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

[StaffRepFeistyClub]

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.

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.

And I would also add any girl with the hypenised Ann or Lou. Chelsie-Ann was NOT a nice girl. Nor was Kelcie-Lou. Or any of their many hyphenised family members.

Does anyone else look down the register list for the new y7s and have the ability to pick out the "high profile" students based on name only? Occasionally I miss some but I've never been wrong!

@Hercisback

Does anyone else look down the register list for the new y7s and have the ability to pick out the "high profile" students based on name only? Occasionally I miss some but I've never been wrong!

I love that game!

So it’s going beyond “schools are safe” to “schools exist in a parallel universe where no close contacts of a positive Covid case are known to exist”.

She wears the make-up, we tell her to wash it off, she strops off to the girls toilets and comes out ten minutes later looking mutinous. A bit like this but more teenage (and less green)

And they won't even tell the school someone is positive so they could just rock up on Monday if their parents don't fancy them staying at home anyway. They'll advise parents that they 'should' let school know - not must, should.

Close contact will only be if you've had something like a sleepover?!

They literally gonna let schools be rife with covid.

I’d forgotten about Alfies. Agree about the anger issues.

I always had problems with Jacobs. The 3 girls with attitude are all some combination of Ella/Ellie. Especially if double barrelled with something else.

I've got my first Alfie next year. I shall be on guard!

We’ve already got parents pulling kids out because it’s not safe. Well they ain’t seen nothing yet.

Booty. I will say no more.
If you played it you will know what I mean!

@noblegiraffe

Where known the contact details of the identified close contacts will be passed to T&T. By the infected person.

What if they don’t know the contact details? What if they only have the contact details of the child? Are T&T going to be ringing kids? That’s wrong, isn’t it? So basically unless Bob has the contact details for Alfie’s mum, no one gets contacted.

And if Bob says I got on the the number 64 school bus but doesn't know the phone numbers of the kids and driver on the bus that's that. They won't even let the school know.

how T&T will work from Monday

How are they going to get contact details of close contacts of primary kids without contacting schools?

Under tens don’t tend to have mobiles to contact each other directly. Are they relying on parents having each other’s contact details?

Even if, say, eight year old Grace says that she has been sitting next to/hugging/sharing resources with Rose all day at school, surely T&T won’t be able to actively trace Rose as a close contact unless Grace’s parents have Rose’s parents’ contact details?

Am I missing something?

Oh God. Organised fun. Nightmare.

I have sprained my wrist. This is making all sorts of movements unexpectedly difficult, not least MNing.

I haven't had a Bob for a couple of years, but the last "that class" I had (currently Year 7, God help the secondary school they all went to) was full of them. There was a Paris, yes, but a male one. Even so, as awful as they were, I didn't dread going in in the mornings. They were fun, despite everything and certainly kept us entertained in the staffroom at lunchtime (those halcyon days when we were allowed in there). Most of the aggro was on the playground, but they were OK (ish) when tethered down in a calm environment.

You're missing that this is deliberate - they don't want to know the contacts or contact them.

Ah, everyone else seems to have spotted the same issue while I was writing that post 😂

We genuinely have a child with the middle name "Tiberius" this year. He's lovely.

A name that I find irksome is Alicia - there is no clue as to whether they are 'aleesha' or 'al-i-see-a' and yet they seem very irate if you pick the same one and there's often two on the same register and you have to remember which is which.

Also Isabella - I teach at least 5 and some are Bella, some Izzie, some the whole name but again really pissy if you get muddled up.

@Mistressiggi

Booty. I will say no more. If you played it you will know what I mean!

I thought you meant a name before I read the second line.

I'm not counting my chair-thrower, as he has ASD and really can't help it.

In our school we have a class with two Daisys, two Darcys, two Charlies, two Finns, two Bethanys, two Gabriels and three Sebastians.

Originality was clearly not a high point locally the year that they were born.

We had a brilliant one like Tiberius but I can't say it. Unique and outing because surname literally made him a Roman emperor.

We have had a Boadicea. And a Storm.

I had a Mia one year who would kill you with a death stare and flatly ignore you if you pronounced it Mee-ya. She was My - a.

I have the same problem with Aimee. Although I think I’m moving towards ‘if you see it in the U.K. it’s almost always the same as Amy.’

I used to put kids in tutor groups by name. Never failed.

Kaine.

One year we had a class with four Georges and two Georgias.