22 Foxhole East

apple_muncher

I giggled at the infestation of animal protein in to a vegan household...!

(I giggled Even more when autocorrect changed that to ingestation!)

Baileys_Babe

Your boys must be so frustrated. I hope the school/s manage to find things to keep those pupils who are up to date engaged instead of them getting bored and disengaging. 

Porridgecat

I've ceased to be surprised at what some families don't have. A protractor would be considered high end academic equipment. During the lockdown our staff went out weekly and set up station in various points in the town to distribute paper, pens and pencils as many students didn't have these at home. 

kerri_gt

Porridgecat said:

I've ceased to be surprised at what some families don't have. A protractor would be considered high end academic equipment. During the lockdown our staff went out weekly and set up station in various points in the town to distribute paper, pens and pencils as many students didn't have these at home. 

My friends little boy had pencils in their take home kits because some families didn't have them. So sad (although half the time i can never find a sodding pen when i need one in this house)

f0xh0les

I am just hoping that the next academic year will return to 'normal', and that sets are brought in, and the kids can move up and down and are not just assigned a set and left there. 

DS3 is rocking his English classes as he watched The Tempest and so has a good working knowledge of the story and characters.

Did a UGuv survey today, and one of the questions was whether I would welcome a longer school day to be brought in for this year so the kids can catch up.  When are they going to get through their stupid custard filled heads,  that the kids are there from just after 8 until 3 and that is long enough.  The lunch break is 30 minutes. You cannot make a tired kid learn. 

If they wanted to do an early morning Saturday school for GCSE and A level specific subjects  that would be fine. But honestly, they come home from school knackered and stressed, hungry and thirsty.  Making them stay another 2 hours would only turn them off completely.  Unless they were all allowed an after lunch nap like in nursery.

Knackered now, I have been heaving boxes about the place all day, now I have spaghetti arms.  DH is claiming exhaustion.  So I came home, had a cuppa, made a chilli for supper, washed up all the dishes and cleaned the kitchen, and now I am on the sofa. 

The budget is out of control - I should not be allowed in a shop - the pantry is heaving, totally stocked up with tins, I need to stop buying things now.  I need to stop eating everything now!

kerri_gt

I'm all for after lunch naps, they're wasted on toddlers who don't want them but the Spanish had the right idea all along. After lunch I could do with a kip.

What boxes have you been moving today? fb or house?

Our budget is all over the place too, i need to switch from winter menu planning to summer grub.

I'm trying to channel your green fingers and grow some tomatoes from supermarket toms. So far i surprisingly have 10 little sprouters which is 10 more than i expected. Long way to go still though. Hopwfully they'll do better than my runners last year that promptly got beheaded by slugs when i left them out one night 

greenbee

We had a long school day - 8.30 - 5.30 BUT we had a lot of sport, so there was a break from the class room after lunch most days (games or other non-academic activities depending on the day of the week). We also had school on Saturday - lessons in the morning, then activities (mine was choir practice) then usually sports matches in the afternoon. 

VintageHistorian

If they increase school hours then the pay off should be no homework. It's unfair to tell kids to do another 2 hours a day and then pile the homework when they have less time at home.

Completely agree about then being tired. I do a standard 9 - 5 and I can guarantee that my best work isn't done after I've been staring at the screen for 6 hours. If it doesn't work for adults then it won't work for kids either.

kerri_gt

I guess it depends whether the school time means less homework. If it were time spent doing supervised 'homework' in the form of lessons that would be different vs extra school hours plus homework on top.

It's also different between those kids who do need the extra school time to catch up because they are significantly behind from home schooling vs those who are reasonably on track or some where they've even benefitted being out of the classroom environment. But how do you ensure those that need the extra support get it without them being singled out as the 'thick kids' - which is what their peers will brand them as, and they'll end up resenting the additional time which is also not productive. 

f0xh0les

I think that as long as the sets work properly, and people are able to move upwards and you are not just assigned a set and then left in it, then it would work.

Just checked the bank balance, and I have a C-19 support payment of £500 from the Tax Credit people.  I quite like this not being eligible - when I was in receipt  I got £7.08 a week. Now I am not, I have received £500 a week. Ok, it has only been a week, but still. I just got 18 months worth in one go.