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

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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.

Yeah

Research project wise I'd probably focus on restorative behaviour policies as that's allegedly what we do where I am but in reality the time and structures aren't really 'there' to make it meaningful or consistent and it's more down to individual teachers how they interpret and how/if they bother to do restoratives with kids. I'd like to have some evidence based knowledge about if/how it works, what it's limits are, which groups of kids it does/doesn't have real benefits with etc.

I think kids maybe should be allowed to do this once any isolation runs into time out of school.

And also (thinking about it) has anyone come across anyone else who’s in that study, or seen anyone reporting as being in it, apart from the similar schools study?

I haven’t Jan.

Also, didn’t the study only allow kids to go to school and presumably adults to go to work. I didn’t think it was a complete free for all.

@noblegiraffe

Better?

Thank you .

horror there is a “pilot”: www.independent.co.uk/news/education/covid-test-quarantine-selfisolation-school-england-b1823194.html

Rafa yes. Hence the BBC (who’ve now reported re Boris and Rishi) stating they’ll only carry out essential government business....

Apparently 40,000 were originally supposed to be recruited to the study.

Presumably doing as much from home as they can...

jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2782288

This is a couple of days old now, but have we discussed this paper on effects of mask wearing in kids being retracted yet? Looks like you might only be able to draw a conclusion that they have a negative affect on CO2 levels if you ignore all the data you found that shows they don’t.

Interesting thread on the “pilot” and it’s being discussed on R4 atm. It’s not going down well. But does definitely exist.

I've tried to find info on when the pilot finishes and it due to report, but without success. The schools one was supposed to be done in time for implementation in September.

@RafaIsTheKingOfClay

Presumably doing as much from home as they can...

jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2782288

This is a couple of days old now, but have we discussed this paper on effects of mask wearing in kids being retracted yet? Looks like you might only be able to draw a conclusion that they have a negative affect on CO2 levels if you ignore all the data you found that shows they don’t.

Watching Andrew Marr. It was always obvious that Javid and Johnson wouldn't self-isolate like the rest of us, but still makes me angry - always one rule for them and one rule for the plebs. Combined with Barnard Castle, Gove, Hancock etc., seems such obvious contempt for the population.

Honey, I thought of doing an MEd straight after my PGCE but never got around to it, I changed school 3 times in 3 years and just ran out of momentum. Nowadays when I think about doing an extra qualification, I think about doing a counselling qualification as that would tie in well with the job (and also some volunteering work that I do). I think part-time is a real barrier to progression - the people with leadership positions in my school are generally FT, or 0.8 (above). Those who are not got their senior positions before they went PT.

I suspect there will be quite a few people who are supposed to be self isolating who will be out and about maskless tomorrow.

The government really have nailed undermining their own policies haven’t they?

Yes I think realistically any progress would have to come from a change of school. I have no way of increasing my hours currently as our department is technically overstaffed. I keep hoping we'll start doing GCSE Sociology because that would be perfect and could up my hours but can't see it happening.

I already have a Post Grad Diploma in Counselling that I did when I took an early career break just before having ds. I doubt anyone at school even knows. It's strange the way they claim we are their biggest resource but don't seem to know anything about our professional and educational backgrounds.

I am so furious this morning as a parent of a 17 year old . Missing out on covid jab and no flu jab. Fucking furious. Sorry jan.

It's strange the way they claim we are their biggest resource but don't seem to know anything about our professional and educational backgrounds.

Seems similar here - we had to fill in a survey this year, listing our qualifications! I'm guessing it was in anticipation of an inspection in the future.

Please do look at the report noble. It's full of very funky maths stuff!

Interestingly, from their list of GCSE subjects and what they do, they omit media studies. I'd love to know that, given the horrifically snobbish thread running on the coronavirus board.

Oh Brie, my suspicion would be that staff shortages mean teachers teaching outside their specialism and they want to know who has A-level French.

I have A Level French, and have taught it at ks3 many moons ago. I also have half a degree in computer science, and am teaching some year 7 computing next year, which should be fun. Last time we had to list our qualifications it was just before they announced we needed redundancies. They needed to know who was essential and who could volunteer for redundancy. We lost 7 teachers that year and 4 more the year after. We're losing one to redundancy this year too, which was a very sad one as they literally sat 4 people down and said "one of you needs to go", without any indications beforehand that it was on the cards.

Broom cupboard needs ventilating....

Saw an Independent article on the schools pilot which said it was due to finish at the “end of this month” noble, but that was written in June and updated in July, so 🤷🏻‍♀️

There was definitely a random person pilot thing on LFTs instead of isolation. Offered when TandT contacted you. Lots of NHS staff did it.

@noblegiraffe

Oh Brie, my suspicion would be that staff shortages mean teachers teaching outside their specialism and they want to know who has A-level French.

Yes, that's definitely the reason for the qualifications survey in our Trust.

How about you try and do the right thing the first time rather than waiting to see if you can get away with it or not …

Wild!