The Fifty-fourth Republic - Easter holidays anyone?

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DrMadeline do it!!! One of my teacher friends has hers booked for Friday and she's only 25 with incredibly mild asthma. I expressed surprise that she's been offered it when our other friend is 55 with worse asthma and had to wait for her age group (she's booked in for some time next week, but it definitely seems the wrong way round!)

Guy I hope you get a suitable response from your ds's school tomorrow. That sounds like a horrible experience for him, poor little lad. My dd1 was bullied for a while in year 7, but she didn't even tell me until we found her truanting one day. She was leaving for school, walking round the block then coming home once she knew we'd left for work. It was the third day she'd done that (she'd even baked bloody muffins alone in the house the day before as we were expecting them from food tech!!). Once I knew about the bullying and spoke to school they were brilliant and sorted it out really quickly, but I had to phone and insist on speaking to someone. Emails weren't really picked up very quickly.

Emails still aren't picked up very quickly by our pastoral staff. I had an emergency situation today and nobody in pastoral got back to me for over 3 hours. That's not an emergency time scale!!!!

Definitely take the jab ^DrM*!

Isn’t it heartening to read of the kindness of the HCPs in doing what they can for education staff?!

@eitak22 tomorrow is another day. I'm not sure which age group you are, but I've had at least a week where I've been really wondering if I can do it. Our children have been finding things tricky which means teaching is tricky. It's not you. Don't give up on that application just yet!

Hmm. Who would have thought?
As we predicted

But Hen, Dr Khan said that new research (you don’t know it, it goes to a different school) showed that they were super reliable!

Do it DrM.

Congratulations on the new job named. Sorry about yours Honey. That’s a bit shit of them. My sister had something similar happen with a job she’d been the temporary stand in for.

FFS my neighbour. Highlights from this evenings drunken phone conversation include:
You were the one that called me a sket, a skank and a slag.
He’s lying here butt naked on my bed, do you want me to take a photo and show you?
DID YOU PUT YOUR FACE IN HER FANNY?
Now she’s yelling ‘Hayley, who the fuck is Hayley. Why are you lying. You’re hiding something.’ repeatedly.

Wondering what it’s like to live somewhere quiet.

The actual Deeks review:
www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD013705.pub2/full

I asked my gp a while ago whether I'm group 6, and although I'm not 50, I've had it in an email from my gp that as far as their records are concerned, I'm in group 9 for the jab. It's one of the groups covered by the booking link and I've booked an appt, and will now dither about whether to keep it as I KNOW they must have that wrong at the docs as I'm not old enough to be in group 9.

(Gives you faith, doesn't it, when you ask for official confirmation and they get your age wrong! Mind you, they spelled my name wrong in the email too.)

I wonder whether they might have deliberately have put you in that group. Asthma U.K. have a petition here to increase asthma priority.

action.asthma.org.uk/page/76527/petition/1?ea.tracking.id=TW

Happy news to wake up to for my city - cases up by 24%. Guess that explains all the isolating year groups at my, and other local, secondaries. Primary seems to be ‘safe’ at the moment.

www.expressandstar.com/news/health/coronavirus-covid19/2021/03/24/third-wave-warning-as-cases-rise/

Happy news to wake up to for my city - cases up by 24%. Guess that explains all the isolating year groups at my, and other local, secondaries. Primary seems to be ‘safe’ at the moment.

www.expressandstar.com/news/health/coronavirus-covid19/2021/03/24/third-wave-warning-as-cases-rise/

I think this is the important bit form Deeks:

. *We did not find any evidence of test accuracy in at‐risk asymptomatic groups, such as contacts of confirmed cases, hospital workers, or during local outbreaks at schools, workplaces, or care homes. The impact of low‐sensitivity tests in these settings is greater than in mass screening, as there will be higher numbers of false negatives, which could either create new outbreaks or will increase the severity of existing outbreaks. Positive cases will be more likely to be true positives than in mass screening settings

1. We did not find any evidence evaluating the repeated use of tests. Although serial testing (over a number of days), or combinations of different rapid tests (e.g. an antigen test followed by a rapid molecular test) on the same sample are proposed to overcome the limitations of low test sensitivity, they all require validation. Use of multiple tests may increase false positive results, and there are likely to be many individuals with repeated false negative results reducing the expected benefit of subsequent tests. It is unlikely that models will be able to predict how well repeated tests and test combinations would work*

Gosh mother, hope you stay "clear"....

Jesus, mother that's a huge amount.

Well done name! Excellent news. Commiserations Honey - don't let them make you work for free. A friend of mine went for a mentoring position once but annoyed the interviewer (a member of SLT who didn't like being told that there were issues that needed fixing). They stole all of her ideas and passed them off as their own. It's also interesting from a part-time stand point - my school has just given a major post to a member of staff who is part time. They'll end up working just as much on the unpaid days as a full time member of staff but are obviously cheaper. Feels exploitative but the member of staff is excellent and totally the best person for the role. Maybe it'll all work.

24% sounds bad but will depend a bit on what your original levels were. As the numbers fall the % increase in smaller areas can suddenly jump up even though it might only be a handful of extra cases or a single household or a linked outbreak.

Ours seem to jump up and down by anything between 100% and 1500% and then go down to what it was once they recover if that helps. Fingers crossed the same happens where you are.

DID YOU PUT YOUR FACE IN HER FANNY

Crappy situation for you I know, but this comment did make me laugh. I have a juvenile urge to giggle at the word fanny.

It did make me laugh too. It was too good not to share. Fortunately that was almost the last call. Normally what happens is it goes on and on in 5-10 minute calls every 15 minutes or so until gone midnight.

@StaffRepFeistyClub thanks for a new thread!

@GuyFawkesDay I hope you get the situation sorted. It's horrible to know your child is being bullied

Having a rubbish couple of days here. Been super busy this week and have got a cold (no covid symptoms thankfully) but ended up coming home at lunch today as I felt so rough. I hate taking time off as I feel so guilty think I feel so rough because I'm so tired. Plus I feel like I have had barely anytime for my poor NQT this week. He's a gem and has cracked on with it bless him.

Going to just rest completely tonight and hopefully I'll be able to go to school tomorrow and then have a restful weekend.

Quiet on here. I have parent's evening starting soon. We only get 1 minute between appointments this time, last time we had 2. Better get my g&ts lined up at the ready

@TheHoneyBadger

Quiet on here. I have parent's evening starting soon. We only get 1 minute between appointments this time, last time we had 2. Better get my g&ts lined up at the ready

We currently have no minutes!

Using school cloud at it goes ‘bam’ into the next appointment one after the other.

We have 5 minute slots. I like school cloud but I have been fair done in with a massive run of parents evenings-I’ve had 1 a week for the past 5 weeks!

Good luck Honey. Hope it goes quick.

Jeez Chloe.

Just had one join the call two minutes late and then go into a really long winded waffly question - some people don't have a concept of time I think. And they do a last minute panic raising of a concern that you have no time to answer. I have an empty appointment now so actually get to breathe!

It’s become a battle that’s for sure Honey!
I’ve learnt to get everything I want to say right at the beginning and then pass over to the parent.
The more I do, the quicker I speak!

mobile.twitter.com/DavidLammy/status/1375020299964538885

Vicky Ford, rewriting history on free school meals here.

Quick one, SLT think kids will be in til end of June. Anyone else heard this?

Y11s, you mean, or all of them??