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Schools Close Shock
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The govt has announced that schools will close on Friday
No exams but assessments will be used to issue certificates
what do people think
(a few are going to complain this q is ever so long)
No exams but assessments will be used to issue certificates
what do people think
(a few are going to complain this q is ever so long)
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I don't know anything about large scale closures of the past and was too young to recall much of the fifties Peter.
18:10 Wed 18th Mar 2020
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I suppose it had to happen, but I don't understand how the logistics are going to work.
Fine, if you work in an industry where you can work from home, but what about parents who are not key workers and have jobs which won't allow them to work from home?
It's going to be complicated, especially as the Prime Minister has said that children "should not be left with older grandparents or older relatives who may be particularly vulnerable to the coronavirus".
I suppose it had to happen, but I don't understand how the logistics are going to work.
Fine, if you work in an industry where you can work from home, but what about parents who are not key workers and have jobs which won't allow them to work from home?
It's going to be complicated, especially as the Prime Minister has said that children "should not be left with older grandparents or older relatives who may be particularly vulnerable to the coronavirus".
// I don't know anything about large scale closures of the pa//
well '58 and '67 were the two obvious choices
and I cant remember being kept at home ..... perhaps I was and didnt notice. 57 I remember people weating useless masks and collecting at street corners gossiping
whereas the 1959 election my brother got a day off - school as polling station and we didnt !
well '58 and '67 were the two obvious choices
and I cant remember being kept at home ..... perhaps I was and didnt notice. 57 I remember people weating useless masks and collecting at street corners gossiping
whereas the 1959 election my brother got a day off - school as polling station and we didnt !
2 of my grandkids already been sent home with minor complaints and I know of at least another dozen kids who have been sent home. One Burnley school has had to suspend Year 9 pupils because of a staff shortage. So it was only a matter of time before schools were officially told to close their doors.
My youngest is 16 and at college, and I have had an email today, that they will be working from home for at least the next month, with online support.
My friends, who still have children at schools, have received emails today, to say that if there are staff shortages, due to the virus, those in GCSE and A Level years, will still go in, as they will be prioritised.
My friends, who still have children at schools, have received emails today, to say that if there are staff shortages, due to the virus, those in GCSE and A Level years, will still go in, as they will be prioritised.
Not a shock. Parents were voting with their (their children's) feet - attendance was falling. And teachers/support staff were off in growing numbers either ill or looking after ill children so some schools had insufficient cover. Pupils were also getting hyper about it and finding it funny to cough, claim to have the virus and continually asking when the school would shut, so it was hard to make lessons productive. We were never going to get through to exam time.
Not a shock. I had hoped that they could stay open until the end of next week, but there we go.
Eldest grandsprog (14) can be home alone, but she has worked so very hard because she has been accelerated to taking French and History GCSEs a year early and got '8s' (old-fashioned 'As')in her mocks. I would expect (as an ex-teacher) that assessment would include the result of the mocks. Hard on those who use the mocks to discover their weaknesses and then work to amend them, but I would, again, hope that teacher assessment would take account of improvements as well.
Lower down, it becomes more woolly. Grandson (Yr. 6)has been an absolute pillock (am I allowed to say that?) and has thought that whatever he produced would 'do'. Last week, I finally managed to disillusion him by setting him a SATS paper and marking to the mark scheme. Deflation resulted, thank goodness, and an understanding that such things as spelling actually matter. He accepted that I would have to work hard with him, and he with me. Trouble is that his teacher will have to work on his efforts so far, which really are rubbish, believe me. I will be long-distance keeping an eye on him, but we will probably have to appeal for a re-assessment in Sept. Tricky one.
Junior granddaughter is in tears because I promised her a pretty fountain-pen if she got on to the 'Hot 100' i.e. knew all her tables. I've telephoned to say that I'll still buy it for her if she can recite all her tables accurately to me over the phone - and she's much happier and working at her 12 x. :)
Eldest grandsprog (14) can be home alone, but she has worked so very hard because she has been accelerated to taking French and History GCSEs a year early and got '8s' (old-fashioned 'As')in her mocks. I would expect (as an ex-teacher) that assessment would include the result of the mocks. Hard on those who use the mocks to discover their weaknesses and then work to amend them, but I would, again, hope that teacher assessment would take account of improvements as well.
Lower down, it becomes more woolly. Grandson (Yr. 6)has been an absolute pillock (am I allowed to say that?) and has thought that whatever he produced would 'do'. Last week, I finally managed to disillusion him by setting him a SATS paper and marking to the mark scheme. Deflation resulted, thank goodness, and an understanding that such things as spelling actually matter. He accepted that I would have to work hard with him, and he with me. Trouble is that his teacher will have to work on his efforts so far, which really are rubbish, believe me. I will be long-distance keeping an eye on him, but we will probably have to appeal for a re-assessment in Sept. Tricky one.
Junior granddaughter is in tears because I promised her a pretty fountain-pen if she got on to the 'Hot 100' i.e. knew all her tables. I've telephoned to say that I'll still buy it for her if she can recite all her tables accurately to me over the phone - and she's much happier and working at her 12 x. :)
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