The Sixty-First Republic - Covid the gift that keeps giving even in the last half term!

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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.

I see they’ve wheeled out Carl ‘we’ve reached herd immunity, there’ll be no second wave’ Heneghan as an expert.

Yup

Ah, it’s me still not understanding false positivity rates at low prevalence levels (despite the best efforts of noble and others!). The 60% was a result of the low prevalence rates in March and the large numbers of students tested.

We might as well just have dropped a covid bomb in the school today. It's pissing it down; the kids are all inside , shouting , screaming, pretending they don't need masks 'because eating', all inside a cramped space with windows closed.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Semple and co.

Just a thought but anxious parents who don't want kids in school but are afraid of fines could have just said their children tested positive which would also partly explain why they didn't bother to follow up with pcr. Not saying huge numbers but home testing gave the perfect answer to those with vulnerable household members or those who didn't feel school was safe but didn't want to be fined.

So nice to get home today. Constant rain and soaked kids and general air of madness at school today. So glad it's the weekend.

Primary colleagues.... does anyone have these books? I'm trying to put together a scheme of work for literacy intervention for ks3 and wondered if these were any good. They're blooming expensive!

No, sorry MrsH never heard of them. I can't find any reviews online but have noticed that they were published before the new curriculum. They could still be relevant though.

Yes honey but it only works for two weeks?

I've never hear of them MrsH. Lexis Power Up has some go resources for literacy intervention though, and I found The Writing Revolution quite useful for different ways to do the same things.

Dds y11 induction day cancelled for the large 6th form college.
Not entirely surprised.

Oh how I wish ours would be cancelled. For entirely selfish reasons. I have to teach 9 extra lessons!

I like the writing revolution but I've not heard of lexis power up... I'll check it out.
Whatever I write as a scheme of work has I'd be deliverable by whichever poor sod gets lumbered with teaching out of subject. The pe teacher doing maths intervention is not a happy chappy!

I don't think anywhere else is doing transition days...totally against the guidance!

I asked to see the risk assessment for ours three days ago & the head hasn't even replied. It's meant to be going ahead next week

@stationview local PH office - anonymously even - or would everyone know it was “that member of staff”?!

Had for gotten how you feel your life’s on hold when awaiting PCR results.... 😔

@JanFebAnyMonth, the HT would know it was me. If she persists in her crazy idea of holding an outdoor Speech Day then I will be ringing PHE anonymously.

Do you have an union rep in school @StationView? If not, contact your branch

I am the union rep

www.tes.com/news/covid-schools-told-plan-more-remote-learning?fbclid=IwAR2ZRMQ-Ur7jYDFLXP_xFGCqMC7JwNAAIt93jjgHG-_5gruqbZTN-Js9Jko

Ah. Then they should know better than to mess with you! If I asked the branch person to, I know she'd make a call to the HT to point out how stupid he was. She'd probably also call the health protection team in our behalf.

So what does yr union say?

You beat me to it Piggy.

Just off to see if U4T twitter has discovered the story yet.

My PCR has come back negative. Not heard of any positives yet.

I love the fact that in the new contingency framework for primary schools, YR, 1 and 2 must still be allowed to attend school in full.

I ca see that working really well for infection control in areas with infant schools....