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.

Rule I took the quote from that mum, also citing MH concerns, as being a good, sensible parent, pushing back against U4T types?

Checking in and flagging that I am on my fourth period of cover this week.

Emailed union rep - famously so useless that a new member of staff didn’t realise we even had one, so offered to step in…

Me positive this morning in addition to DS who’s on day 7.

Grabbed PCR asap - partly to justify my taking DD to school (!) - test centre saying five days for results!! But we are in a current covid capital….

Hope you’re okay @JanglyBeads

@motherrunner - we’ve held off teaching one text as we suspect it won’t be needed, but we could do with an announcement soon so that we can squeeze it in if necessary. Do you think parents even realise that this late in their children’s courses, their teachers don’t know what they need to teach them? It’s ludicrous!

Thanks attagirl and sorry you’re feeling rough.

Bloody hell.

Kids don’t spread covid? This is the worst it’s ever been in secondary.

Vaccines don’t work? Look at sixth form.

Could not be any clearer, eh noble?!

Jan so sorry about your result. Rest easy

I have sneezed a few times today. Let’s hope that’s the extent of my symptoms!

I feel bad that there are a few kids I’ve had conversations with over the last couple of days who I can’t suggest go for a PCR/ keep away from their gran or whoever. Even when I get my PCR result (presuming positve) and T&T ring me, how do I give names and contact details? I can’t. Whereas close colleagues /one regular school visitor I’m emailing now. The latter already has a positive teen at home and seemed quite relaxed so I don’t feel too bad about her.

However the unmasked private company nurse who gave me my flu jab yesterday and has probably spent today jabbing others…. I got HR to ring the company!

Checking in and flagging that I am on my fourth period of cover this week

Crikey Denby that’s shocking. You must be knackered.

Hope you don’t feel too bad Jangly

nobel it doesn’t spread in school my arse. I think the bbc says 1 in 20 secondary school kids have Covid.

But there aren’t any cases at my child’s school…. BOLLOCKSY BOLLOCKS. You just haven’t been informed as per the nationwide gaslighting master plan. Those graphs are very telling.

I did four this week too. Better than last week's 5 though 😂

www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/oct/01/dfe-considering-return-of-sats-at-14-and-axing-teaching-hours-limits?fbclid=IwAR2SNY0R3QiLrQQIjrbNQyr0sl_lb6QSaIuWqs3N8i4VHqm5DWYNKyJdNbc

What could possibly go wrong?

We’d go on strike, right? That would be such a piss take.

Wow.

@noblegiraffe

We’d go on strike, right? That would be such a piss take.

You’d hope this would mean enough teachers would vote for a strike- what does the turnout have to be?

What a fucking shower of shite.

I bloody would.

I’m not sure I’d even strike. I might just leave.

You’d hope this would mean enough teachers would vote for a strike
Except I don't think they would. Because we're all "in it for the kids".
I would strike.

I'd strike. I did last time and I will again.

@AttaGirrrrl

I’m not sure I’d even strike. I might just leave.

There's always that.

I kind of agree that KS3 has been lost but don't think the solution is more testing. We need to rid ourselves of this testing culture! It'll juts be more teaching to the test and you can guarantee they will be like mini GCSEs anyway.

I have gone on strike several times since qualifying in the 90s, and would do again. I think I would rather leave, though!

Ks3 has been lost because the only performance measured rely on cold hard attainment data. There's no space for learning stuff for the sake of learning, or enjoying the breadth of a topic. Instead it's fill them up quick with stuff they'll need for GCSEs.

That sounds so sad when you express it that bluntly. And so true.

Found this in Schoolsweek:

*The Department for Education (DfE) has quietly updated the responsibilities of its new ministerial team.

While they remain largely similar, there are some notable changes – with social mobility and reducing teacher workload no longer explicitly mentioned.

“Reducing teacher workload” is also no longer listed among schools minister Robin Walker’s remit.

But officials stressed it had not been de-prioritised and instead fell under his continued role of “supporting a high-quality teaching profession”*