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

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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 for school staff to let off steam.

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. Finally, upload your covid test results twice a week on Wednesdays and Sundays.

result @MrsHamlet - I found being on SLT a real drain. Though the money was decent it just ate into my free time and stress levels soared.

I think I'd realised that on interview day, staff
All the strategic stuff gets buried in the grind... I've tried to get a meeting with my boss all week and something has got in her way every time. I find that enormously stressful.

All the good bits of the job I applied for but without being on SLT

Amazing, Congrats. I had a job like that in my old school, but mat leave put paid to it.

Fantastic news @MrsHamlet! Very well deserved

I almost never have time alone. I don't actually know what I'd do with myself if I did. DH's shifts mean that he starts and finishes early - historically this has worked well for us as I could take care of mornings and school drop offs and he could take care of pickup and afternoons.

@ChloeDecker

Yeah, the South East is just silly money compared to that! Could by a few houses in cash with what we’ve spent on one house with a massive mortgage but then, you wouldn’t want shed loads of Londoners moving North spoiling all that

True but apparently they will with the Treasury opening up here.

@ChloeDecker

Yeah, the South East is just silly money compared to that! Could by a few houses in cash with what we’ve spent on one house with a massive mortgage but then, you wouldn’t want shed loads of Londoners moving North spoiling all that

The north don't need to worry about that. Covid seems to have made them all decide to move to the SW. It's pushing the house prices up quickly just as I'm looking to buy.

Congratulations on the new role MrsH.

Fabulous! Congrats, MrsH 👏

Well done @MrsHamlet!

Congrats on the promotion, Mrs! Is a Lead Practitioner like the old AST?

MsAwesomeDragon you picked up teaching FM A-level recently didn't you? Any tips for someone looking forward to a summer of learning hard maths?

Thread on trending complaining about all the Londoners moving to Manchester.

Congrats Mrs H that's bloody fantastic!

Brilliant MrsH! Really pleased for you.

Noble my only tips (after having to upskill for science) is find really good youtuber teachers who explain things brilliantly. I don't get it though because you are a Maths teacher already - unless you really are a secret English teacher?

Thank you all :) it was totally unexpected ... HT is not known for doing things like that so I just gawped at him!
When we go on our world tour, we can drink to my HT not always being a knob.
It is, noble. It's actually the job I'm doing now but with more weight behind it. I think it'll help when I'm working with staff who need support - in the past, there's been a "why is an English teaching telling a science teacher what to do" thing. I don't tell people what to do (unless they really piss me off) but this should help.

Congratulations MrsH. Fantastic news and a role I'd love (in the right school!).

Congratulations MrsH

noble it wasn't the further maths I picked up, just A Level applied, which I'd never even learned, let alone taught. My recommendation would be, do every exercise in the textbooks, use YouTube for things you aren't sure of, and ask whoever currently teaches it at your school for help when your answers don't match the answers at the back.

Congratulations MrsH! Application form is done, I’ll waffle on in the cover letter later, and decide whether or not to hit send before I go to bed. It has been nice remembering I can teach though whilst going through it all!

@noblegiraffe

Thread on trending complaining about all the Londoners moving to Manchester.

Londoners often get the blame

Here they are buying without viewing. Stuff goes up online and it's sold within 24 hours. It's mental and the prices are shooting up because people can put whatever price they want on it and it sells.

Quickie! I need your help.
In middle of tipsy Covid debate and DH doesn't believe LFTs are only 50% accurate.
Help me out here!!!
Please

Congratulations!!

@CallmeHendricks

Quickie! I need your help. In middle of tipsy Covid debate and DH doesn't believe LFTs are only 50% accurate. Help me out here!!! Please

Tell him this!

^one study by researchers at the University of Oxford and Public Health England’s Porton Down lab found the LFTs were more accurate in the hands of skilled scientists, picking up 79% of Covid cases, than self-trained members of the public, who detected 58% of Covid cases.
Estimates for these rates vary. However, according to the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), and comparing results against those obtained by PCR testing, the false positive rate for LFTs is fewer than one in 1,000, while the false negative rate could be as high as 50%.^

www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/15/what-is-lateral-flow-covid-test-how-accurate

I knew I could rely on the republic! Thanks Chloe.

I've got the dread about this week. Behaviour will be awful, staff are all falling apart (irrespective of behaviour), reports to write, assessment week. Just aaagh.

Congratulations Mrs H!!