The Sixty Third Republic - as we glide into staycations the DfE whip up anti-school media storm

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On a musical note, I’ve been doing Chris Moyles maths starters with mine recently, where the likes of One Direction and Lethal Bizzle (?!) sing a series of calculations.

I picked my first strawberries and raspberries of the year from the garden yesterday. 2 of each.
The rhubarb is growing like a weed though...

Ooh the jam making sounds good.

There’s a mad rumour I might find out my timetable for my new school on Friday. Very exciting times.

In other news shit loads of year 7s out isolating.

I don’t like jam.

@noblegiraffe

I don’t like jam.

Jam, gin, gherkins... I'm not sure we can be friends.

Jam (not envy).

My class are obsessed. Any opportunity to have some and it's consumed like it's something they've been denied their whole lives. We went through so much during SATs breakfast club. Yuck.

Can someone confirm I’m not losing the plot here? (Well I might be but that’s besides the point)

If covid is going to look just like a normal flu season in terms of hospital admissions, then your new normal is about twice the number of admissions you’d normally expect isn’t it? Obviously there might be a bit of overlap but they don’t really cancel each other out do they?

Yes, this is what I don't get either!

You're not losing it Rafal

Admissions would be higher annually and this will be particularly true for those unfortunate people who get both the flu and coronavirus given how the first would make them more vulnerable to the second.

What he is saying is also ignoring the fact that the vaccinations are less effective in those who were already vulnerable which, again, will play havoc with admissions during winter.

It's also ignoring the fact that those who end up with long Covid may well find themselves CV or CEV once their 'natural immunity' wears off. Each year, we'd have a growing number of CV and CEV people, including children.

Brie hate to break it to you, but I don’t like Brie either!

Maybe they’re hoping for a bumper flu vaccination take-up.

Don't like brie?!! Flippin' heck!!
Send all the jam, gin and brie to me i'm a human dustbin and this is why I'm fat

You don't like Brie

Good job you like maths otherwise we would not be friends.

I also don't understand the winter thing. Perhaps the hope is people vulnerable to flu will also be covid vulnerable and somehow the same number of people who get flu now will be half flu half covid. Logically that doesn't really seem to make sense.

Mmmmmm..... cheese.

I don't like Brie unless it's hard and fridge cold, which makes me very common.

Jam , meh. On a scone.

Gin, at Christmas.

Good job you like maths otherwise we would not be friends.

Secret English teacher though.

I once picked up what I thought was a ham and cheese toastie in Costa and actually it was brie and cranberry and that was the worst thing that has ever happened to me.

Looks like my invite to the Enemies of Education meet-up has just been rescinded :(

Cheese does not go with fruit. No no no.

I dipped some apple slices in Philadelphia today and it was a revelation

Oooh, scientist on BBC just said schools breaking up is good news because 'that's where the majority of transmission is occurring' and transmission amongst children 'goes flat' when they aren't in school because they aren't mixing as much.

He went on to say we could 'get into semantics about whether they bring it in from the community or take it back. To be honest, it is probably a mixture of both.' At last!

@Piggywaspushed

Oooh, scientist on BBC just said schools breaking up is good news because 'that's where the majority of transmission is occurring' and transmission amongst children 'goes flat' when they aren't in school because they aren't mixing as much.

He went on to say we could 'get into semantics about whether they bring it in from the community or take it back. To be honest, it is probably a mixture of both.' At last!

It’s like we are finally being heard/acknowledged. I just wish these people would shout louder for us and our children.

@MrsHamlet

Cheese does not go with fruit. No no no.

Cheese and grapes (with a glass of Port)

Bliss.

@noblegiraffe

I once picked up what I thought was a ham and cheese toastie in Costa and actually it was brie and cranberry and that was the worst thing that has ever happened to me.

Do you like Marmite, noble?!

Checking back in after a weekend of drinking way too much wine and eating way too much. Have my first twilight as an ECT tomorrow if i can fit through the door

The talk of jam just reminded me I have scones to use and some raspberry gin jam in the fridge.

Around here we seem to have children self isolating all over the place. Praying that we get to the end of term without my children's bubbles going.