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.

Oh Jan, what’s that lovely perfume you’re wearing? It smells kind of tropical… 🏝

@MrsHerculePoirot I also get WGAC.

However only the premium (bamboo) stuff - the recycled was a bit too…virtuous for us.

It is good & I love the subscription for the ease of not having to think about it but that said I’m not sure their environmental / ethical aspects are really as good as they claim. It’s all shipped from China for a start. I’m planning to switch to Boxroll which is U.K. manufactured & no separate wrapping for each roll once our current stock is running low.

Which bit of Jan are you smelling noble ??!

, that would be the worry with scented bum roll wouldn’t it? That you’d be sat in a staff meeting and someone would say ‘why does it smell of Malibu in here?’

Just checking in and everyone is sniffing each other?

Has end of term madness set in.

Had this email from our deputy. To fellow secondary teachers it really hammers home how much we have done and how much those bloody exam boards haven’t!

“As the clock reaches 4.20pm on the 18th June we have successfully uploaded all of the Teacher Assessed Grades for years 11 and 13. To do this as a staff we have marked approximately 5406 scripts and made 1809 grading decisions.

This has been a massive team effort from everyone in the school from the teachers that marked and determined grades or supported a colleague by covering or helping them whilst they did this, to the non-teaching staff who have photocopied scripts, supported students and undertaken data entry and checks.”

Not so much as an acknowledgment of the teacher workload at my place!

@motherrunner

Just checking in and everyone is sniffing each other?

Has end of term madness set in.

Had this email from our deputy. To fellow secondary teachers it really hammers home how much we have done and how much those bloody exam boards haven’t!

“As the clock reaches 4.20pm on the 18th June we have successfully uploaded all of the Teacher Assessed Grades for years 11 and 13. To do this as a staff we have marked approximately 5406 scripts and made 1809 grading decisions.

This has been a massive team effort from everyone in the school from the teachers that marked and determined grades or supported a colleague by covering or helping them whilst they did this, to the non-teaching staff who have photocopied scripts, supported students and undertaken data entry and checks.”

It’s sobering isn’t it? Our school gave us a free cookie from the canteen to say thank you.

Don’t know whether to laugh or cry (but am thankful for the acknowledgment as I know we are broke as a school -they we’re lovely cookies)

Shame we couldn’t eat them together and instead in our own classrooms/offices/cupboards…

@MrsHerculePoirot

Love it rule!

@DreamingofBrie I’ve been considering trying them but didn’t know anyone who used them! Might give it a go if you say they are ok!

They are ok! Very reliable so I never had the loo roll panic of 2020, as they prioritised subscriptions over new buyers. Price wise, probably not the cheapest but the packaging is all recyclable, which I like. Not your triple velvet, but perfectly fine in terms of thickness and comfort. You can also postpone shipments if you don't need them yet.

The recycled costs £36/48 rolls and the bamboo costs £40/48 rolls (actually, tempted to change my next shipment, it's so silky ).

They're an Australian company, so I'm not sure where the loo roll is made and shipped from, though.

The email is lovely - would have preferred chocolates or wine ... or the bloody exam boards’ fees!

[quote Floobydo]@MrsHerculePoirot I also get WGAC.

However only the premium (bamboo) stuff - the recycled was a bit too…virtuous for us.

It is good & I love the subscription for the ease of not having to think about it but that said I’m not sure their environmental / ethical aspects are really as good as they claim. It’s all shipped from China for a start. I’m planning to switch to Boxroll which is U.K. manufactured & no separate wrapping for each roll once our current stock is running low.[/quote]
This is good to know - let me know how you find Boxroll?

We got a chocolate biscuit each.

@MrsHamlet

We got a chocolate biscuit each.

Bourbon or digestive @MrsHamlet?

A knock off version of a penguin.

A seal bar?

This is one of my favourite Foil Arms and Hogg videos (they’re the ones who did the maths class via zoom skit at the start of the pandemic, I’ve been watching their stuff ever since)

I love an Aldi/Lidl ‘knock off’ - as long as I get the same gram for gram I don’t care!

I thought you’d been starting threads again noble, but it turns out someone else has done the job for you. I assume the thread about the DfE guidance is going as expected.

I was ahead of the curve with my school thread a couple of weeks ago…anyone starting a thread now about covid in schools is a mere pretender

I bet there are some posters out there with a ‘pack it in Noble’ post ready typed before they clock it’s not me.

“And instead of Hula Hoops we have - Hoops.”

Genius.

We use WGAC too. Might get the bamboo next time. The normal is fine and has the benefit they donate to building toilets in developing world too.

Fell asleep at 9pm again!

On the back of this thread, I have just changed my next WGAC shipment to bamboo roll. Clearly I need to be getting on with my reports though!

I’ve ordered some bamboo! @Floobydo do report back about boxroll though. I’m weirdly fussy about my toilet paper though so not sure if I’m going to like the change 🤣🤣🤣

On an entirely different note, Young Minds are running a campaign in England to contact your MP to ask for funding for hubs to support early mental health interventions in children and young people act.youngminds.org.uk/fund-the-hubs

We have received nothing about tags from our SLT. An email would have been nice. Biscuits in the staff room or chocolates nicer. Or a bottle of wine …

No we have nothing just bloody sports day to get through

We've been thanked verbally but nothing else.
So many hours of writing, marking, grading, ranking, regrading, worrying.....

We've been thanked verbally. That's it.

SLT have no idea how long it has taken to TAG as only one of them had a GCSE class....