The Sixty-Second Republic - Pop da pop pop, the beat don't stop until the break of term

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I wonder what we will have after tsars?

Revolution?!

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This happened at my school last Nov and Dec. We had year groups on a rota but still we closed twice fully. Didn’t make any news.

I can't believe what I've just read!!! Snogging Gav!!!! 🤮🤮🤮🤮 And I agree that Gove should definitely be asexual.

My year 10s regularly accuse me of treating them like dogs as I often need to say "sit, stay" which should really be the bare minimum of expectations yet they haven't mastered it (puppy is better than some of my year 10).

R4’s Dead Ringers was v funny tonight re Matt Hancock, and there was mention of Gav living in Boris’s understairs cupboard.....

@MrsHamlet

Bob would not enjoy that. The whistling... really?!

I read that as if teachers will have whistles like the PE teachers!

I read that as if teachers will have whistles like the PE teachers

Don’t teachers still have whistles in primary? I have very vivid memories of teachers blowing the whistle at playtime and we all had to freeze. Obviously I’m deeply traumatised from this experience

I wonder what we will have after tsars?

Gulags instead of detention.

DH has just had a ruck with soem burly blokes over the fence. Their kids and some other kids were 'playing football' which consisted of screaming at the tops of their lungs. For nearly an hour.

This is after an hour of listening to the other, smaller children earlier this evening having constant tantrums and telling on each other.

Literally no one tells their kids to be quiet anymore do they??

I have a whistle. Last year I had an asd child who like to lick it if he could get close enough.

Whistle permanently attached to my lanyard here for duties.

I'm sitting in a dark ice skating disco while dd does her hobby before getting s covid test in the morning and self isolating before a biopsy on tues pm. 2 days off school feels weird. But I have enough SLT.paperwork to fill my time.

Still bloosy chuckling at some of the.niggets from the final growing up talk where they.saw the development.of a baby in a diagram of the female anatomy. One of the boys asked in horror
"How does it fit through THERE?"

I see the DfE is trying to whip up parental support by spamming FB with feeds about whole bubbles not needing to isolate. What do they think that will achieve other than antagonism to schools from parents?

As far as I see it :-

-bubbles aren't really a thing in secondary. Where a whole year group is termed a bubble, they are very very rarely sent home as a first measure. Even TeacherTapp doesn't seem to get this.

-primary schools are fucked.

So tired today. I just haven't got the energy. We now have one year group totally out, 2 with large chucks SI.

My brain feels utterly, utterly frazzled

It is wonderful that the DfE have got money to spend on advertising, Christmas overtime payments etc. How about they start to support schools?

I don't have a whistle. I have a very loud voice instead.

I have scary eyes, apparently

Almost time to head to the broom cupboard!

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/the_staffroom/4261841-The-broom-cupboard-3-for-briefly-stranded-republicans

I have a whistle; the Acme Thunderer and it hurts your ears.

I only use it to underline the end of recess/lunch.

I have a whistle (I umpire sports out of school)
Tis also an Acme thunderer and used for break & lunchtime ending.

I feel v important when I get it use it 🤣

Martine Mccutcheon on Gogglebox just mentioned how she loves coconut scented quilted toilet paper. She'd fit in well here.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/the_staffroom/4286772-The-Sixty-Third-Republic-as-we-glide-into-staycations-the-DfE-whip-up-anti-school-media-storm?watched=1&msgid=108729813#108729813

Ready and waiting

@RuleWithAWoodenFoot

Martine Mccutcheon on Gogglebox just mentioned how she loves coconut scented quilted toilet paper. She'd fit in well here.

Didn’t realise that was a thing. Waitrose?

"Literally no one tells their kids to be quiet anymore do they??"

I bloody do.

I have the glare that makes princess stop scooting to close on her pink scooter in the supermarket on a Friday. I am ‘the scary lady wearing the mask’