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

[TheHoneyBadger]

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.

Chocolate is coming 8pm Friday. 38 hours to wait.

Will be definitely worth the wait! Sorry about the positive

@motherrunner

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9989585/Schools-prioritised-food-instead-education-claims-Ofsted-Chief-Amanda-Spielman.html

I can’t work out if she’s blaming schools or not?

And where were Ofsted last March 2020?! Oh yes, ‘working’ hiding at home….

@motherrunner

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9989585/Schools-prioritised-food-instead-education-claims-Ofsted-Chief-Amanda-Spielman.html

I can’t work out if she’s blaming schools or not?

I read that as if she is blaming schools. Does she realise that the DfE suspended the curriculum during lockdown 1? Or that remote learning in lockdown 3 depended on adequacy of tech both in schools and at home? There must be a glorious view from that ivory tower of hers.

Has she not heard of the thibgymabob hierarchy of need?

@winewolfhowls

Has she not heard of the thibgymabob hierarchy of need?

Perhaps she imagines that children study best when their tummies are rumbling?

Oh yes, where were the promised laptops for disadvantaged pupils, Amanda? Where was the health support from CAHMS and Social care, Amanda? Why were EdenRed vouchers such a disaster, Amanda?

What you should be talking about Amanda, is WHY DID SCHOOL STAFF HAVE TO BE THE ONES TO FEED HUNGRY CHILDREN DURING A PANDEMIC???

Are we presuming that the ‘frontline health/social care workers’ will again include speech therapists and EP’s that are still working from home?! Honestly, I can’t get an EP anywhere near my school!

Oh so schools should have let the most disadvantaged kids starve in order to ensure the middle class kids had the same offering of private schools? Or...?

The fence must be quite painful for her bottom.

Maybe the Daily Mail are spinning it in the worst possible light? I dunno, I don't think she'd suggest that kids should have gone hungry so that Henrietta could have a live lesson.

I sometimes despair at how little the people at the top grasp the reality of life

She is definitely putting the boot in, I think noble presumably to hide Ofsted’s mistakes-even schoolsweek can’t spin it any other way sadly

schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-prioritised-food-parcels-over-remote-learning-and-4-other-things-we-learned-from-ofsted/?fbclid=IwAR3hs0Z1OihAUXXYVV3oXtaW2z888Arhl-0usxDdKpUHfnG7lV0eUsFMujQ

Oh, in order to catch up the kids from months of remote education we should just cut out the bit where they wrap their mates in toilet roll from the curriculum?

I don't have any toilet roll lessons. What should I cut out?

Ofsted’s former national director of education Sean Harford, previously told Schools Week that increasing the length of inspections would reduce anxiety and “probably reduce the workload” as more time would be available to discuss evidence on site.

Yeahhh

Checking in. Thanks for the new broom cupboard. It's cosy in here. I've brought biscuits.

I am very annoyed with that woman. Who else did she think should be prioritised when the government suspended the curriculum and failed to provide food for children on FSM? Of course teachers prioritised making sure those children could eat!!!

I provided remote learning right from the start of lockdown 1, but quite a lot of kids didn't have access to it because they lacked the technology. We waited months for the promised laptops, and sent internet dongles to families without internet. I don't know what more she expected teachers in state schools to do.

Her comments really make no sense.

Initially, she suggests schools should have purely prioritised education for all (regardless of the fact there was no expectation of this in the first lockdown and the curriculum had been suspended). However, she then goes on to say that what we are teaching children now should not be based on what we set and covered during remote learning. This suggests that she believes that learning remotely was ineffective and can't be trusted.

So either it's what all schools should have been doing for every lockdown or it was an ineffective practice and we shouldn't trust that learning took place remotely - which is it?

“I sometimes think the best analogy for an inspection is a root canal treatment at your dentist. You don’t look forward to it with joy, but once it’s done you’re actually pretty glad it’s been done.”

No, Amanda, you're glad it's over.
I don't know about you lot but I've yet to experience an inspection that was genuinely helpful to the overall development of the school.

Ofsted is a pain in the arse. Constructive my eye.

My LSA is negative, but 3 kids have positive parents and are testing every day.

Nothing exciting happening at my school. It looks like my guy is heading for specialist provision asap, which is great for him and the rest of us Last year's class are driving the new teacher mad, so I feel a little vindicated regard my knackereness in July. I'm actually teaching, instead of doing crowd control.

@noblegiraffe

Oh, in order to catch up the kids from months of remote education we should just cut out the bit where they wrap their mates in toilet roll from the curriculum?

I don't have any toilet roll lessons. What should I cut out?

I do just such a mummification lesson. The vast majority of the class remember the steps involved and the reasons why mummification took place, purely because it is a fun, memorable lesson. I will not be changing it.

Our Egyptian unit involves nothing about mummies. Just all about construction and use of levers. Bit yawny.

@RuleWithAWoodenFoot

Our Egyptian unit involves nothing about mummies. Just all about construction and use of levers. Bit yawny.

That sounds dull to me and I'm an adult. Give me a toilet roll mummy while miming hooking brains out through their noses any day. I do not get to do things like this, and that makes me sad. I have to get my silliness fix from doing Brownies every week.

No idea what Rule's going to cut from the curriculum to shove in some catch-up work then. Any ideas, Amanda?

This 'the majority of catch-up will happen in normal classrooms with their normal teacher' is bullshit. She basically suggests we spend so much time arsing around we should be able to fit it in easily by teaching properly instead

We do a fair bit on Ancient Egyptian beliefs and virtually nothing on the practicalities of construction. I love teaching about Ancient Egypt

A lurker in need of advice.

Household is 2 teacher adults plus 1 primary child.
1 adult developed symptoms (cough and temp) in the night last night.
All did LFT this morning. 2xadults positive, 1xchild negative.
All did pcr. All results back this evening and negative.
Adults did another LFT. Adult with symptoms is positive other adult is negative.
What to do in morning????

I'm guessing Amanda wouldn't approve of my Discovery of Tutankhamun's Tomb lesson either. How dare the children have any fun while learning?!

So long as it's not a dress-up day. I suck at dress-up days.