The Fifty-third Republic - Ides of March Part 2

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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 non-staff as it attracts the wrong sort of crowd.

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 do wear a mask

And good luck Name and HoneyBadger. 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Ooh. Just seen the list of things HoneyBadger has recommended for the school!!! 😍

Taking requests for the staff choir repertoire

Let's not forget @KatherineOfGaunt's classic 'Where the fuck is Gavin?'

We could definitely get tanked up down The Republic and sing that in chorus.

Oh that’s rubbish @MrsHamlet and @thecatfromjapan. I really feel for you. Well done for putting yourselves out there and going for it though. Kudos definitely.

@chocolateisavegetable I hereby nominate this for the ukelele band and choir:

Good luck to the interviewees. Think Chris has something to say to you:

Staff choir needs my old year 6 anthem from a few years ago - Twisted Sister "We're not gonna take it!" That was an excellent class. We tidied up to Ace Of Spades. This current lot are all TikTok and no taste.

I do miss my A Level classes of around 2000- 2005 sometimes. We had excellent soundtracks. I can't remember which year now but I had a whole A Level history set of indie kids one year and it was brilliant. They burnt me a CD when they left. I still tear up when I hear "Emily Kane" and Interpol.

And Bloc Party. God,I must rummage out my old CD's. I hope you A Level teachers still get the chance to do that sort of thing, although probably not.

I play my year 6 Brian Eno, Cohen and Lou Reed under the guise of "quiet music" when they come in and register. My revolution is not televised.

Please may I be union rep for our school - I think it might be the easiest job ever!

@JanFebAnyMonth

Oh what I wouldn't give for a night out with you lot at the moment.

Absolutely, I would really love to go out out with "my mumsnet teachers" as my husband calls you lot.

I feel as if the Maths department might already be full blush.

Sorry to hear about the interview, MrsH. Hope that you are ok.

Good luck for tomorrow, NameChanged and Honey.

I have one more day of lessons left before we break up for Easter. Have promised my dc I'll have big long chats with them tomorrow at bedtime, but unfortunately tonight is for finishing marking.

Nothing exciting to report here. Kids are knackered though, three of them fell asleep in my lesson yesterday after lunch!

I mean .

Brie, we definitely saved a space for you in the Maths Dream Team, no worries there!

Thank you, Lovely Ones.

I was downcast, I'll admit.

But rallying now.

Aww, thank you . I remember going out with my PGCE classmates on a night out. I trained in my late 30s and I left shortly after they all got rat-arsed and started snogging each other . Felt extremely old!

@phlebasconsidered

And Bloc Party. God,I must rummage out my old CD's. I hope you A Level teachers still get the chance to do that sort of thing, although probably not.

I play my year 6 Brian Eno, Cohen and Lou Reed under the guise of "quiet music" when they come in and register. My revolution is not televised.

You’ve just reminded me of the old art and music of the week thread from TES.

We should introduce that. Definitely space for Eno, Cohen & Reed in that.

brie maths is a whole school subject, we need a lot of teachers. As do English, and science. I'm claiming my space in the maths department and asking for responsibility for the lowest ability. I want to be able to deliver a bespoke curriculum for those kids and I will happily teach the very bottom set of every yeargroup, as long as I have full control of what I teach them. I do not want to have to stick to the same sow as the rest of the yeargroup. So my lowest ability maths classes will be focusing on money, time, measuring, etc for at least KS3. I will bring in appropriate bits of algebra and geometry as and when I think they are ready for it, but will NOT sacrifice the life skills they need for the ideology of others. (Can you tell which groups I'm planning for right now? Why am I trying to teach a child who doesn't recognise coins and can't tell the time how to solve an equation?) And please may I teach some A Level as well? I'm happy to teach any of it (having taught myself stats 3 summers ago, as I'd managed to avoid it all my life)

You're all lovely. I've been cuddling my friend's little girls all evening. They don't care that nobody wants me 🤣

MrsH they don't know what they're missing out on. You don't want to work there anyway, it's rubbish Something more suited to you will come up soon/eventually.

Good luck tomorrow name and honey. You can do this!!! I recommend a self confidence hypnosis track on loop overnight while you're sleeping. You'll wake up feeling slightly more confident and ready to take on the world. 🤞

Up until the pandemic, my A Level classes always had ‘cake Friday’ and one person each week baked a technology themed cake to being in. Even the most jaded of students made a real effort every time. Miss that.

I have taken to playing a new motivational tune to my sixth form form group even morning. Started off trying to be ‘cool’ but yesterday payed a song from the film Trolls ‘Get back up again’.
Classic stuff that.

This thread has ready made me smile tonight-what a fab school we could make, starting from scratch!

Not like the one I’m in with leaking ceilings, barely flushing toilets, cracked sinks, broken trays, crap printer, restricted photocopying and a deficit budget! And no men at all, aside from the caretaker, let alone one so lovely as Chris!

My A Level classes had biscuit Fridays too, until we were told to stop Apparently it was making a mess (it wasn't) and some resentment among other classes who didn't get it (not my fault, I didn't provide the biscuits)

Oh, you'll never guess what I've been told off for this week. Sixth formers wearing coats in my classroom. A) it's bloody cold with the windows and doors open and B) wearing their coats really isn't affecting their learning or their behaviour in any way, they're just staying warm. Yet another standard I am failing to care about in my effort to teach them some maths before they are sent home to isolate again.

Well I saw a job and wasn’t even brave enough to apply so you’re all better than me 🤣