The Forty Fifth Republic - Can I get a hair appointment before the summer term starts?

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He roes it before anyone piles in though noble. He quote tweets things and makes catty comments, for example just now on primary school tests which isn't in his remit. It's a bit of an unfortunate macho culture. He certainly isn't someone I'd send in to investigate sexual harassment or bullying.

www.tes.com/news/female-teachers-cat-called-shouted-and-touched

Speaking of which!

Boys will be boys, piggy

Mark McCourt/Complete Maths are looking for primary maths specialists to create instructional videos twitter.com/lasalleed/status/1380142397133357062?s=21

I had a mate who did work for them and it paid really well.

sarcastic, smug, never reflective, and very defensive - this was how he came across when he did a CPD session at my last school.

It's also exactly what doesn't work on kids these days .

The advice of the behaviour expert from county was, I kid you not, to remove the class from the room and allow him to ‘get his anger out of his system’ by launching chairs etc. His classmates had at least one interrupted lesson a day for MONTHS until our head lost her patience and had some staff members trained in positive handling and started removing him from the class when this happened.

We've got 100 children in my phase, and have 8 children like that.

Ouch @RuleWithAWoodenFoot. We’re very lucky that he’s the worst we’ve had (small rural primary).

Funnily enough, he got to the point where he knew who was trained to handle him and stopped kicking off the moment they appeared in the doorway.

Hope you’ve had similar luck with your eight.

@Timeturnerplease

We had a child (primary, this was through Y5 and 6 for him) who used to have impressive outbursts that, now I have a toddler, I see were essentially tantrums. No underlying issues, pretty ok family but they’d just always let him deal with his anger by throwing things.

He was ok at school when younger, but once the pre teen hormones hit he started this behaviour at school.

The advice of the behaviour expert from county was, I kid you not, to remove the class from the room and allow him to ‘get his anger out of his system’ by launching chairs etc. His classmates had at least one interrupted lesson a day for MONTHS until our head lost her patience and had some staff members trained in positive handling and started removing him from the class when this happened.

This, and several less extreme examples are why I am reluctant to trust so called behaviour experts.

As an LSA I've worked 1:1 with a lot of these children and this advice annoys me. So many times we put the behaviour/wellbeing of one child about the other 29 and its not fair. Also never involved in the meetings yet I'm the one dealing with them every day not the HT/DHT.

Today I did a 7 mile walk and now feeling exhausted. Our school are now on the contact list for extra vaccines so hoping I'll be getting one soon!

Well I just slept for 18 hours. Feel like I could sleep more. That’s not normal is it?

I do ok with behaviour these days beyond one outrageously immature and poorly behaved class who I see once a fortnight period 5 after they’ve all been split for other subjects and arrive in drubs and drabs.

My behaviour management has been described as discrete and proactive whatever that means. The class above seem to respond to being screamed and shouted at which I can’t be arsed with.

We’re a relationships and restorative school allegedly and actually after a few years there that is much of what I rely on and works. Staff turnover really needs to be low for that to work though. Hard for new staff.

I’m off to google excessive sleeping. This has happened a few times lately.

Since the new ADs Honey? Just a thought.

Honey I'm easily sleeping 12+ hours at the mo. Think I'm just preparing for the shit show that will tsunami in after the hols.

I wish I had the opportunity to sleep for that long. My kids got the memo it was the holidays and have been awake multiple times every single night. I'm going to be broken by the time we go back.

I hope it's nothing too serious honey, 18 hours is a very long time.

Don’t envy you Herc, I’m so glad my kids are of an age where they not only sleep through but also can get up and get their own breakfast. Those broken sleep/early start years are awful.

@motherrunner funfair plus social distancing sounds like an amazing plan! What could possibly go wrong?

I have the Wolverhampton edition of Monopoly. West Park is on there as a dark brown. A random fyi.

We have been seeing friends this holiday. At times it has seemed so normal I managed to forget about the virus for a while. Still no vaccine though...

Sorry my posts are always so illiterate. Mumsnet plus small phone screen is not a good combination.

Luckily ds is 14 so he just came in at 6pm to, ‘check if I was dead’.

Yes I guess since new ads but only recently rather than when I started which is when you’d think the side effects would be strongest.

Hoping I’ll sleep again tonight and then be a new woman tomorrow

@SquashedFlyBiscuits What is the ‘Park Lane’ of Wolverhampton? I’m intrigued!

I know Wolves has a bad rep but I live where I live, like any city it has its good and bad bits but I’m very happy here.

You will! On Monday you’ll be waltzing into school ready to chat up IT guy
(Although I believe your timetable doesn’t start til Tuesday, like mine )

Lots of people on my Twitter timeline saying they are cancelling their NEU membership over the no exclusions vote.

Given the discussions that have just been had about sexual assaults in schools it does seem to be a bad time to be arguing that no one should ever be expelled.

We’re back on Monday jan. we had our inset day on the last Friday of term. I’ve got my performance review thing on Monday before my lessons. And the nightmare group I was just posting about last lesson Hopefully they’ll be too tired to be trouble after getting up early for the first time.

Shan’t be chatting anyone up though

noble do we follow the same people? (likely)

NEU and no exclusions is not a positive partnership. The no exclusions line on sexual assaults is

I saw that. It does seem a bit precious to throw your union membership away, though. I am not sure I trust some of the vocal people.

That said, the union for years have commented on behaviour being something staff are very concerned about. They can't have it both ways.

Mary Bousted seems to be distancing herself from the whole thing.

It's a bit of a mess.

Did you see the tweet form the guy who said he wished more experienced classroom teachers would tweet and drown out the educlebs. I liked his point.

I have just taken DS1 to podiatrist. They want £275 to do toenail surgery.

Hopefully people will move unions or go to edapt?

Some educelebs are quite a while out of the classroom now and times have changed.