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.

Interesting thread about negative PCRs following a positive LFT.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/4356425-Positive-LFTs-but-negative-PCR-twice

@JanglyBeads

Says some sec schools have 10 % off due to Covid.

We had more cases on Friday than we’ve had during the whole of the last eighteen months added together.

At least you know! We've got loads of kids off and with parents who 'don't believe in testing' (direct quote).

mobile.twitter.com/thealiceroberts/status/1441461699786252290?s=12&fbclid=IwAR27WvNvtZ5MzrKos68M1GJn-jiKW6s50Yt2yTEOrB5XVWhcfX2pwhAP-Dc
Teen rates comment.....

@noblegiraffe Plymouth testing lab is the issue I think. My positive was from Wolverhampton. This is clearly an issue. I will be very interested to see if it gets reported in the press. Not that I have much confidence in the press left.

I’ve just asked Data whether anyone’s seen a scientist commenting on the issue, expecting to be torn down in flames shortly

The issue of pos LFT /neg PCR, I mean

Yeah I did notice way more off in my year 7 groups yesterday now I think of it so maybe we're not as far behind the rest of the county.

Wait and see I guess. I have a colleague off with the whole family positive on lft but negative on pcr but symptoms and another positive lft so retesting pcrs saga currently. No one seemed to know this was an issue so I think I can conclude no one in my department is on MN.

Wouldn't put it past them, Vic.

@13luckyblackcats super late to this but you need a rekenrek (there’s an app called number rack but real is best) and or have a look at the Numbersense website for a structured programme of teaching number facts.

Haha Noble.....

Thanks @ProfSprout I will definitely look at those. Got somewhere on Friday by continually repeating modelling making numicon models, but they still really just want to add them together, so it's an ongoing one. Thanks again!

twitter.com/profcolindavis/status/1441798279419752453?s=21

The area he produces that scary graph for is ours, and I now have a 14 yo awaiting PCR results (haven’t LFT’d since Wed evening. Symptoms started last night.)

That is really scary Jan and not unsurprising either. Poor Kettering.
Was chatting to a friend of mine yesterday who is a primary teacher in a London school and they are having an awful time of it lately-with positive cases but also parents refusing to test too.

This response to that graph on that twitter thread made me laugh wryly. ‘Good luck’ indeed…

Or, "May the odds be ever in your favour". They're really not though when 10% of the class are out with a positive test and a mystery percentage are sitting in your class positive.

We are learning new levels of stoicism I guess. Or developing seriously messed up psyches from so much denial and cognitive dissonance.

I’ve got it. I’m pretty pissed off tbh. The odds were never going to be in my favour with so many cases in school and no protection (this is a criticism of government policy, not my school!)

www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/uk-schools-test-trace-covid-b1925451.html?fbclid=IwAR0v3WJvP_vLzwkucsHtBOABEl-iZO-6YdOgf2Egy7MyHWX6QCGEBoh6RsA

Many(?) schools ignoring DfE guidance because they really want to keep children in school.....

The lack of mitigations also shows up in the other bugs spreading liek wildfire - liek the one I currently have, after all the not Covid kids coughed all over me all week.

We need parents to record and publish test and trace phonecalls to show just how shit the system is.

Sorry to hear that @AttaGirrrrl. Colin Cox was just too late

Thanks @MrsHamlet - Colin timed it perfectly for me to be ill AND keep my kids at home That’s okay though. I’d have felt beyond guilty sending them in.

Be careful what you wish for though folks. I wanted more time to mark the mountain of assessments i bought home this weekend. Oh.

I need some time to decorate the new extension. Should I not say this aloud?

Sorry, Atta. Hope you're not too ill.

20% of three of my classes positive. And many more classes I don't teach. Not a word from our PH.

Hope you feel ok @AttaGirrrrl

Depends. Do you think you could decorate with a sore throat and a cough?