The Sixty-Fifth Republic - The Covid School Phoney War under way so who will the gold medal and who will get the wooden spoon?

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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.

You can sit on chairs but keep the windows open. You don’t have to upload LFT results during the holidays. You do not have to wear mask - free choice

*decoding not deciding

Reread it noble - you are correct...

Caecelius est in forum. Metella est in atrium. Quintus EST in horto. Melissa Quintus delectat(?)

@EnemyOfEducationNo1

Caecelius est in forum. Metella est in atrium. Quintus EST in horto. Melissa Quintus delectat(?)

Ah fond memories:)

And the Roman girl is sitting under a tree.

@Monkeytennis97, your post made me laugh, because on a much lower plane, did anyone else learn their French numbers and countries from Eurovision?

I remember being giddily excited when dh and I actually visited Pompeii some years back. You get to see Caecilius's house!

DH got very excited during the Dr Who Pompeii episode when Peter Capaldi’s character was called Caecilius.

Ah yes, and then book 2 was in in Roman Britain wasn't it? Quintus turns up on Britain at some point.
Cerberus est in via was my most remembered phrase from book 1 😂

Grumio amat ancilla.

Oh the tales of Grumio chasing the maid.

Where is Gav Spencer (brother of Frank) getting this £4million from in order to roll out Latin?

It is another half-baked idea that will wither on the vine by Christmas.

How about sorting out BTECs and the new tech quals that loads of students take? Get your priorities sorted Gav

He is sorting out BTECs by scrapping them.

The Latin guff got more headlines.

feweek.co.uk/2021/07/14/what-you-need-to-know-from-the-governments-response-to-the-level-3-qualification-review

@noblegiraffe

Nah the maths in an engineering degree is harder than the maths in a maths degree.

Because you have to understand the engineering as well as the maths.

And the chemistry as well in this case.

Grumio the cook 😂. Wasn't he a bit of a chancer? Chasing the maid, he was a bit slap dash and lazy too, wasn't he?!

I found the Chemistry in my degree super difficult, funnily enough I always did really well in the maths paper, it really pulled my marks up. My classmates and I still reminisce about the impossible polymers paper in our finals... all of the past papers had had similar sorts of questions, then this one was just horrific, different from anything we'd ever seen.

I remember so very little of my degree now - could probably teach Chemistry and Physics comfortably at KS3 (possibly KS4 at a push). Do people remember their degree content?

This made me think of the music discussion!

Yami "Rowdy" Lofvenberg: The top hip-hop dancer who can’t count the beats www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-57905243

..... but there's only 4 beats in a bar in hip hop. Now some heavy metal with 7/8 time signatures I can understand- that's awkward.

Really monkey, never knew that! Explains a lot!
Some examples??

noble! How to start a thread in Coronavirus that has everyone loving you (well, OK, only four replies so far!):

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/4311790-New-LFTs-available-nose-only-faster-easier

Ah Jan you can either be popular or get 1000 replies.

I am not popular.

Touché

On a serious note, I wonder if the govt have published the reliability of these tests, as the technique and processing is different?!

A dangerous article from the Telegraph today, saying scientists are all political - so we don’t have to listen to them.

Guess which side of the spectrum of arguments about Covid/lockdown/ all of their examples come from.

Absolutely no mention of Great Barrington, Dingwall etc

The Telegraph are GBD, not just biased reporting. No point in reading anything they write on covid except as a propaganda piece for the HART lot. The chat logs had them being given early looks at press releases, handed articles to publish and their journalists helping to set up meetings with MPs.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/22/forcing-children-self-isolate-needless/

This was posted on another post - can’t read it so not sure what ‘evidence’ it’s using, but…!

Our school made you take 3 years of latin before allowing you into Homeric Greek. Greek was taught by a no nonsense nun who in the first term expected you to learn all of the grammar and vocabulary and in the second term to translate the first book of the Odyssey. This is in the US so not tied to an exam. It was crazy and wonderful.