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Broom cupboard 4 - soon be time to think about heating this place

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TheHoneyBadger · 29/08/2021 09:42

Will post this on the end of the other thread too but I have just found this:

If you are identified as a contact and asked to self-isolate by NHS Test and Trace, including by the NHS COVID-19 app you may be entitled to a payment of £500 from your local authority under the Test and Trace Support Payment scheme. If you are the parent or guardian of a child who has been told to self-isolate you may also be entitled to this payment.

^Presumably that is all of the 'thought' that has gone into the situation I've been talking about. Still doesn't tell us if we would be seen as taking unauthorised leave or able to work from home or anything - need union specific advice on that.

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SquashedFlyBiscuits · 22/09/2021 13:25

So...dh's 4th result is back and is negative!

To sum up as a family of 3:

  • all had symptoms (all the symptoms off the long list amongst us apart from diarrhoea and vomiting)
  • 9 negative pcrs
  • 1 positive pcr
-12 positive lfds
  • 3 negative lfds

ConfusedConfusedConfused

DanglingMod · 22/09/2021 14:34

There's definitely something dodgy with those PCRs at the mo, isn't there?

We have a family of four siblings. All off, all really poorly. All four got positive LFTs, two got a positive PCR, two a negative. There is no way they don't all have Covid. Luckily, they're all at home because they're all (unluckily) too ill to be in school.

DenbyChina · 22/09/2021 14:40

That’s why I’m not going to test again, Squashed. What I have sounds exactly like Covid and meets almost all of the symptom list. There is clearly something that isn’t working in the testing system or there is a bug with the exact same symptoms.

motherrunner · 22/09/2021 15:36

So tired! We’re having to stream all
Lesson live via teams because of the amount of pupils who are positive or wasting PCRs but also to upload resources as some pupils may be well enough to work and some not. I am doing 3 x my workload at no 😭

noblegiraffe · 22/09/2021 15:40

Get your union rep onto that, mother, that’s unsustainable. It should be streamed lessons or uploaded resources not both.

We are centralising and setting generic work for isolating kids by year group.

motherrunner · 22/09/2021 15:45

We have two union reps in school. They’re awful. It’s a waste of time and my regional rep is hopeless too. Sometimes I feel it’s a waste of money paying my subs.

motherrunner · 22/09/2021 15:46

At least tonight’s twilight inset is remote so I can sit in my office and chill.

motherrunner · 22/09/2021 16:07

Primary teachers - help!

Have received a text from DD’s teacher saying she needs to learn a poem off by heart and recite it to the class - apparently it’s a Yr 6 target (is it?). Anyway, any recommendations in short poems that she can learn? She has a week to learn it and considering she has only Tuesday evenings and Sunday mornings where we don’t have clubs it’s needs to be easy to remember!

noblegiraffe · 22/09/2021 16:09

The cow is of the bovine ilk
One end moo
The other milk

phlebasconsidered · 22/09/2021 16:21

It's not a target in my year 6 and it's not a moderation requirement.

Thank god.

Iamnotthe1 · 22/09/2021 16:21

It's not Y6 specific: it's in the curriculum for across all year groups to be able to read, write, appraise, memorise and perform poems. It often gets missed out though unless the school do some kind of performance showcase.

Your problem will be that anything overly simple won't necessarily be deemed sufficient for Y6. In the past, I've had kids learn:

  • chunks of a longer poem like the Highwayman or Jabberwocky,
  • a shorter piece but with powerful meaning like Caged Bird by Maya Angelou
  • a poem that can really be performed to make up for the lack of complexity like the Sound Collector.
Iamnotthe1 · 22/09/2021 16:23

@phlebasconsidered

It's not a target in my year 6 and it's not a moderation requirement.

Thank god.

Agreed. They must be feeling supremely confident about where all of the children are as writers to be devoting time to this at the start of the year!
motherrunner · 22/09/2021 16:28

@Iamnotthe1

It's not Y6 specific: it's in the curriculum for across all year groups to be able to read, write, appraise, memorise and perform poems. It often gets missed out though unless the school do some kind of performance showcase.

Your problem will be that anything overly simple won't necessarily be deemed sufficient for Y6. In the past, I've had kids learn:

  • chunks of a longer poem like the Highwayman or Jabberwocky,
  • a shorter piece but with powerful meaning like Caged Bird by Maya Angelou
  • a poem that can really be performed to make up for the lack of complexity like the Sound Collector.
That’s what I thought.

DS had brought a letter home about learning a poem but by October half term and everyone who read out a poem would get a prize.

DD’s teacher worded it as ‘this is a Yr 6 target. Learnt by Monday. Delivered to class’.

Don’t want to be ‘that parent’ but have emailed and said I think the deadline is too short for DD due to being in wraparound each day and all the clubs she does and as she’s diligent she’ll want to do it well and will worry if she can’t learn one.

motherrunner · 22/09/2021 16:28

Thanks for advice on the poems!

Iamnotthe1 · 22/09/2021 16:34

If they are funny about it and insist, get her to use visual prompts: drawn pictures that remind her what the next lines are. She has still learnt it off by heart as she's not reading it from anything but she doesn't have to panic about not being fully "off-book".

Alternatively, songs are just lyrical poems. Get her to do a spoken word version of a song she knows well.

motherrunner · 22/09/2021 16:36

Great idea @Iamnotthe1 - thanks!

I haven’t even spoken to her yet. I’m still at work (messaging naughtily whilst listening to the nurse talking about epipens) but I know when I collect her she’ll be fretting about when she’ll have time to learn one.

Mistressiggi · 22/09/2021 17:15

Get her to do that one by Philip Larkin. She won't get beyond the title before the teacher will find they have run out of time Grin

motherrunner · 22/09/2021 17:37

@Mistressiggi

Get her to do that one by Philip Larkin. She won't get beyond the title before the teacher will find they have run out of time Grin
Genius!
Saucery · 22/09/2021 17:39

When I was at the party,"
Said Betty, aged just four,
"A little girl fell off her chair
Right down upon the floor;
And all the other little girls
Began to laugh, but me--
I didn't laugh a single bit,"
Said Betty seriously.

"Why not?" her mother asked her,
Full of delight to find
That Bettybless her little heart!
Had been so sweetly kind.
"Why didn't you laugh, my darling?
Or don't you like to tell?"
"I didn't laugh," said Betty,
" 'Cause me it was that fell."

How about Betty At The Party? She can put a load of indignant expression into it Grin

motherrunner · 22/09/2021 17:40

I love that @Saucery. Thanks!

MrsHamlet · 22/09/2021 17:44

That's bought a tear to my eye, @Saucery My grandad used to read that to me.

Saucery · 22/09/2021 17:46

Snap, MrsHamlet, except it was my Granny. We are of a similar vintage, I think. It is in A Book Of A Thousand Poems iirc, along with Nicholas Nye, the stoic old nettle-eating donkey.

JanglyBeads · 22/09/2021 18:01

Haha

JanglyBeads · 22/09/2021 18:22

My haha was about the Larkin reference. I’ve never heard Betty but I love it.

I love all the Milne poems - eg A Little Bit of Butter for My Bread, Rice Pudding.

JanglyBeads · 22/09/2021 18:22

(Probably not the actual titles)

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