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May 2020
9:40am, 14 May 2020
5,231 posts
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1step2far
Yes, our head of school has already said we should be thankful for just having jobs. (No mention about work load pushing people over the edge).
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May 2020
9:42am, 14 May 2020
1,064 posts
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Grast_girl
Absolutely, DeeGee.
Languages were never my strong point, apparently I still had a Coventry accent when speaking French 
I don't envy you trying to sort social distancing in schools.
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May 2020
9:43am, 14 May 2020
36,425 posts
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LindsD
Me neither. And I'm glad it's not my job to do it at my institution, either
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May 2020
9:46am, 14 May 2020
5,232 posts
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1step2far
Schools trying to SD must be impossible.
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May 2020
10:04am, 14 May 2020
19,291 posts
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DeeGee
I can manage it, mathematically at least, with Reception and Years 1 and 6 in, split the classes in two, Y2 and 3 teachers with R+1, Y5 teachers with Y6, Y4 teachers providing PPA. I can split lunch breaks and we're lucky in that we have two playgrounds, so we can split breaks as well and have one year group in a playground at a time.
However, the existence of a nursery rather scuppers things, and once we start having to incorporate other year groups as well, then we're going to start hoping for good weather and having lots of science stuff outdoors, I think. Certainly can't spread all those kids out throughout our old buildings.
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May 2020
10:07am, 14 May 2020
234 posts
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twinny
Ah, great thread!
I'm pastoral deputy head at a massive high school in a challenging area, though just got a new job as a sole deputy at a school in the the hills for September.
When I'm allowed in the classroom (!!) I'm also a linguist and teach German and French.
We are using Google Classrooms for our students, which I really like. School is still open for vulnerable students though, so I am still going in on a rota basis.
Sorting what we do for Y10's having 'some face to face interaction' with teachers is looking interesting!
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May 2020
10:08am, 14 May 2020
19,292 posts
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DeeGee
It's the little village school with four classes in four classrooms and combined year classes that's going to be the difficult one to do.
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May 2020
10:23am, 14 May 2020
39 posts
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ascoey
I've been teaching since 98. The first 10-12 years were English (and at times, Media + Comms and Culture) in secondary schools. From about 2009 onwards it's mostly been in a sixth form college until becoming part of management across a large merged 6th/FE college. Walked away from the stress and chaos of that and am now teaching bookkeeping and IT in a prison!
We're not allowed through the gates at the moment so I'm working on getting my own qualifications (currently taking Level 3 Computerised Accounting for Business - Sage - the theory is the hard part) and creating work packs to be sent in.
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May 2020
12:11pm, 14 May 2020
13,991 posts
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HowFar?
DeeGee - we have two classes in two classrooms, but we'd manage from a space point of view because I only have 4 children in Year 6. (Two of them are from the same family so they can sit at the same table - although that might be more trouble than it's worth). I'm not sure how we're supposed to teach the classes we have in school and the ones that are at home at the same time though.
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May 2020
12:18pm, 14 May 2020
1,066 posts
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Grast_girl
Hi twinny and ascoey.
It does seem that we end up doing less and less what we trained to do as academics, and apparently as teachers too, the further up the hierarchy we go. Must say our HoD still runs a module though, which is quite unusual.
It would be interesting to hear what it's normally like ascoey. I don't think many of us know much about teaching in prisons.
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