schools opening when it has snowed!

johnnyl

marisco wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl:

Oh come on now. You expect someone who cant write articulately, in a non aggressive manner with no swear words to be able to spell.

johnnyl you have surpassed yourself now. Fancy writing something in beautiful, huge, bright red letters and not checking your spelling. Total corker.

it was quite obviously not a spelling error but double hitting a letter.

marisco_2

johnnyl wrote: »

it was quite obviously not a spelling error but double hitting a letter.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Most people like others to laugh with them. You choose to write things that get people laughing at you.

By the way sentences start with a capital letter. Was that a keyboard error too?

victory

Oh you two do make me laugh:rotfl:

thegirlintheattic

johnnyl wrote: »

Well what I wouldn't do is close the school then pretend that there were laws that don't really exist to justify me doing it.

Ah, a bit of marking on my night off! But seriously, please look up the definition of legislation and regulation. Then go look at the Health and Safety regulations that require employers to assess and manage risks to staff and service users.

My schools risk assessment is quite clear that to manage many risks students must be adequately supervised. In our school risk assessment we have a minimum staffing level, below which it is unsafe to open the school as there will not be adequate supervision.

Edit: I feel bad about correcting your punctuation, I don't usually correct people on forums but...

johnnyl

ruby-roo wrote: »

Above is your spelling. The correct spelling of the word is disproportionately. So which letter did you double hit?

Can you find them. No neither can I you fool. You put an extra 'O' in after the 'P'. Otherwise known as unable to spell.

have a look where p and o are on a keyboard. I hit them both together.

johnnyl

thegirlintheattic wrote: »

Ah a bit of marking on my night off! But seriously, please look up the definition of legislation and regulation. Then go look at the Health and Safety regulations that require employers to assess and manage risks to staff and service users.

My schools risk assessment is quite clear that to manage many risks students must be adequately supervised. In our school risk assessment we have a minimum staffing level, below which it is unsafe to open the school as there will not be adequate supervision.
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Your on unsound grounds there to lecture me over risk assessment given that I travel up and down the country assessing some of the highest hazard sites in industry. I have probably forgotton more than you have ever even known about risk assessment. When I talk about risk assessment we are talking true risk assessments not the tick box mentality ones that you find in low hazard settings such as schools and offices.

marisco_2

johnnyl wrote: »

making rules up that dont exist to justify the work shy nature of the modern teacher. You can divert the thread anyway you wish, but the above holds true.

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The man who has had nearly all of his posts on this thread removed by the forum team, accuses me of diverting the thread.

I have not made up any rules. I dont need to justify anything to you. Teachers are not work shy, something you would know if you had any understanding at all of how hard they work.

Do any of the teachers on here find that the children you teach, suddenly make sense when you meet their parents? I expect this is especially true in your case johnnyl.

I have removed the crass parts of your post before quoting you. Some of us have standards.

You are now going on my ignore list. There is only so much ignorant bigotry I can read in a day.

thegirlintheattic

johnnyl wrote: »

You're on unsound grounds there to lecture me over risk assessment given that I travel up and down the country assessing some of the highest hazard sites in industry. I have probably forgotten more than you have ever even known about risk assessment. When I talk about risk assessment we are talking true risk assessments not the tick box mentality ones that you find in low hazard settings such as schools and offices.

I actually know quite a bit about high hazard risk assessment, maybe not as much as you, but let me give you an example that you will be familiar with. If the risk assessment for a maintenance procedure requires a minimum number of staff present to carry it out safely, and you do not have those people present, you do not do the procedure.

The core H&S legislation is the same, as are the legal implications, the difference being how many people you might injure/kill if you ignore it and it all goes wrong.

brummiebabe

thegirlintheattic wrote: »

Brummie, at my school (a secondary), we post work for the kids to do on the VLE if the school closes or a significant number of students are off due to the weather. Parents are regularly reminded during the winter that the work is on the VLE but few children actually do it. If some children make it in to school we either do the VLE work with them or do something related to the work we've been doing. So we do our best to ensure no one misses out on a day's education, unfortunately some parents don't put enough emphasis on education and so don't encourage the kids to do the work.

I see the same pattern time and time again - at the end of term we have high absence rates as some parents take the view it's nearly x it won't harm, when kids have a mild cold but are kept home, when holidays are taken during term time with no attempt to catch up with the work (including one two month holiday during an exam year!). There is a similar pattern with homework - calling parents to be told the child does homework in their room or says there is no homework and the parent never checks, getting notes to say the child didn't have time to do the work so they haven't done it, the child doesn't want to do x,y,z so the parent is excusing them from the work. Don't get me wrong most parents are really diligent and work with the school to make sure their children progress, it's a small but significant minority who work against us.

Snow days are certainly not a DVD day here! Our school never allows DVDs or other time wasters regardless on the situation/time of year (unless the DVD is part of the Scheme of Work). That being said it is VERY rare for us to close, our head will only close if there is no food, unsafe site, critically understaffed, no heat or power.

It's nice to hear that it can be managed differently! I would have welcomed some work being set, but this didn't happen for us.

I agree that there are some parents that don't work with schools & it does their children no favours!! I never take my children out of school for holidays, don't keep them off unless they're genuinely ill & ensure they do all homework set...checking planners etc to make sure it's done!! I am always reinforcing the importance of good attendance & getting a good education.....which is why schools shutting frustrates me at times, as it seems to contradict everything i've been drumming into them! I also feel it's unfair that schools get used for local elections - it just seems shutting schools is an 'easy' option.

The weather forecast is talking about it snowing again tonight......my children are already going on about whether the schools will be shut again tomorrow.....gggrrrr.....

thegirlintheattic

brummiebabe wrote: »

It's nice to hear that it can be managed differently! I would have welcomed some work being set, but this didn't happen for us.

I agree that there are some parents that don't work with schools & it does their children no favours!! I never take my children out of school for holidays, don't keep them off unless they're genuinely ill & ensure they do all homework set...checking planners etc to make sure it's done!! I am always reinforcing the importance of good attendance & getting a good education.....which is why schools shutting frustrates me at times, as it seems to contradict everything i've been drumming into them! I also feel it's unfair that schools get used for local elections - it just seems shutting schools is an 'easy' option.

The weather forecast is talking about it snowing again tonight......my children are already going on about whether the schools will be shut again tomorrow.....gggrrrr.....

If you know what they are doing in school, for example the topic in history, geography or science, or the book they are reading in English, maybe get them to do a bit of research. Learning vocab for French or Spanish can also be useful. Even if you only make them do an hour.