you wanted to do something more useful that you may use.( as I did at 16) I don't know such as shelf stacking in Morrisons then crack on now in the prep room and you can help load up the text books over and over.

Probably should not say this last bit to be fair. Blush

piggywaspushed · 28/02/2021 15:28

A little bit of advanced Googling (oh the delicious irony!) tells me Will went to an all boys' public schol not that long ago. Therefore, I conclude, he has No Fucking Clue.

Beachhuts90 · 28/02/2021 15:29

@WarriorN

I agree beach.

Unfortunately arts award and arts Mark are just there to give some sort of quantifiable ^^ to do anything creative or arts related. Really annoys me as the forms drive me nuts.

Re colouring in etc, there's loads of research around how drawing helps memory. So spending time drawing diagrams or symbols and, yes, colouring them in. I don't know why it's not valued.

Also, apparently new medical students lack the dexterity needed for surgical stitching as they've never sewn.

Agreed. Artsmark/award are symptoms of trying to keep the arts alive in a society or maybe administration that doesn't value them for what they are.
Beachhuts90 · 28/02/2021 15:42

@SmileEachDay

It's Friday afternoon and it's raining. I cone to your lesson. What do I see?

Me saying “if you finish writing the paragraph we can spend 5 minutes looking at duck videos” to bottom set Y11 and them all writing furiously because they are so, so odd.

GrinGrinGrin Just like....videos of actual ducks swimming around, or what?
MrsHerculePoirot · 28/02/2021 15:51

Not only is there no joined up thinking between subjects on our curriculum but also between GCSE and A-level - I'll never understand why they put set notation IN to GCSE then take it out for AS...

SmileEachDay · 28/02/2021 16:08

Just like....videos of actual ducks swimming around, or what?

Yep, pretty much. And, you know, diving and general duck stuff.

We’ve also been know to branch out into goose videos. The ones of them chasing people are good.

Honestly, this group are unique. The whole duck thing started because one of them insisted the pigeon outside was a duck. I said I’d find them a video to show the difference if they worked for 15 mins and no one bothered me.

The goose ones where an attempt to add some context to A Christmas Carol and the whole goose —no, Shannon it’s not the same as a turkey, why would I lie about that?—for dinner thing.

SmileEachDay · 28/02/2021 16:09

*were

MrsHamlet · 28/02/2021 16:20

Kids are weird. And hilarious.

cantkeepawayforever · 28/02/2021 16:26

@MrsHerculePoirot

Not only is there no joined up thinking between subjects on our curriculum but also between GCSE and A-level - I'll never understand why they put set notation IN to GCSE then take it out for AS...
Don't get me started on KS2 / Y7 transition.... secondary school colleagues simultaneously asking WHY children come up with no knowledge of something that hasn't been in the primary curriculum since 2014 and then insisting on starting able Y7s on Y3 objectives....
piggywaspushed · 28/02/2021 16:29

My favourite duck video is the one where they don't like the snow.

SmileEachDay · 28/02/2021 16:31

m.youtube.com/watch?v=GXRWOSmU2cc

This one?

Classic ducks.

piggywaspushed · 28/02/2021 16:33

That's not the one but very similar. It has cheered me up throughout the pandemic watching the ducks go back inside.

piggywaspushed · 28/02/2021 16:34
SmileEachDay · 28/02/2021 16:36

I love it. You can hear the ducks going “what the fuck is THIS?”

HarrietDVane · 28/02/2021 16:39

I have clearly not spent enough time looking at duck videos!

piggywaspushed · 28/02/2021 16:39

I may do that (or a loose equivalent ) on March 8th.

OK, lurkers, that was a joke. Copy and paste my post and I'll rip your head off.

SmileEachDay · 28/02/2021 16:41

I have clearly not spent enough time looking at duck videos!

There’s some CPD right there!!

JanFebAnyMonth · 28/02/2021 16:50

Seen this thread (obvs KofG, MrsHP and others have!):

Twice weekly lateral flow tests for households of school pupils www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/4178891-Twice-weekly-lateral-flow-tests-for-households-of-school-pupils ?

It's made me realise a new concern caused by the LFTs parents will possibly have lying around at home:

1 Student has symptoms, stays at home / is sent home, needs a PCR test.

2 Vaguely compliant but overworked/stressed/lazy parents just think "Won't bother trying to book for a centre/order one to be delivered, we've got these official tests just waiting here!"

3 Uses LFT, it's probably negative when in fact the student has coronavirus.

4 Positive student is sent back to school with a notification of a negative test.

Altho LFT results have to be logged don't they? Presumably as LFT results? And schools will ask to see the official result notification page?

Maybe am worrying over nothing.

But I think - as seen in the thread above -general concerns about parents not understanding the system, the difference between the tests and the meaning of a Negative result, are definitely valid.

JanFebAnyMonth · 28/02/2021 16:52

Love a 🦆

noblegiraffe · 28/02/2021 16:55

Schools aren't allowed to ask for proof of negative results.

rainingcats · 28/02/2021 16:55

The duck videos have reminded me of the lemonade stand duck song! My year seven form used to go mad over this video and I still to this day have no idea why. I would play it for them as a reward for having no detentions!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=MtN1YnoL46Q

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