The broom cupboard 3 - for briefly stranded republicans

[TheHoneyBadger]

First in tops up the gin supplies and turns on the tea urn.

I expect all the stationery delivery drivers have decamped to supermarkets for the £££ - and who can blame them. There was an interview on World at One that outlined the training needed to become a HGV driver. I wonder if some people don’t realise what a demanding and skilled job it is, like many jobs we take for granted because they’re done by someone else (not people on this thread though, who would, I’m sure, know better).

[quote Piggywaspushed]Well, now....where to begin?

www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/30/call-for-schools-across-europe-to-stay-open-and-be-made-safer-covid[/quote]
“The pandemic has caused the most catastrophic disruption to education in history,” said Hans Kluge, the head of the WHO’sEuroperegion.

Yeah, switching to an online-based learning platform was way more disruptive than evacuation during the Second World War. What a ridiculous statement.

The data also doesn't support that. According to studies into the impact on primary education, in Y6 reading was on par with 2016 and Maths across the country was only about 6% lower. The only significantly impacted area was grammar and they bloody forget it all during Y7 anyway!

WW2 would definitely have been more disrupted due to lack of internet in those days and the evacuations Of course there has been disruption during covid but not like it would have been in the war.

The Y10s I taught last year started GCSE in Y9 so have had 2 disrupted years. Credit where it is due, they worked their socks off and did really well in the end of year mocks - in fact, by and large, results were good across the department. I think a lot of kids have been more motivated to put some effort into their mocks because of covid.

@twinkletoesimnot

We have inset this Thursday and Friday, kids in from next Monday.

Im the big 40 tomorrow and Im struggling to get motivated to do any work!

Happy Birthday for tomorrow!

Did he mean in more deprived countries?

Yy to meeting up again honey. I feel like autumn’s already come here. I had a search around and couldn’t find anything addressing your ‘parents of isolating children required to be in work’ question.
Guess what sorts of posts are going to be dominating the Covid and AIBU boards in a week or two!

😵 at one days paid dependency leave!!! But presumably in that case you’d take unpaid dependency leave that all employees are entitled to and then you can claim the £500 though? So I think it is sort of covered way?

I have no tables and chairs for complicated reasons, despite ordering them in June, and a window of one INSET day on Wed for them to arrive. Otherwise I will spend the day scrounging anything I can find from the rest of school.

I am having dreams about turning up for a sporting competition which I haven't practised for over a decade, without the required partner. Hilarious, thanks brain.

Don't forget WHO not just talking about UK there. I assume there are countries that didn't face all that much WW2 disruption....

@borntobequiet

I expect all the stationery delivery drivers have decamped to supermarkets for the £££ - and who can blame them. There was an interview on World at One that outlined the training needed to become a HGV driver. I wonder if some people don’t realise what a demanding and skilled job it is, like many jobs we take for granted because they’re done by someone else (not people on this thread though, who would, I’m sure, know better).

I saw the story about finding and training HGV drivers in the UK and thought they make it sound simple but I'm sure it's not. For a start you'd need a full car driving licence and then there will be quite a bit of training needed before you can take the test. This all takes time and we seem to be short of lorry drivers now... I don't want them rushing people through, driving a lorry must be pretty high on the danger to others if you don't know what you are doing list.

Oh god the dreams. None of mine have been work ones, but I’ve had some very vivid ones most nights recently….. I’m fully burying my head in sand tbh. I’ve done the stuff for INSET I need to, then due to my working days and our testing schedule I don’t actually teach until Tuesday! We are back Thursday…

There was an interview on World at One that outlined the training needed to become a HGV driver. I wonder if some people don’t realise what a demanding and skilled job it is

In my previous life I worked in waste haulage. Those guys earned the same as me and I was on the board. They used to let me drive the artics around the yard - without fail I fucked it up every time. The trailers would be on a wall and I wouldn't even know, I couldn't even start to work out how to reverse them. We used to have guys coming out of the army as drivers - so properly trained with HGV licences - who couldn't turn around properly either, we'd have to send out some our good guys to rescue them. Our drivers were a bunch of naughty buggers, so would be in and out of prison fairly often - they'd ring the day before parole to say 'Have I got a job?' and we'd be snatching their hands off to get them back. The good ones are worth their weight.

The only significantly impacted area was grammar

Yes, I'd agree. Writing suffered, but that's about it. That was from experience in my class/phase and with my own child. We've worked on that over the summer though.

Rule, that’s all fascinating, particularly about your past life....,

No weird dreams yet but I was up early this morning. Just randomly up at 6.30am.

I’ve no laptop yet on a school where teachers teach using their school laptops. So I’m feeling pretty nervous.

I’ve prepped on my own laptop. Probably not don’t enough. Eek, nerves are really setting in.

@Piggywaspushed

Don't forget WHO not just talking about UK there. I assume there are countries that didn't face all that much WW2 disruption....

No, but if he's the head of the WHO Europe region then it won't be true for the countries under his remit.

It's again this continuation of the extremely unhelpful "lost generation" narrative, which, quite frankly, is bullshit.

I’ve no laptop yet on a school where teachers teach using their school laptops. So I’m feeling pretty nervous.
We give our new staff theirs on day one :)

They used to let me drive the artics around the yard

For entertainment, I assume!

@Iamnotthe1

It's again this continuation of the extremely unhelpful "lost generation" narrative, which, quite frankly, is bullshit.

Yes they will be not great at grammar, in a world where most people are already shit at grammar.

I’ll be fine, won’t MrsH no lessons till Thursday, I’ll be fine by then.

Yeah way more disruptive than the Iraq war, or the last time the Taliban took over Afghanistan, or the Rwanda crisis, or the education of Jewish children during the Holocaust or rewriting of the curriculum to complete propaganda under Nazi rule or under communist regimes or or or.... Hmm. Not buying it.

It is a bit of a nightmare giving computers in september if a school laptop is the only way to access department planning and school information etc - been there and it makes the start of term really chaotic but hopefully you're more 'with it' than I was. I had never used half the essential for business software the school used before and was teaching a non specialist subject and didn't have anyone to help me because they were too busy getting the start of a new year sorted themselves. I was trying to work out how to use GO, at that time SMHW and Pupil Passport and all sorts that I needed to know from day one - chaos but go there.

I'll be setting homework for ks4 groups on Seneca and haven't used it before so need to know how to set up classes on there and the whole shebang. I've found an evening online seminar that I 'think' is in the first week back so hopefully that will be helpful because I doubt anyone will have time or patience to properly show me what I need to know at school.

I think that's the only 'new' thing I've got to get to grips with this year in terms of online platforms. Unlike last year where it was like aargh Loom, Google Classroom, Meets etc. We probably underestimate how much most of us had to upskill last year.

Thanks for just demonstrating why a reasonable historical knowledge is important @TheHoneyBadger!

We probably underestimate how much most of us had to upskill last year.

Yes! And the normal CPD didn't stop for us either. It went hardcore again from after Easter. I ran a staff meeting in June on how to use some of the CPD easily - it felt like there was so much of it, it was overwhelming.

I've just seen the weather forecast for September and have bought a load more pairs of tights and a long sleeved dress. Windows open is going to be a challenge again. I haven't even put my boots away ready to take them out again, they are still sitting by the front door. Normally they'd have been well away since end of April.

Work anxiety dreams have started in earnest here too, and I have, as always, decided that I've forgotten how to teach. But the Covid issue is outweighing all of that at the moment.

Can I join? Starting a new school on Wednesday ( my 3rd in 4 years!) but finally on a permanent contract (about blinking time). I know it will all be fine and my new team are so far absolutely lovely but I'm definitely getting the exhausting adrenaline surge every time I think about how intense settling into a new place is. For those who've got it, what is your inset CPD looking like for the next few days?