The broom cupboard 3 - for briefly stranded republicans

[TheHoneyBadger]

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

Yep, pretty much fully back to normal here-it’s like a parallel universe.
Typical that the weather should be so hot again today here-didn’t miss those sweaty year 11s period 5 this summer that’s for sure!
More and more testing positive for Covid (quite a lot of Year 7s today which meant teaching on Teams whilst teaching our classes was tricky as the new Year 7s haven’t had training yet.)
Definitely a baptism of fire today. Currently putting feet up

@Mistressiggi

Forget about that wee trip up to the festival Noble.

I apologise to all Scots for suggesting that covid measures in schools were a sign of weakness.

We have long memories. We still wang on about Bannockburn.

Will let you off with it this time, given previous good behaviour

We're day 3 with kids today. Heat didn't help, but they were all a write off by 2pm. I just stopped teaching and we went into the school library before anyone else nabbed it. Lay around on the floor reading books for an hour.

What is a noun? A sea of completely blank faces apart from one keen bean who seems to have a year 6 brain in a year 3 body.

Yay for the library rule

@Piggywaspushed

Piggy digs around in cupboard for stiletto knife .

I saw Bob heading towards the head's office with that... I didn't bother to intervene

Potential ‘lockdown’ over an extended (for most schools) October half term:

inews.co.uk/news/covid-lockdown-government-plans-october-firebreak-restrictions-hospital-admissions-1185533?fbclid=IwAR2z2KPgk8O2lAEQSilr4AuB77BxX6uuvgV_tgqNuKNmHR0cIadEiK4X5l4

Given the current infection rates in schools and the lack of mitigation measures, a two week half term on its own would make a tiny difference to rates in kids.

And they’ve left it too late to vaccinate.

But with other measures too?? Plus reintroducing masks and distancing in a few weeks? Although I can’t see backbenchers ‘allowing’ any of it.

Many private schools have this anyway.

These circuit breaks only work coupled with a lockdown. No point if people are going to charge off on cheaper holidays.

We had other measures in July and that didn’t stop infection rates in kids going up and up.

True re July.

My issues with October 'circuit break':

I want to go away in October half term to Greece
Many schools have this anyway (or a 10 day break)
No one will stick to it now
What about my hair cut?

Infection rates in kids didn’t come down nearly as much over the summer as they should have done. If there was a lockdown it would need to be a strict one to be short and effective and I can’t see the appetite for that in 7 weeks? Depends on how it goes with hospitals - things would have to be very obviously bad and in the news.

And at what point can the government admit concern about infections in kids if they’ve removed mitigations and not vaccinated them?

Never?

Exactly. No extended half term for us!

www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/06/uk-vaccine-advisers-acted-like-medical-regulators-covid-jabs-children-neil-ferguson

Potential ‘lockdown’ over an extended (for most schools) October half term

Summer didn’t drop levels by nearly enough, not sure what 2 weeks in October is going to do.

We have zero Covid measures. One of my own children has a classmate who has tested positive. I’m teaching kids whose sibling has got it. Only a matter of time till I bring it home. Sigh.

DfEguidance to accompany the CO2 monitors is out.

Haven’t read it yet, but two people on Parents United (ones who do sound like they have the technical knowledge), are saying the “safe” limits are much too high and contradict what SAGE have said.

drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/12cU_I5q0v1_my97yPMpb87RsSL5d5lpj?fbclid=IwAR1YybHTbpBuGHOPRhzaRykzK8-iAvBP2Yc-_kD6dUoZXPLY5yiQ57eoq-I

Note even if it's way to high "there is no need to stop using the room"
Unions might think differently about that

Not even the maths teachers, Mistress

So what do they suggest if it’s too high? (I couldn’t open the manual, just the delivery schedule).