The Sixty-fourth Republic - good luck to those still gliding towards the holidays especially after euro final

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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.

We are still waiting advice on chairs and masks but keep the windows open. You don’t have to upload LFT results during the holidays.Do not sit on the chairs and do wear a mask.

I've been dutifully remote teaching kids at home who log into teams at the same time as teaching the ones in class.

Barely any of them have been logging in.

I'm sending work to whole classes if there are any in there who are isolating. So she might have struck lucky if that had been your system. But nobody is getting any live lessons at our place, regardless of the reasons they're off, they get a video and a worksheet, or even just a task with an explanation to keep them busy for an hour.

Parents definitely don't understand how long it takes to set meaningful work for absent children

@MrsHamlet

Callme - that is sick and wrong! When do you go back?

Inset on 1st Sept. Kids in 2nd.

Another Thursday here. But I think we may be playing Last Man Standing.

"Parents definitely don't understand how long it takes to set meaningful work for absent children"

Especially in the last week of the year.

We all have to do 190 pupil days. How is this possible that you're still going next week?

We're teetering on a cliff edge at our place, infections-wise. Child in class's family all testing as have symptoms.... Waiting to hear.

@MrsHamlet, I suppose we must have had the odd extra day earlier in the year.
I wonder this every year, but it does work out the same, apart from those lucky buggers who can wangle a few Inset days as Twilights.

Lost a couple of kids mid morning when their (unrelated) parents called to say that they (the parent) had to go get a test. Will see if they return before the end of the week!

I'm in next week too

But if we have to isolate, how the hell are we meant to send meaningful tasks home? Tidy your tray? Wash out the paint pots. Do this wordsearch. watch this video

only a bit

We had two INSETs this year and the rest as twilight. Same next year although I'm still fighting over the 189 days.

We’re in next week too…. 😱😱😱 although attendance is falling as more and more get sent home…

Another one in next week - rudely until Friday!

Some people only had a 6 week term before Easter and some of us had 7 weeks as a I recall and some people are getting 2 weeks off in October.

It all evens out somehow.

No drinking in the week rule introduced before the end of term is just silly surely? I've even given up on my no beer because I'm trying to lose weight commitment in the last couple of weeks. All bets are off bar making it to the end of term without being sacked.

I've set an 'isolation task' for all my classes that says 'we're done, all you're missing is fun practicals and any tests you haven't done, go outside and think about biology, go in the kitchen and think about chemistry, go in the bathroom and think about density and sinking and floating, revise if you've got any tests you still need to do'.

I'm leaving though and our SLT are crap so if they bring it up they'll get a few choice pointers by return email.

Bubbles are bursting left, right and centre at work - will there be anyone left by the time we eventually break up next week?!

Nice to know this ex teacher and member of the Select Committee has such a positive view of teachers:

www.tes.com/news/out-touch-neu-leader-bats-away-call-resign

His rhetoric sounds familiar...

Jan that’s rubbish. Hope they do well at it, with their admin experience

I am in next week ... for 2 days, if I don't catch Covid from DD in the meantime.

I'd quite like to say a proper goodbye to my class, but i doubt many will be in next week anyway.

He could just read the Daily Mail, piggy

Dunno why the TES would give him airtime. What a twat.

Yes, I did wonder why the TES was even reporting it.

I'm in next week until Wednesday.

Parents definitely don't understand how long it takes to set meaningful work for absent children

Almost impossible right now. I've got one child off all week, I went through his maths assessment and set him work on his gaps. Still took me an hour to sort out and it was easy. His mum was almost pathetically grateful to see me when I turned up at their house this morning. She was full PPEd up to open the door. Bless. Think she just wanted a chat.

I did a fuck up today. Had to phone 3 parents to explain. My opening line was "Hi, it's Mrs Rule. I'm sorry but I've made a mistake... " At the end, one of them said 'thank you for owning up, it's not an issue.. rare that anyone owns up to anything these days...'

So that was nice.

What was that particular MP doing during the pandemic?

Mine was actually working at a food delivery place, pretty much all week every week, doing shifts. I don't like him, the Tory twat but can't accuse him of not pulling his weight.

That MP is deluded if he thinks that teachers were the only ones criticising. Plenty of action brought about by Unison, Unite, RMT and BMA to name but a few. The gaslighting is strong with this one.