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 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

Yay @JanFebAnyMonth!

Back home now. Showered and lying on sofa. Love camping but in this heat it’s hard to find decent shade to rest.

What I've struggled with with camping in the past has been the 4am sun beaming at you seemingly magnified by a sheet of plastic making you feel like you're an ant under a magnifying glass in the hands of a sadistic kid and everyone sleeping blissfully through it.

In a house you could go downstairs, make a cup of coffee, curl up on the sofa downstairs with the curtains drawn etc. In a tent it's like????????? Now fucking what?

welcome home Mother.

Pop!

House party at the weekend has just sent the entirety of a year group home. Happy freedom day!

How, though? No contact tracing any more?

schoolsweek.co.uk/inadequate-dfe-covid-guidance-contributing-to-crisis-in-school-leadership/

@Piggywaspushed

How, though? No contact tracing any more?

Not sure. Maybe SLT decision? Doubt parents are thrilled.

Not a surprise there @Piggywaspushed.

Gav’s piping up in m local news:

www.expressandstar.com/news/education/2021/07/19/schools-will-return-to-normal-vows-gavin-williamson---but-masks-could-still-be-needed/

He’s still going on about mobile phones and now serials about ‘removal rooms’ and ‘managed moves’ are also out for consultation.

Still on about mobiles. We've not allowed them to be seen without being confiscated during the school day for nearly 2 years now ffs. Maybe he'll tell us about how seating plans can improve behaviour next

I’m going to round up all the Bobs and manage move them to his office.

Honestly I'd rather sit in a room full of Bobs and address the actual issues than have one Bob per class. God forbid anyone with actual training and experience gets their hands on these issues though - fuck we might have to actually pay them for it or give them more nct.

@motherrunner

I’m going to round up all the Bobs and manage move them to his office.

Like it

I think the nightclubbers are going to need a school trip areound parliament in sept

Thanks @TheHoneyBadger. I think it’s more DD doesn’t know how to socialise with her peers and feels overwhelmed by it all. She’s so good with adults and one on one I think I just assumed she’d be fine. She’s told me she worries about friends, having enough, being liked, fitting in and that it’s just all stressful. In her class they’ve now been together since reception, some before that, so it s hard. I think starting Y7, with me helping her, hopefully will be better as everyone to some extent is starting afresh. I’d still like her to speak to someone professional, just in general about things. Her headteacher told me he now has grown up children but that this age is the hardest which was nice of him - even if not true it was what I needed to hear 🤣 thanks again for letting me spill it out here, I’ve really appreciated it.

We’re celebrating freedom day by declaring alert level 4 (black) again and discharging as many patients as possible.

Thanks Boris.

I really really really don't get the anti lockdown protest today.

Besides, don't these people work? Shouldn't they all be joyfully back at work, unmasked, and in shops and on trains, licking people?

No @Piggywaspushed, they’re like my WFH neighbours who like to party with their close friends in the garden, have their shopping delivered but want their kids out their faces.

I think.contract tracing and bubble closures still counts today and probably tomorrow because it's only for cases that start today, but people who tested positive or started symptoms over weekend count under the old rules.

Thanks staff

Checking in as I wasn't on yesterday.

Today has been exhausting! Kids hyper, needed to do a proper lesson with Y10 as I had to finish the topic but it just felt so hard.

Plus, I have been melting all day 🥵

1.5 days left!

@DanglingMod

I think.contract tracing and bubble closures still counts today and probably tomorrow because it's only for cases that start today, but people who tested positive or started symptoms over weekend count under the old rules.

Or more likely no one knows what's going on and people are just making it up in the absence of actual clear guidance.

Ange you were asking about covid absence data....the DfE aren't collecting it for the end of term.

www.tes.com/news/schools-not-asked-weeks-covid-attendance-data

Why would they not want a complete data set? Because they know it's going to be horrendous.

The little shites

Sorry.

That was my only possible response to the news re attendance figures.

OMG Jan you are speaking more freely!

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