Has this one been done before?
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Oh great 
Why is Phil from 'Stenders always in these?
I think CWS says that he uses him to embody the everyman, looking on in disgust.
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I was thinking today- would it be fair to say that our school system, like many of our other systems (supply chains etc…), is geared up for efficiency at the expense of resilience?
My impression is of a curriculum that works for the majority of pupils around an average, and a threshold below which children are considered ‘special needs’. Nothing about it seems set up to cope with an influx of children where almost every child is going to have had a very different experience of the last few months and have their own particular needs, where the curriculum almost needs to be recalibrated weekly, and physical layout of different school buildings creates constraints on how that curriculum is delivered.
@loo?
This is a problem generally. No children are considered special needs without a diagnosis. If children are deemed to be falling behind they may be given interventions covering core subjects but it is usually in the form of a ten minute afternoon booster intervention.
When all kids return teachers will need to individually assess each child to find out where they need to pick up from. This would be possible for teachers moving up a year with their existing class as they are familiar with their pupils and will have assessed them previously.
It will be difficult and time consuming for teachers welcoming a new class of pupils, which will be the case at my school and several others that I know of.
I presume this is possible, but not easy!
My son’s work today involved writing a letter to his new teacher…
A lot of schools that I know of are sticking with transitioning the kids to a new teacher. It highlights how little is really thought of the children. Sending children up with their current teacher is the obvious choice and gives the kids the best opportunity to get over the effects, academic and emotional, of lockdown. Denying them that because of internal politics or staff morale makes me honk🤮
What is driving this decision, in your opinion?
Our teachers certainly appear to genuinely care about the children, the head teachers as well, so my assumption would be that this translates as how little the system thinks of the children and that there must be some constraints or pressure inherent in the system driving this decision.
How the hell do you measure the quality of work managed in that time? We’ve had days where a lot of time as been spent but it certainly doesn’t feel like the return on investment has been high 
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The poor little sods have been stuck at home, unable to go out and see their mates, their parents will have been tetchy at best and really struggling in some cases.
Whilst mine have seemingly coped quite well, and we had nothing more than my grumpy presence at home to spoil things, expecting them to knuckle down to 5 hours of school work whilst their mates don’t is unrealistic. Even the school only really issued 2 hours a day with no hard expectations.
They need easing back into a routine which will be very different to what they remember.
But unfortunately the govt regards state schools as little more than childcare with metrics and will do little to help the non-measurable stuff like mental well-being etc. The fact they want to stop school meals over the summer says plenty
Not the case from a couple of parks near us just now. You almost need to protect teachers from them…
…and how many will have watched their parents marriage break down in minute-by-minute real time…
Who’s a cheery soul then!?
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Proper counselling and marraige guidance services are available, forums are a great place for support sometimes but …
Ah yeah, I see now how that could have come across as a cry for help
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