The Fifty-Eight Republic - Do no masks mean that Sports Day will take place?

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Harriet, I don't understand either. The tone has varied from 'iI am so superior;' to 'oh no, I am so bad and shy' - it does appear to be someone who craves attention, whether positive or negative, and us teachers being a helpful lot, they get more of it on this part of MN. Or something. Why does anyone troll?

Can't - You're right, they couldn't seem to make up their mind about who they were or what they wanted. There was a lot of inconsistency.

A name change for this one as a bit outing.

Staff meeting on teaching sex ed in term six. Staff in year group bubbles sat face to face in classrooms but all logged in to teams for the meeting. Asked to discuss with those in our face to face group how we had learnt about sex as a child. Was it from schools, parents, friends? What had we been taught etc.

So that would be middle aged me and the 26year old male rqt then. Just the two of us for a cosy chat. What fun!

if they're not in meetings (this is when it falls down)

That was the problem today. I'm management too - I get called for other children, but when I'm in class I just need someone to take mine away.

This child is heading for perm exclusion (which will help him, long term) - either that or a really urgent managed move.

We have had a few sawn into chairs too. Tiktok has a lot to answer for

How can you saw a chair with a nylon string???

Goodness knows Jan but you can. Some of our year 8s damaged a few chairs.

Very effectively, Jan

What on Earth? Some of our work masks would come apart way before that happened. I’d have thought the string would have frayed first.

@RuleWithAWoodenFoot

if they're not in meetings (this is when it falls down)

That was the problem today. I'm management too - I get called for other children, but when I'm in class I just need someone to take mine away.

This child is heading for perm exclusion (which will help him, long term) - either that or a really urgent managed move.

Frustrating for you if it happens to fall when no one else is free. Hope referrals etc come through quickly for the child. I've got friends struggling through the ehcp/right setting fight atm.

Really hoping mine don't see the challenges as quite frankly they are stupid enough to try it!

We have sex ed coming up, think our male nqt is bricking it!

It melts the plastic of the chair rather than actually sawing it. It's very effective. We had 2 damaged chairs, 2 kids internally excluded, and all pupils warned that there would be serious consequences If they were caught doing it (which made it rather tempting for some of the more disruptive kids).

I'm very ready for year 11 to leave now. I have 2 classes of them, and they've all more or less down tooled in lessons. They're saving ALL their effort for assessments, and doing practically nothing towards any sort of revision either in class or at home. They are doing my head in.

How well do they think the assessments are going to go if they aren’t doing any sort of revision at home or in class. Or shouldn’t I ask.

We've had the chair sawing too. Day in isolation and requesting money from parents, plus a letter home to all parents, seems to have put a stop to it (we still have masks for now).

Chair sawing looks interesting. As a science demo perhaps? Hmm...

We had a chair sawed here too. Again on tiktok 🙄

We are doing Comparative Judgment marking for two assessments. Otherwise dubbed No More Marking.

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Our sex Ed is delivered by the school nurse, thankfully

@RafaIsTheKingOfClay

How well do they think the assessments are going to go if they aren’t doing any sort of revision at home or in class. Or shouldn’t I ask.

They think the assessments will go really well. One of them said "why do I need to do any work? I'm hardly likely to fail" yesterday. They are doing the foundation maths paper and are aiming for 5s, which a lot of them got in their mocks in December, so they are (fairly realistically) assuming that we won't give them a lower grade now than we did in December.

My nurture group were never likely to do much revision. Their view of the assessments is "I'm going to fail anyway, what's the point of revising?" They are trying hard in the actual assessments though, which I'm taking as a win.

Not a fan, Piggy?

Dd2 is in year 6 and is dreading sex education next half term. She literally puts her hands over her ears when I try to tell her anything about puberty and/or sex, so I'm not sure how she'll cope with learning this stuff at school. She doesn't think she needs to know any of this yet (she definitely needs to know about puberty, but the denial is strong)

@Piggywaspushed

We are doing Comparative Judgment marking for two assessments. Otherwise dubbed No More Marking.

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Urgh! We looked at bringing this in for writing in primary. We decided not to because there are so many issues with it. Interestingly, the local schools that did are now asking us for advice about Y6 writing because they've found it doesn't match up at all with how they need to assess the kids.

DD (9) was really easy to teach Sex Ed to. One day in Yr 1 she came home and said ‘so and so said babies are born out of your tummy button’. I told her to sit and down and told her everything. Didn’t even bat an eyelid. It made me laugh later that year when my sister in law became pregnant, DD asked her whether she thought her baby would be born ‘out of her stomach or out of her vagina’ 😆

Just 3 more assessments with Yr 11, 1 with Yr 13 and 2 Yr 10 exams to get through before half term! Last lesson with Yr 13 Friday so planning a party. Yr 11 can fuck off.

My last lesson with my Y13s is just before their final assessment. They want to play the Pirate Game.

We are not playing the Pirate Game.

iam, in theory it's a good idea but our HOF thought it was faster. It isn't. Our year groups are too large for it to be a timesaver. ne set of marking for my own class would probably take me two hours, tops. This has taken me 6.

And the H and S implications of staring at a screen for 6 hours are not great. Three loss of vision episodes and two migraines so far!

Add in the no free periods and the ridiculously short deadline and people aren't going to do it properly or be up all night doing it.