The broom cupboard 3 - for briefly stranded republicans

[TheHoneyBadger]

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

Fountain pens were awful as a ledt hander. Biro is much easier. Not smudging everything

@eitak22

I've had issues with those pens when I laminated a piece of work a child did and it all disappeared. Hadn't made the connection they'd used a frixion pen. Did find out that if you put it in a freezer the writing comes back though!

Love the idea of exam scanners chucking stuff in the freezer to see if it's going to come back 😂

We had bottles of ink when I was at school. Recipe for mayhem. I did love filling your pen up though.

This sounds like far too much effort...
edu.rsc.org/ideas/why-i-put-mock-exams-in-the-freezer/3008968.article

@MrsHamlet can you imagine? Trying to fit the exam between the peas and carrots.

And the unidentifiable frozen objects...

Most of my learners did online Maths exams so no pen issues. However the technique for doing an exam this way has to be taught, something my replacement apparently hasn’t yet grasped.

More fool them for letting you go.

Buckle up everyone, they've just approved the vaccines for 12+

www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58547659

You've beaten me to it, noble.

That'll go down well with certain people.

Those pesky militant unions, eh.

Just heard “jabs at secondary schools could start within days”....
I think not!

22nd Sept earliest.

You can fit it in between all the testing.

9 days. Right....

Just posted this on Data:

www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2021/september/primary-school-infection.html?fbclid=IwAR0kM8QUG1cgPMDBCYS1BcszElyZfOxSM195yl05ktUyIseKDnfRG6mLWrM

(Link to paper at bottom)

New model predicts more outbreaks (but this summary says 1% of schools will experience them, which is surely lower than 2020?)

Testing and other measures more effective than bubble quarantining.

Schools could become reservoirs of infection for Delta

I already made the next broom cupboard I think. Where is Staff? Bit worried 😟

Oh good. Nothing potentially risky at all about reservoirs of infection.

Indeed Rafa.

I messaged Staff on here and on Skype on Saturday. No reply...
Maybe she’s gone and got a life

Well I was very excited to see them using the DfE definition of an outbreak because it suggested they understood what it is, but they interpreted it in another different way to any I've seen (and I think theirs is wrong).

"Current Department for Education (DfE) contingency operational guidance for schools [26] defines two thresholds for “extra action” under specific setting conditions and in relation to ‘close mixing’ groups within schools: “5 children, pupils, students or staff, who are likely to have mixed closely, test positive for COVID-19 within a 10-day period; or •10% of children, pupils, students or staff who are likely to have mixed closely test positive for COVID-19 within a 10-day period”. These criteria relate to two completed rounds of tests in an ‘asymptomatic test sites’ regime, initiated only following full return to school; it is not clear if there are criteria for similar actions due to in-school outbreaks under other circumstances."

That's quite some word salad .

@noblegiraffe

Well I was very excited to see them using the DfE definition of an outbreak because it suggested they understood what it is, but they interpreted it in another different way to any I've seen (and I think theirs is wrong).

"Current Department for Education (DfE) contingency operational guidance for schools [26] defines two thresholds for “extra action” under specific setting conditions and in relation to ‘close mixing’ groups within schools: “5 children, pupils, students or staff, who are likely to have mixed closely, test positive for COVID-19 within a 10-day period; or •10% of children, pupils, students or staff who are likely to have mixed closely test positive for COVID-19 within a 10-day period”. These criteria relate to two completed rounds of tests in an ‘asymptomatic test sites’ regime, initiated only following full return to school; it is not clear if there are criteria for similar actions due to in-school outbreaks under other circumstances."

Eh???

Well, it pretty much copies and pastes the DfE, so, y'know my opinion on that!

Where they say 'the criteria relate to two completed rounds of tests', I don't think that's true. I think test results from in school testing don't count towards the threshold.

Well I tried to read Jan's paper but I got stuck on the idea that if there are 5 cases in a class then it is more likely to be community infection than in class transmission.

Five cases and they all caught it elsewhere instead of from the kids they're with all day?

It's like a record the scientist have got stuck on.

Yes I read that para too and thought “what?” to the last bit. They’ve definitely misinterpreted it haven’t they - because by definition the children haven’t been together to transmit to each other when they have the in school tests, well certainly for the first one.

Unless those Bristol scientists are doing a special study at piggy’s school???