The Fifty-first republic - twice weekly tests and wear masks at all time till Easter

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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.

If you are NOT staff and just have a general education query please start your own thread.

Do not give the staffroom password to others just in case it attracts the wrong sort

Other requirements for staff room entry include the ability to find the staff room, the ability to find a clean mug in the staff room, knowledge of the photocopier codes, and the ability to sniff out where the booze is stashed - Thirsty Tuesdays, Fizz Fridays now in operation. Do not sit on the chairs and wear a mask.

Digital tools? Directing people to Headspace then.

I'd debate how open it has remained given my referral was in 2019, and I was already seeing somebody when rather than referring me onwards they withdrew all support because the next step aren't taking any new patients because of Covid. I can only imagine that's worse in CAMHS as it usually is.

Taught half my lesson on mute today. 🤦‍♀️

🤣 @RigaBalsam

I’m worried because I won’t be able turn my camera off to stop my eyes rolling and my face showing what I’m thinking from next week... I can just about control what I say but my face not so much!

I did that the other day Riga but luckily one of my louder kids (one who can be a pain in the classroom but has been delightful in lockdown) unmuted himself to let me know. Which was lovely of him

We've been cameras fully on so no eye rolling here but I have perfected the art of nipping off screen for a swig of tea. That's not going to happen next week.

@MsAwesomeDragon

I did that the other day Riga but luckily one of my louder kids (one who can be a pain in the classroom but has been delightful in lockdown) unmuted himself to let me know. Which was lovely of him

Mine took 25 minutes to tell me. At least I am not the only one.

Congratulations Station - great news

Mine took at least three hours to tell me I hadn't uploaded a video I'd told them to watch. I guess that's the recorded lesson version of being on mute! Half of them had responded to the activity but clearly just not bothered by lack of video...

Great news station! I'm happy when I hear of anyone vaccinated, one more person safe

Gin open and 'fuck it' attitude for the weekends. I'm doing nothing school related.

Anyone else feel like Monday will be a false start?

Oh my.

My new timetable has me charging from one end of the building to the other several times a day.

Should help the post lockdown health kick!

What do you mean by false start herc?

@SmileEachDay

Oh my.

My new timetable has me charging from one end of the building to the other several times a day.

Should help the post lockdown health kick!

It's so that you're not tempted to loiter on a chair

It's so that you're not tempted to loiter on a chair

Of COURSE!!!

Maybe false start is the wrong expression. Just that today feels like the end of remote teaching, whereas due to my TT and testing days, I will only have 2 actual lessons with students face to face next week. Quite glad we're so staggered. I know of 3 staff getting the vaccine Monday so they're hopeful almost another week should give them some protection.

@RuleWithAWoodenFoot and any other low sugar people...can I still have wine???

Herc I agree. I’ve felt kinda end of termish all week, but actually next week is much the same but just more of a PITA because there are a handful of face to face lessons.

I haven't caught up with the thread yet but am absolutely incandescent after sitting through a local authority propaganda information film for school staff, which consisted of millions of graphs and a patronising voiceover telling staff that 'school staff are at no greater risk than any other worker.' The film was introduced by some sort of LA bigwig who was clearly filming from their home.

@HerdyGerdy, the thread has come a long way since this morning, but if you want to talk about working in the independent sector, feel free to message me.

I took the dc to see my parents, as we have seen them for 20 minutes since Christmas, and probably won't see them again for at least a month. We stood on their driveway for 30 min whilst they gave me tonnes and tonnes of food - they always worry I've not got enough time to feed the family properly during term time! We gave then some scones and cake in return . They have their second jabs booked for next week - I'm very relieved.

Hope everyone is ok. I feel as if I've completely lost it recently. Told youngest dc he was off timetable today, when he actually wasn't!

We started LTFs today, 7 and 11.

Found a positive, closed a KW bubble.

@HarrietDVane

I haven't caught up with the thread yet but am absolutely incandescent after sitting through a local authority propaganda information film for school staff, which consisted of millions of graphs and a patronising voiceover telling staff that 'school staff are at no greater risk than any other worker.' The film was introduced by some sort of LA bigwig who was clearly filming from their home.

motherrunner has a nice sledgehammer you could borrow. You know, in case his home isn't sufficiently ventilated.

I got the loveliest, sweetest thank you message from a parent today, saying how grateful and appreciative they were for my/our hard work, support and commitment in making this lockdown so much more manageable and fun than it otherwise might have been.
Almost feel like posting it in bold capitals on some of "those" threads full of posters who think we're all workshy leftie bastards and are glad we don't teach their kids.

Frlrlrubert I doubt yours will be the only school where that happens, sadly

How lovely Angelina

Can someone who understands please explain the false positive thing to me? How it's more important at lower incidence rates (if that's right)?

That's lovely, Angelina.

I think Jan it’s because the number of false positives is a percentage of those being tested, not those testing positive. The fewer genuinely testing positive, the relatively larger the proportion of total positive tests will be false ones.

Say you’re testing 10000 people and you get 5 false positives. That’s not so bad if the infection rate is high and you are getting 100 genuine positives. But if the infection rate is low, you’ll be getting 5 false positives and 10 genuine positives which makes it less worth doing the tests.

Tom Bennett has fired off a twitter thread re behaviour, wellbeing and student return. From my pov it's pretty sensible.