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.

Sorry staff!

My nicest group has become my naughtiest group. I was obviously too nice to them. The groups I disliked and was probably meaner to are mostly lovely now 🤷‍♀️

Anyway the day is done. We finish at 2.50 since October half term when we axed our break. That’s one whole school on this thread of how ever many. Widespread? Hardly.

We sent year 9 home P3 after 'more than one positive' and advice from PHE.

I was covering an RE lesson at the time. Turns out they'd done the main task the previous lesson, not sure what happened there. We watched (the go-to of all science teachers) David Attenborough for the last half hour instead.

I'm still here nob. Need a better name change when I have some brain power.

I don't care what ofqual do, it can't be worse than this year. Ps. Please leave maths as it is!

We never did send our year 9 home. Had that pointless testing farce instead.

I'm still here nob

Suddenly I wish you weren’t

I’ve often wondered who the mysterious Herc is. The only Herc I know was from The Wire.

It’s National Thank a Teacher day today. How are you all managing to get your towering piles of presents and cards home from school?

We're doing the pointless testing farce now piggy. I think MrsH is too, as we're the same county. We tested years 10 and 12 today, will do 8&9 tomorrow, and I assume year 7 will be done on Friday. We're doing it in form, break and lunch so it doesn't impact learning time. Except, that meant year 10, who were doing theirs at lunchtime today, missed their actual lunch!!! Nobody had told the canteen staff that they would be late, so they stopped serving at the same time the normally would, even though year 10 hadn't been fed, poor kids. Year 8 are doing theirs at lunchtime tomorrow and are now leaving lessons 15 minutes early so they can eat first. I wish they'd just allowed us a full day off timetable so each yeargroup could have a full lesson to do their covid tests, rather than messing around trying to do it outside of lesson times.

Evening all! More on ONOB’s noble campaign, including that Nicola Sturgeon thought the song was a spoof when she heard it....

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57579002

🎁

Thank you teachers. I’ll say it if nobody else will.

The people I supervise seem to have decided to turn into stroppy teenagers. I don’t do stroppy, gobby teens, and I’ve run out of eye rolls

I’m not convinced the whole end isolation for schools kids is going to end in the way MNers are assuming. Especially because most teachers are still only partially vaccinated.

Ah, I see U4Ters have started a Rosemary Leonard fan club.

I have not heard of any class being sent home because of one case?

Another favourite is no testing without symptoms so I am not sure how plans to test daily if in contact will go down with this bunch.

A woman on the government briefing literally just said we needed more symptomless testing.

These people just want kids left altogether alone, I guess. They have no other suggestions.

I don’t want a thank-you from Gav The Muppet given the damaged he has wrecked upon Education since he has been in office.

That wanker was encouraging parents to call OFSTED six months ago!

Shame on those people who vote for him.

@motherrunner

www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-57528279

The next big thing - no isolations of school pupils.

Ahem - need to pass this onto the Head

Not in secondary,Piggy. I’m fairly sure that it is the case in primary.

But then no masks and no expectation of even attempting social distancing at all anywhere. So attempting to figure out close contacts is a bit of a nightmare.

No masks or social.diatancing in secondary either...

We send whole class home for one positive case in lower school as they are literally breathing the same air in tiny classrooms for 5.5 hours a day. In many cases a second or third case had occurred once they're home, so it works.

SOrry, had to get off the bus and pressed post to soon.

There’s none of that in secondary, but from what I can see primaries are acting as normal with the kids moving around the classroom lots and moving from tables to carpet as they normally would.

Primary cases always seem to burst the whole class every time.

A school near to me has 8 bubbles out (8 classes) a positive case in each class. Thats the most I've heard off so far.

Tomorrow is the last day! Woohoo!

Let us all just get to 1pm without any isolations. Praying to every and any god or deity

We're looking at reverting to normal in Sept. Planning in case we're allowed.

30 mins am break + 45 lunch

Or

15 min am break + 60 lunch

Hope all Scots colleagues make it safely (with no enforced singing of British songs!)

Are most schools planning for no bubbles in Sept (/Aug!)?

I've lost track, are we allowed to sing? We haven't been anyway.

We aren't planning anything HT says we'll see where we are in August. Scotland's tier 0 is August 9th and we go back the 12th. Who knows.

Testing the contacts with pcr is likely raising cases.
It is silly complaining of all the kids off when more the q is how have we let 1/4m kids be exposed to covid.
Or how has government let it get so out of control again.
Why havent they offered it to 12+.

Ks3 whole bubble (form group) goes home here again. Used to be only close contacts but local health are encouraging more caution.

2 bubbles gone today.

Oophs we have all been sent home to work remotely for two days whilst the site is fogged and deep cleaned

Chaos I tell you chaos

Yikes.

Oophs we have all been sent home to work remotely for two days whilst the site is fogged and deep cleaned

Well at least they are doing something. Even if it looks a lot like closing the door after the horse has bolted.