but I don't think I can avoid it. Anyone else? Some things seem unachievable and other rules are just so woolly that I don't know if I'm breaking them or not.
We are supposed to wear masks all the time. But it also says you can take it off sometimes if it impedes your teaching but then you must be 2m away. Of course it impedes teaching but who's to say what constitutes 'sometimes'? And I can sit 2m away sometimes but then a child moves and suddenly I'm not 2m and have to put the mask back on. And on and off constantly is bad, isn't it.
The older children are supposed to wear masks but it says they can be removed for activities that aren't conducive to mask wearing. I teach drama so large portions of my lessons don't work with masks. But then they end up wearing them for static, forward facing teaching time and taking them off for active group work - seems like the wrong way round but is the only way I can fit it to the rules.
The older children are supposed to distance but drama, dance, music and group work are encouraged. Very hard to fulfil both those criteria.
We're supposed to clean the furniture between lessons but also aren't supposed to leave lines of children unsupervised. No time to do both.
When children ask if they can't take their masks off I feel like I'm not allowed to say yes but I'm not allowed to say no either. So end up with woolly statements like 'I encourage you to keep it on if you feel able to' which just means they all take them off anyway. And then I worry about SLT walking past the window and seeing them without masks.
It's probably just mid week tiredness but I'm feeling really overwhelmed by it and it seems harder to jump through all the hoops than it did in Sept. I am genuinely so happy to be back and know I shouldn't moan when we could still be stuck online but I find the rules contradictory and am just scared of getting into trouble for doing the wrong thing. Anyone else?