The Sixty-Sixth Republic - Who will be the medal winners on Results Day? Grade inflation predicted again

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We have CO2 monitors in rooms already. Problem is, some rooms have no openable windows, nor the scope to fit any

@RuleWithAWoodenFoot sorry you're dreading going back your post suggests you had some happy times at your previous school? So, maybe a different school might help if the current one isn't a good fit. I agree though that after the madness that has been teaching through a pandemic, now may not be the time to make such a decision.

Are there specific things you're dreading? Maybe we can help.with some suggestions?

I have an awful feeling that the CO2 monitors will just mean that we'll have somebody saying "You don't have to open your windows: the CO2 monitor says it's fine and little Bobby is cold."

I bet the co2 monitors will never arrive. Or like the laptops, will not be made available to under year 3, which helped us in KS1 no end…!

Just caught up and read links etc and I’m now in dread mode too.

I’d love to believe we were going to go back to normal as planned but I just see disaster and insane workload looming at the minute.

Our classes had a pretty low instance rate of the virus until around the end of last year. My concern moving forward is that I'm going to see a number of my new class disappear for two weeks each and them miss loads of key learning in the autumn term.

@RuleWithAWoodenFoot

Genuine question.

How do I deal best with the 'I don't want to do this anymore' thing?

Do I go part time?
Different school first?
Try and take a year out doing a McJob so I've got time to think about options?

My dread about going back has already started, and I'm not back until 1st. That's a huge chunk of holiday to waste on dread.

Sorry you're feeling like this. I am too.

I've just seen a great part time job advertised, for January. I'm sure I won't get it, but I can't wait to ask the head for a reference just to panic her! It is worth the effort of filling in the application form just for joy that thought alone is bringing me. Isn't that dreadful?

My CO2 monitor also has the temperature on it. It is very difficult to juggle keeping it green and above 15° in the winter.

I have the fear. Have a medically complex class and am fretting a bit about that. Have a lovely mentor and staff generally are very supportive though, so need to remember that. And the children are amazing, of course!

Bob is going to love the CO2 alarms.

@AuntLydiasNewHairdo

Bob is going to love the CO2 alarms.

Bob is going to whack the CO2 alarms

I don't have the fear yet. Just a creeping nagging feeling that I need to look at a few work related things soon. Like my seating plan.

I have a nice class coming up with one asd pupil who is relatively happy go lucky and has a pt 1 2 1. So my only worry is getting to grips with how to run things that suit both him and me.
He's not completely full time but I know that's the goal.

2 years ago and he was only in one half day a week and hated his teacher. And his mum thought the teacher didnt like her son either.

I've taught her other children and currently she thinks the sun shines out of me and told me she hoped her boy was coming my way in Sept. So I hope it goes well.

Oh yes... and curriculum is completely changing next Sept so it's all change in prep for that.

And the ht has VOLUNTEERED us for pilot inspection under the new framework.

So an easy year ahead....
Fml

Gosh you lot have been talking a lot while I was away and not looking on MN because I was sightseeing in the delightful Birmingham. I mean, I feel like I talked a lot too, but not on here.

I haven't thought about school at all, not one bit, all summer. Other than about an hour on each results day where I wondered how certain kids felt about their results and hoped they had a plan B for their next steps. I suppose I'll need to do some thinking this week, or at least some tidying, because my dining table/marking desk seems to have been filled with other crap (we haven't eaten at the dining table since the start of lockdown). I'm going to be doing some computing for the first time in years, so I should probably look at the scheme of work for that, etc. Still sitting on my arse though.

Does anyone know of from now on GP/nurses/dentists/hospital appointments will be fine for people who live with someone with covid?

Went for an outpatients appt this morning. Right inside the door I was asked if anyone I live with has covid/symptoms/been abroad in the last 20 days.

Survived a week! V tired. Our NQT/ probationer is tweeting daily and announced that she was ‘really quite worried, my class are just too settled!’

Eyebrows were raised….

No idea about patients I’m afraid. Definitely no for staff where I am.

Bob is going to whack the CO2 alarms

Bob is going to breath into the CO2 alarms on purpose

@DollyMixtureLulus

Survived a week! V tired. Our NQT/ probationer is tweeting daily and announced that she was ‘really quite worried, my class are just too settled!’

Eyebrows were raised….

Is she nuts?

@DollyMixtureLulus

Survived a week! V tired. Our NQT/ probationer is tweeting daily and announced that she was ‘really quite worried, my class are just too settled!’

Eyebrows were raised….

That would be a fun conversation for me to have to have...

I don't think I've quite settled on a single adjective for her yet. We shall see.

I don't get it, is it a humblebrag?

Does she know about the honeymoon period?

Don't they get taught about social media use during training?

Oh, sorry, that wasn't clear. She does have a edutwitter account (she asked me to have it followed by the school account) but that particular humblebrag was during lunch.

Ah well that's not soooooo bad then. But even so...

So much of eduTwitter have mixed personal/professional accounts. One post will have pictures of their current class, including close ups, and the next will be about how much they want a curry while they watch the football. It's a mess.

If I posted pictures of children on a twitter that wasn't one that had been set up by the school, I'd be called to meet with the head and delete the twitter at the very least. I don't know how people get away with it (or why you'd want to).