The Sixtieth Republic - One half term to go - just need to survive Sports Day and Activities Week!

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@shampeepoo

Name changed for this but did any of you who completed GCSE tasks let the pupils go home after the exam to think about it and try again the next day. So they all told each other the answers. So now have a disproportionate number of high GCSE grades.

Oh god no.

Although we did have kids sit exams days after other kids sat the same paper. In theory they could have cheated. But I’ve marked the papers of they cheated they did a piss poor job of it.

We didn't do that in maths.

Other departments did...

rafa??

We did not do that

My friends school didnt either. Some kids actually had three days to sit an exam.

Eg main exam Tuesday. Finish exam Wednesday. Come back again Friday.

So essentially several nights to think about answers.

We had some where they saw the question Monday and structured an answer as a class, then did the assessment on the Tuesday. This dept had to do extra assessments under 'high' control.

@HercwasanEnemyofEducation

We had some where they saw the question Monday and structured an answer as a class, then did the assessment on the Tuesday. This dept had to do extra assessments under 'high' control.

Hmmmm I just don't know As the whole school has done it this way.

Just had a message from nhs offering me the chance to have my second jab earlier... instead of my planned appointment tomorrow morning! 😂

@HobnobbingAboutHobnobs

Just had a message from nhs offering me the chance to have my second jab earlier... instead of my planned appointment tomorrow morning! 😂

Helpful!

@Piggywaspushed

rafa??

Just a hunch piggy. Despite sending so many kids home you know there’ll be a parent insisting their school has no cases.

Oh yes, I see. I did once have a parent local to me on here arguing black was white.

Just had the vaccine station phone me too trying to get DS done tonight or ASAP tomorrow. There is a huge sense of urgency.

Maybe their thought was everyone is going to have high marks and they're all going to be made to mark down so if we have crazy high marks even after being knocked down we'll come out high?

Sounds mental giving them a week of home research to do an assessment.

It's so weird that you're so close and yet things are so different there Piggy.

Several bubbles popped dramatically at my school today. Can’t go into details but staff working across key stages is errrr......maybe not ideal. Who knew

I am tired from my second AZ vacc but nothing like the side effects from the first one, so that’s good. In fact, I might just be tired.

@Piggywaspushed

Just had the vaccine station phone me too trying to get DS done tonight or ASAP tomorrow. There is a huge sense of urgency.

We have a new Walk In vaccination Centre, no appt needed, a few miles away. Booking for 2nd vacc was on a centralised online portal too, not like the first one where the GP phoned you and told you when you were booked in. It was very busy yesterday when I went (GP hub site). Most people were younger than me, so maybe their 1st rather than their 2nd. Lots and lots of info on risk and side effects too. Effectively had to sign a disclaimer saying you had done your research and weighed up the risks.

@TheHoneyBadger

It's so weird that you're so close and yet things are so different there Piggy.

It's like another world. They are acting like it doesn't exist up here.

@shampeepoo I’m guessing you know the answer to this already.....

Hancock’s been suppressing data, a source has told Byline Times (who need some kind of journalism prize, methinks):

mobile.twitter.com/dgurdasani1/status/1403348896504504323?fbclid=IwAR106mztHIjAXkJrwudMpNxMoUN-f-pujM_rBRKlbcJgyU9RpoW9LaPdFU0

20yo dd had hers this afternoon.

Amid some drama! Got home after school to pick her up and take her and as I was waiting for her to get ready dh collapsed!
Just slumped down on himself when sat on the sofa and started making grunting noises. I sat him back in the seat and couldnt wake him for a minute, then it was another minute before he came to properly..

So she was dropped off at the vaccine centre and he at the A&E dept. A cursory check over by the triage nurse and he was sent out again. They are blaming the heat and dehydration. I'd have preferred him to have had a proper checkup but it was a 5 hour wait. So he's home and in bed instead.

Scared the shit out of me and the 2 dds who were in the room at the time.

Bloody hell, DrM, is he getting a second opinion, even if it’s only from his GP asap?

@Piggywaspushed where are you?

I rang his gp who blamed his diabetes....but he isnt medicated and has reversed it with diet so unlikely to be that.

If he so much as twitches this weekend I will have him at out of hours or back to A&E.

Oh goodness DrMadeline, how frightening!

I am in a B hotspot rule...

If he so much as twitches this weekend I will have him at out of hours or back to A&E.
Too right!

Oh my DrMadeline, what a shock you must have all had. Keep a very close eye on him.

I've never ever been this teacher-tired before. All the staff look so done in. We're moving classrooms from Monday and then the following will be general tidying and keeping the kids happy.