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

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@noblegiraffe

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.

You meany!! I'm playing the pirate game with my y13 on their last lesson. Of course, I have my last lesson the day after their last assessment, so I'm at a loss to what else I'm supposed to do with them . They've also asked for Caterpillar cake, so it looks like we're pretty much having a party that day.

Yeah, we used it to baseline Yr 7, 8 and 9 and it chucked our some odd rankings.

That's a worry as we are using it for TAGs!

Cake!! You’ll be giving them chairs (unsawn ones) next!!!

@JanFebAnyMonth

Cake!! You’ll be giving them chairs (unsawn ones) next!!!

Oh no!! Not chairs!! All my chairs are wobbly and they often have to try every chair in the room to find one they're happy to sit on

@Piggywaspushed

That's a worry as we are using it for TAGs!

They explain it as it depending entirely on the order the scripts come through in as ti how reliable it is.

In GCSE grade terms, if a script worth roughly a grade 3 persistently comes up after a script worth a 1/2, the marker will keep upticking the grade 3 script until it becomes a 5.

Well, this is what I was worried about. And I kept getting two grade 8s side by side which made me worry about downgrading.

One of my own boys came up once. he was a good script but was next to a better one so he lost out. If that keeps happening to him he will fall down the rankings. Not sure if our huge year groups make it more reliable or less,

Are you then moderating the results? Eg, this kid is definitely an 8, not a 6...?

Well, sort of. But we won't have looked at our own class's scripts to do that. We are CJing 1/2 and marking half of the assessments.

It is meant to be a workload saver. Hollow laugh.

It really isn't.

Presently not using this for your other subjects?

Nope!

When I mark my own classes obviously I instinctively rank order but I also have an overview of what is going on...

Calling it 'No More Marking' needs to be challenged under the Trades Descriptions Act!

It totally does.

We’re moderating all evidence folders after half term - like in the good old coursework days!

Gained time? Who needs it!

More cases at DS's school. Indian Variant is assumed. Think they ought to check whole school??

Err yes piggy! Has the surge testing mentioned on Monday by Matty H appeared yet??

Not til next week I think. Schools in other areas had whole communities tested so not sure why not his. Thankfully his is only sixth form so it may get better when y13 leave. although they are v good at segregating years anyway.

Indian Variant letter just gone out in my LA. No masks though. That'll be coming, I am guessing.

Saw three members of SLT in corridors yesterday. All maskless.

I WANT TO PLAY THE PIRATE GAME

@Piggywaspushed

More cases at DS's school. Indian Variant is assumed. Think they ought to check whole school??

They definitely need to check the whole school if they've had several cases. In the same yeargroup? Or in a few different yeargroups?

Two : year 12 and 13 ie whole intake of school (it's an annexe to main school)

They are PCR testing contacts, have been for a while.