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

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Thanks so much Brie and Mrs HerculeP that was exactly what I was looking for! I’m not a natural at maths but love teaching it. Thanks for the welcomes also. Weirdly, I feel like I’ve known you all for years!

@CallmeHendricks

Hello, *@woodman88*. Welcome. I'm the one who never swears or gets banned.

And I'm the quiet one...

Hi @woodman88!

Wow I never quite realised how Maths-heavy the Republic is.

672 div 21 I'd just do by getting counters, exchanging, more counters, get cross because I've run out of 10s, but more exchanging with some drawn in whiteboard pen, smudge that, lose concentration.....

... use bus stop. 21 into 67, rem 4, 21 into 42.

But the first one in year 3. Ha.

Altogether now... We are Britain and we have one dream.

And yes, I have just woken up at 4am with that going round in my head.

Well done to the DfE for managing to get Hitler Youth trending on twitter.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9714945/Primary-school-children-taught-stage-climate-change-protests-teachers-say.html

Who are these teachers? 🤔

@Piggywaspushed

Apparently written by Bradford schoolchildren...

It was genuinely written by one specific school in Bradford (I know the school).

OBON day is something that a lot of Yorkshire schools are involved with this year, at the request of the LAs. It was started by Kash Singh (former police inspector and founder of the British Indian Foundation) in Bradford as a way to try and promote tolerance and an understanding that cultural differences don't mean that someone cannot be British too.

Nice aims but the way it goes about it somethings is a little short sighted 😂

Sometimes not somethings
You can tell I'm so tired...

I can’t work out if I’ve raised a genius or a maniac!
A genius!

Can we sing the republic song instead of that utter shite? I'm sure we had one...

Anyway, I thought we couldn’t sing in schools?

@motherrunner

Anyway, I thought we couldn’t sing in schools?

Schools are exempt from the restrictions in indoor singing now.

Ah, well let’s belt that bad boy out then!

Covid doesn't get in schools, you know that.

Talking about the Republic being maths-heavy, where is @HercwasanEnemyofEducation?

In fairness, we're singing every day now to learn the songs for our production.

We’re back to singing being banned as a Covid risk. We could Whisper Sing it, I suppose, but that would make it sound even more creepy than it does already.

Is that a local restriction or a school-based one? Just incase we go into local restrictions are cases are rising in our local city centre.

Wasn't the Republic song a fantastic parody of living next door to Alice? But instead it was "where the fuck is gavin"?

herc name changed, but is still here noble, don't worry.

Welcome @woodman88 I'm the one who never touches the chocolate biscuits

DH was spewing bile at a doctor on telly this morning who was saying schools 'need to get back to normal'. I didn't see it : did anyone else?

Oh there’s me not paying attention MsAwesome thanks.

Oh just seen it on BBC website - it was Rosemary Leonard. Never liked her much.

When GPs get back to work themselves seeing all of us face to face, then I might pay attention.

@katherineofgaunt did the Republic Gav song.