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

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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

Oh, I thought I posted it here too jan but it may have been buried.

Everyone aged 30-39 associated with DS's school to be vaccinated today or Friday.

MP and mayor now written to JCVI requesting vaccines for whole of borough aged 16+.

The borough is keeping masks it seems. But in MK and Northants whole schools are being tested whereas at DS's school, only close contacts. Weird.

Rule, why don't you adopt Timeturner's midwife's approach, if you're questioned by Ofsted?

It’s basically how the DFE respond to concerns so why not!!!

@MsAwesomeDragon Sadly I already eat as if I’m T2 diabetic - had it in previous pregnancy, plus have long term insulin resistance thanks to PCOS - so surely they should be thinking that I need proper treatment even more now it’s not diet controlled.

Am absolutely going to call and request a blood testing kit though, that’s a great idea. I can keep track of the levels and what I eat and then I guess if it all goes haywire at least I’ll have justification for asking for a consultant opinion. DD was tiny but early. I do not fancy a giant baby in the middle of the summer holidays!

piggy sounds like you may know as much about the cases in my county as me! Rhere’s Only been one local news story and it flatly refuses to name the school. I read all the Fb comments and someone thought it might be a primary in Towcester, but not sure. Am just going back on Fb to check.

I wonder how many more places it’s got to pop up before they admit it’s a Big Problem??

BJ is 'anxious' about it according to the BBC news website. So that means he'll probably do something about it in about, erm.. August?

Is it bad that I laughed when that popped up on my phone as a notification, from BBC News Rule? At what point does anxiety, turn into action. Presume he's not anxious that his irreversible unlockdown might turn out not to be so irreversible since it was almost inevitably going to turn out to be a lie.

Hello everyone - congrats to @13luckyblackcats on the new job! Well done

I spent most of yesterday night trawling through the Ofsted report on RE which landed yesterday. I don't even have a GCSE in RE but I'm expected to lead it.

We had a history deep dive in our last Ofsted - they also did maths and early reading which I think is standard. The inspector observed all teachers at least once and grilled us all on the subjects they'd seen us teach.

@Timeturnerplease

*In another hilarious for teachers moment, I cannot get my bp checked at the chemist opposite my house because covid.

I cannot get a doctor's f2f appt because covid*

Conversation between midwife and I at check up today:

MW: You look tired, are you ok?
Me: Well like I said on the phone I’m very dehydrated, I’ve been drinking five litres of water a day but still thirsty. I’m also dizzy a lot.
MW: Ah well you might have gestational diabetes again.
Me: I guess that. When will I be tested?
MW: Well our trust aren’t running the tests at the moment because of covid. It’s too dangerous.
Me: So can I just carry on as normal, will the baby be ok?
MW: Well no, if you have it we need to monitor you closely.
Me: Ok, so what do I do?
MW: It’s too dangerous to test you because of covid.

It was a very circular conversation.

If you haven't got anywhere, I'd be tempted to try PALS with that. That's ridiculous. Covid shouldn't mean that people that need treatment now don't get it. Just that it isn't done F2F if it isn't necessary.

Fecking printers at school nearly broke me today. Fuckwit SLT have instituted a new and "improved" way to print to reduce waste but IT DOESN'T WORK and I am so frustrated. I've had a nightmare safeguarding week and I've coped with that but the inability to print a photo (as a piece of totally bollocks tickboxing but that's not the point) nearly had me in tears.

Congratulations blackcats
name you need to take it easy, look after your health first and foremost.
Had a horrible incident at school today, safeguarding/mh problems nightmare. I came home and cuddled toddler so tight 😔

 @cornercupboard and @HobnobbingAboutHobnobs - it's been a bad week for safeguarding. I hope you're both ok and receiving support.

Evening. Shocked by that Timeturner. That’s negligence surely?

Still feeling crap. I have the gym then work in the morning so I’m really hoping to sleep well and wake up feeling better. Still very achy and have a fever and that horrible head cold feeling.

I forgot you were nearby piggy. We haven’t had a case at all since reopening fully but then we were all clear nearly all the way to October half term but once we had one it was popping up throughout the year groups so I know the word yet is key. It seemed like it was in all the schools around us but we were miraculously ok then poof.

Sorry forgot to say congratulations blackcats! Glad you’ve secured a job somewhere you feel good about.

That is really shocking, Timeturner - I hope you can find a way to get seen and checked ASAP.

@13luckyblackcats congratulations great news.

Just managing to pop in as been absolutely crazy busy all week. Still marking/standardising etc. Also got 2 team members off so lots of cover to organise. Plus SLT seem to plowing ahead with all sorts of new initiatives- some of which need sorting this half term

My workload has been absolutely through the roof. KS4 co-ordinator has done next to nothing about organising TAGs and when I went through a couple of things that need doing for/in summer 2, had the audacity to complain about his workload the things that need doing are routine parts of the job!

I'm so tired at the moment and feel really rubbish

Hugs to fellow tired people X

@Timeturnerplease that sounds so wrong, I'd rock up at a&e if you get nowhere. Have a dizzy/fainting spell and get a medic to actually examine you. It's ridiculous you've not been seen.

So many safeguarding issues this week. I've had one with one of my tutor group. Breaks my heart.

Situation with department still godawful. It's rocketed my anxiety this year, and am now on ADs.

Genuinely think lots of teachers might be heading towards being burnt out.

Genuinely think lots of teachers might be heading towards being burnt out.

I agree, Arnotts - looking around at our staff, we are all so downtrodden and exhausted, and there's no end in sight.

My hod thanked me today. His breakdown has clearly begun.

Yup burnt out. Getting in at 7.15 to mark and plan. Hence migraines.

Yep safeguarding stuff on exponential rise. And behaviour issues likewise.

Exhausted all round here, too.

Also knackered here. Came to bed at 7 and have just faffed around on my phone for hours interspersed with reading an actual book. Just could not bear the thought of work tonight.

I'm fed up today and exhausted. SLT are not involved in the TAGing as they don't really teach bar one. So none of them have any idea how much effort it is.
Constantly being monitored and scrutinised and I'm not at my best because of the million non actual teaching jobs that need doing. Lessons are playing second fiddle to everything else right now.

I just want to be able to plan a holiday really - a proper one, not one with a weather lottery. I've got France booked, but even that might not happen - the post Brexit hoop jumping is a pain in the arse if we want to do the normal house swap we do with our friends. They have to get an invite from the mayor of the village for us to do that. FFS.

I would love to have a holiday to look forward to, but haven't dared book anything this year. We've got a rescheduled short break booked for October half term (held over from last October) but that's it.