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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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Hercisback · 02/10/2021 13:56

Been teaching 11 years noble. No one really believes me when I say that though!

Directed time increases would also come with more shit to do. It wouldn't be 'ah so we can now direct you for 100 more hours per year so you have to mark for 2 hours on a Wednesday after school'. It would be 'teach an extra 2 hours after school' leading to more planning, marking etc. Hopefully the unions are on it and strikes will happen.

noblegiraffe · 02/10/2021 14:09

Been teaching 11 years noble. No one really believes me when I say that though!

Can’t imagine why! Grin I don’t know how you’ve managed to stay so youthful after a decade of teaching.

borntobequiet · 02/10/2021 14:10

I didn’t have any interactions with them because they had the relevant GCSEs (and hadn’t lost certificates!) but I know of a couple of ex-teachers who were on electrical and plumbing apprenticeships.

Appuskidu · 02/10/2021 14:13

Has there been any news on LFD tests in school ending now it’s October?

noblegiraffe · 02/10/2021 15:14

The operational guidance was updated on 27th September and says "Testing remains important in reducing the risk of transmission of infection within schools. That is why, whilst some measures are relaxed, others will remain, and if necessary, in response to the latest epidemiological data, we all need to be prepared to step measures up or down in future depending on local circumstances.

Staff and secondary school pupils should continue to test twice weekly at home, with lateral flow device (LFD) test kits, 3 to 4 days apart. Testing remains voluntary but is strongly encouraged.

There is no need for primary age pupils (those in year 6 and below) to test.

Secondary schools should also retain a small asymptomatic testing site (ATS) on-site until further notice so they can offer testing to pupils who are unable to test themselves at home."

It does say in the updates at the top that it has been updated since 27th August to "set out the latest policy on asymptomatic testing" so maybe that's it?

noblegiraffe · 02/10/2021 16:01

This story is awful, 15 year old dies of covid myocarditis the day she was due to get the vaccine at school. www.thesun.co.uk/news/16308491/schoolgirl-dies-covid-vaccinated/

MrsHamlet · 02/10/2021 16:06

That is so very sad.

DanglingMod · 02/10/2021 16:11

So terribly sad. A poster on another thread said a child in their class's six year old cousin has also just died of Covid.

Piggywaspushed · 02/10/2021 16:13
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Appuskidu · 02/10/2021 17:05

@noblegiraffe

The operational guidance was updated on 27th September and says "Testing remains important in reducing the risk of transmission of infection within schools. That is why, whilst some measures are relaxed, others will remain, and if necessary, in response to the latest epidemiological data, we all need to be prepared to step measures up or down in future depending on local circumstances.

Staff and secondary school pupils should continue to test twice weekly at home, with lateral flow device (LFD) test kits, 3 to 4 days apart. Testing remains voluntary but is strongly encouraged.

There is no need for primary age pupils (those in year 6 and below) to test.

Secondary schools should also retain a small asymptomatic testing site (ATS) on-site until further notice so they can offer testing to pupils who are unable to test themselves at home."

It does say in the updates at the top that it has been updated since 27th August to "set out the latest policy on asymptomatic testing" so maybe that's it?

Thanks for the post-that’s good, I really thought they were going to scrap the tests to ‘prove’ covid had vanished in schools.
DanglingMod · 02/10/2021 17:26

Unlike me to miss an update to the guidance but I did know we handed out new test boxes to all at the end of the week.

RuleWithAWoodenFoot · 02/10/2021 17:40

@noblegiraffe

I am incapable of doing mental arithmetic when put on the spot. Oh, you've got a maths degree, you can work out how much we each need to pay on this restaurant bill...thank god we now have phones with calculators.
Two years after finishing my civil engineering masters, I won an award at the end of season party for the only holiday rep to get their accounts wrong every week of the season. Dead proud.

Still don't know my 7x tables.

borntobequiet · 02/10/2021 17:51

I’ve been fascinated for years with the idea that you can be good with numbers but not with maths and vice versa. I think a sense of number (or quantity) is innate, but understanding of the systems we use to represent and manipulate numbers isn’t.
I’m teaching someone (an adult) at present who literally couldn’t differentiate between the outline and the inside of a shape. He sees a sort of gestalt, a whole. Well he’s getting better but still has to stop, think, and trace the outline with his finger, then think of it as a series of straight lines to be measured. This doesn’t happen automatically as it does for most people once shown.

JanglyBeads · 02/10/2021 18:11

My area had 1 in 16 10-14 year olds testing positive last week - and then there’s the ones that don’t test….
www.northamptonchron.co.uk/health/coronavirus/unreal-one-in-16-kettering-children-test-positive-for-covid-in-a-week-as-school-cases-rise-3404110?fbclid=IwAR0dx7Rg2u4zDe3fPg_EPu9z-83Uis3NKNatz4M4aZLuLmq4mK7JpKAnZPY

borntobequiet · 02/10/2021 18:43

Unreal is the word, except it’s real. Jan that’s beyond shocking.

JanglyBeads · 02/10/2021 19:46

We’re all about following the crowd: those figures include my DS - predictably it moved up a generation to me.

My brother died of Covid (although was at end of life already) two days before the peak day for deaths in January.

borntobequiet · 02/10/2021 20:29

Jan Flowers

Sureitwillbegrand · 02/10/2021 20:32

Sorry to hear @JanglyBeads.
whispers we have two more days with DD and no infection transmission so far.

JanglyBeads · 02/10/2021 21:32

How old is yr DD Sure ? We chose not to isolate DS, I wonder if it actually would have made a difference or not if we had.

JanglyBeads · 02/10/2021 22:10

(I meant, not to isolate him within the house!)

Sureitwillbegrand · 02/10/2021 22:32

She's 14 and no did not make her isolate. Both me and DH jabbed but DD2 is not yet.

Sureitwillbegrand · 02/10/2021 22:33

@JanglyBeads

(I meant, not to isolate him within the house!)
I did have to do a double check when you said not isolate Grin. She's not much of a hugger and we didn't let her make us any food!
noblegiraffe · 02/10/2021 23:14

Oh that makes sense now. The idea of bringing back KS3 SATs is because current Y7 and 8 didn’t sit KS2 SATs and they need some data so they can do progress 8 and league tables.

JanglyBeads · 02/10/2021 23:20

And where would we be without league tables…..