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.

@Iamnotthe1 I like the sound of that one too, thank you!

We don't do enough poetry.... does anyone in primary use anything in particular they like?

@MrsHamlet

I'm baffled by the business manager sorting stuff out. Ours lives in his office and keeps away from teaching staff and students. Primary- secondary differences are fascinating.

Ours is an active part of our school: lunch duties, trips, clubs, etc. Even came on residential.

It's not exciting, but The River by Valerie Bloom. Metaphor a go-go.

Thanks @Iamnotthe1 !

Mine would throw himself out of a moving vehicle before that happened 😂

[quote DollyMixtureLulus]@Iamnotthe1 I like the sound of that one too, thank you!

We don't do enough poetry.... does anyone in primary use anything in particular they like?[/quote]
I thought this so I starting putting songs in my reading lessons every so often, particularly from musical theatre. I just give them the lyrics and treat it as if it's a poem for analysis.

Our, secondary, business manager seems to basically run the school. If you want something actually sorting you see her rather than the head.

Knackered. Popped into school to do some marking at about 1.30 and didn’t get out till gone 6. Daft for a day off but marking is up to date and I’m ahead of myself on planning and printing.

We don't have a business manager. I'm not sure what one does? Ours might be the finance guy, or possibly the head's secretary (very outdated term for the woman who organises pretty much everything that needs to be organised)

Have you seen TES article about some schools /LAs saying if there’s any doubt about parent consent to having a student vaxxed they’ll send them to another venue especially if protesters are around?
(Skim read a few lines so don’t quote me!)

Cumbria reintroducing self isolation for siblings, at least until PCR negative!

Ooh, fancy you knowing that before I do. I live here.

But not parents 🤦🏼‍♀️

Oof, that's a thing. Our kids are mostly just not getting tested. Loads off ill, back within 2 days, no test, still coughing.

Same here Rule. About 4 or 5 per class all down as I with comments such as ‘sore throat, cold symptoms’ etc. They are just not testing currently are they?!

No offence MsAD, but Parents Utd (if you subtract the loonies and pathologically anxious) are like a Covidipeadia!

Covidpedia?

@ChloeDecker

Same here Rule. About 4 or 5 per class all down as I with comments such as ‘sore throat, cold symptoms’ etc. They are just not testing currently are they?!

Nope - I asked about it in slt because there seems to be a rolling absence of 5 - 7 kids a day in every class off.. yet only I codes in the register rather than X.

The one child I had properly off after a positive test in her house, was testing every day and could tell me about the actual test. The others are saying 'negative test' without being able to tell me what a test is - and if they are going for a test, why not tell the school so we can X code it properly.

We're back to full school assembly tomorrow.

I think the I thing is the new thing. We have no X codes at all. But I know we have a not insignificant number of positive students.

I’m also in Cumbria and didn’t know about the reintroduction of self isolation. I don’t know whether to whoop from a teaching perspective or sob from a parenting one!

Ooh, @AttaGirrrrl - top, middle or bottom?

Heheh. Bottom. Are you Cumbrian too?

Bottom.

X is only for while they're getting a test (or class closure etc). If actually confirmed covid positive, it's back to I now.

Well, I know you don’t work in my school as we have Xs

@AttaGirrrrl

Well, I know you don’t work in my school as we have Xs

😂 I've pmed you