[Search & Destroy]

plannerj, on 22 April 2020 - 08:50 AM, said:

A mixture of sense and nonsense from you this morning. You’re spot on about Cheltenham, but you mustn’t stop the toffs enjoying themselves. The virus WAS spread there for sure. On the teachers’ holidays to be taken now, what holidays can anyone take right now? A silly comment and you know it.

Many firms are instructing their staff to take paid holidays now, whilst the business isn’t open, it’s entirely lawful to request this

[mr. smith]

https://www.msn.com/...ocid=spartandhp

hopefully just teething problems.

This post has been edited by mr. smith: 22 April 2020 - 09:08 AM

[calvin plummers socks]

Search and Destroy, on 22 April 2020 - 09:01 AM, said:

Many firms are instructing their staff to take paid holidays now, whilst the business isn’t open, it’s entirely lawful to request this

Did a teacher bully you at school?

[moondog]

Search and Destroy, on 22 April 2020 - 09:01 AM, said:

Many firms are instructing their staff to take paid holidays now, whilst the business isn’t open, it’s entirely lawful to request this

Our football club has done this, albeit I think temporary until the Furlough is sorted

[calvin plummers socks]

Search and Destroy, on 22 April 2020 - 09:01 AM, said:

Many firms are instructing their staff to take paid holidays now, whilst the business isn’t open, it’s entirely lawful to request this

Did a teacher bully you at school?

[Search & Destroy]

calvin plummers socks, on 22 April 2020 - 09:12 AM, said:

Did a teacher bully you at school?

No mate, I just knew after 4 weeks off while still on full pay there would’ be very little support for the kids

My son is 14, plays football pretty well and plays tennis decently, is taking GCSE PE

This is what came through on Show My Homework this morning

Standing 2 metres away from a wall with a ball, how many successful catches can you do in 60 seconds?
The Rules
1. The ball must be a tennis ball or similar size. 
2. Stand 1 metre away from a wall
3. With each throw you alternate the throwing hand from left to right. (see the youtube link below) 
3. To count in the competition you must display your timer in the video

4 weeks to come up with that

[calvin plummers socks]

Search and Destroy, on 22 April 2020 - 09:52 AM, said:

No mate, I just knew after 4 weeks off while still on full pay there would’ be very little support for the kids

My son is 14, plays football pretty well and plays tennis decently, is taking GCSE PE

This is what came through on Show My Homework this morning

Standing 2 metres away from a wall with a ball, how many successful catches can you do in 60 seconds?
The Rules
1. The ball must be a tennis ball or similar size. 
2. Stand 1 metre away from a wall
3. With each throw you alternate the throwing hand from left to right. (see the youtube link below) 
3. To count in the competition you must display your timer in the video

4 weeks to come up with that

Is he year 10 or 11?
If year 11 his PE GCSE will be obviously based on coursework.
Has he done his moderation yet?


Edit
If 14 he’ll be year 10?

Get him to learn the 11 muscles required to know (easy but often an issue in exam time).
Get him to go over and over Components of fitness.
(Big exam points for both those)

Also get him to research circuit training and look at some ideas. (Check it’s on curriculum though still)- if so I’ll give some tips on that

This post has been edited by calvin plummers socks: 22 April 2020 - 09:57 AM

[isleaiw1]

Search and Destroy, on 22 April 2020 - 09:01 AM, said:

Many firms are instructing their staff to take paid holidays now, whilst the business isn’t open, it’s entirely lawful to request this

And if not furloughed - if staff arent as busy as normal then you can ask them to make sure they are up to date with hols for when we are back to normal. That is what we are doing....

[azul]

moondog, on 22 April 2020 - 06:53 AM, said:

It's not the best, but the valid point for me is that sections of the media go beyond scruitiny and holding the Government to account.

Similarly on Social Media platforms such as this many make contributions from a Politically biased standpoint which don't give a balanced view.

In an unprecedented crisis like this all Governments will make mistakes, they will also get some things right.

Some are unable or unwilling to provide this balance to their views and accordingly I don't think they have the audience they may perceive that they have.

I don't know why you posted the link then - why not just post what you've just said, you said it far more eloquently than that 'article'

But it is about time proper questions are asked - and proper answers given.

I'm personally glad parliament is back, it will pressure the goverment to tell the truth. Also useful will be the select committees, where involved parties get grilled. We might even get to hear the names of these mysterious people constituting SAGE and what there advice actually is.

I guess you won't be, because the nasty opposition will have the opportunity to ask questions.

This post has been edited by azul: 22 April 2020 - 12:18 PM

[azul]

So Scotland has recorded 1062 official deaths but have 1616 suspected deaths where Covid was mentioned on the death certificate, thats about 60% more

Imagine if you extrapolate that nationwide

[The Earl of Chesterfield]

moondog, on 22 April 2020 - 09:36 AM, said:

Our football club has done this, albeit I think temporary until the Furlough is sorted

We've been told we must take holidays accrued during furlough, during furlough, or they'll be lost.

To be fair my employer's been spot on throughout - my union's pretty hot on such stuff, too - so I'm guessing that's across the board...

[The Earl of Chesterfield]

azul, on 22 April 2020 - 11:58 AM, said:

I don't know why you posted the link then - why not just post what you've just said, you said it far more eloquently than that 'article'

But it is about time proper questions are asked - and proper answers given.

I'm personally glad parliament is back, it will pressure the goverment to tell the truth. Also useful will be the select committees, where involved parties get grilled. We might even get to hear the names of these mysterious people constituting SAGE and what there advice actually is.

I guess you won't be, because the nasty opposition will have the opportunity to ask questions.

To return to the author's claims of knowing the public mood, I spoke to a mate whilst out jogging this morning (socially distant, of course). Now he's a Daily Mail reading tory voter but his first comment was 'We've been lied to'.

And for what it's worth he didn't mean the Chinese, either...

[jack'smyboy]

Search and Destroy, on 22 April 2020 - 07:44 AM, said:

Text from school this morning

In response to requests for online, video conference lessons for students. We have decided as a school that there were too many safeguarding risks and
potential technical issues along with teachers own child care arrangements to deliver this style of lesson.

I thought teachers were still on full pay and working?

Scottish Swimming tried video conferencing in the first couple of days of lockdown, it resulted in a huge apology and a reminder of the contact details of their welfare staff, in case anyone was affected by what they saw...

Funnily enough, I've not long had to read our Coronavirus safeguarding addendum.

The document had a whole section on why video conference was unsuitable for lesson delivery. I thought a lot of them were very obvious with an ounce of logic and common sense, but that appears to have passed you by.

[azul]

The Earl of Chesterfield, on 22 April 2020 - 12:32 PM, said:

We've been told we must take holidays accrued during furlough, during furlough, or they'll be lost.

To be fair my employer's been spot on throughout - my union's pretty hot on such stuff, too - so I'm guessing that's across the board...

That’s not what others are saying is it? You are saying only leave accrued during the furlough must be taken, in practical terms, no annual leave accrued during furlough.

For starters, S&D was suggesting all leave should be taken during furlough wasn’t he?

[azul]

The Earl of Chesterfield, on 22 April 2020 - 12:50 PM, said:

To return to the author's claims of knowing the public mood, I spoke to a mate whilst out jogging this morning (socially distant, of course). Now he's a Daily Mail reading tory voter but his first comment was 'We've been lied to'.

And for what it's worth he didn't mean the Chinese, either...

I have seen a few critical headlines, even in that paper though.

I’m sure a majority of people want to know the truth, be it good or bad and not the sugar coated or the blindly optimistic stuff that gets chucked out. Having said that there is still a sizeable minority who lap it up, in this country and elsewhere

This post has been edited by azul: 22 April 2020 - 01:12 PM

[Search & Destroy]

To be fair, our company initially suggested (before Furlough was announced) that we would have to take holiday during shutdown , now we are furloughed that’s not the case, they’ve been great so far, made the money up to 100%, holidays accrued normally

I’m just annoyed with the school, so much time to arrange stuff and it’s generic easy homework, we are trying to keep some sort of routine at home so Mon to Fri in different to the weekend and a proper structured school day would help.

[Search & Destroy]

azul, on 22 April 2020 - 01:11 PM, said:

I have seen a few critical headlines, even in that paper though.

I’m sure a majority of people want to know the truth, be it good or bad and not the sugar coated or the blindly optimistic stuff that gets chucked out. Having said that there is still a sizeable minority who lap it up, in this country and elsewhere

Maybe the whole truth of what. could happen is to terrible to contemplate, we all sort of know what could happen, but a public declaration could cause panic

Matt Hancock could say this afternoon
Lockdown could last 2 years
We could have 250k deaths
Many business will close
No schools back till October
No cure in sight
10% unemployment
Not enough NHS capacity
Doctors will decide who gets a ventilator

All could happen, that’s the truth but should he say that?

[calvin plummers socks]

Search and Destroy, on 22 April 2020 - 01:22 PM, said:

Maybe the whole truth of what. could happen is to terrible to contemplate, we all sort of know what could happen, but a public declaration could cause panic

Matt Hancock could say this afternoon
Lockdown could last 2 years
We could have 250k deaths
Many business will close
No schools back till October
No cure in sight
10% unemployment
Not enough NHS capacity
Doctors will decide who gets a ventilator

All could happen, that’s the truth but should he say that?

And all because Boris Johnson f**ed up at the start.

Did you get the message about PE GCSE I sent earlier

[Search & Destroy]

calvin plummers socks, on 22 April 2020 - 01:32 PM, said:

And all because Boris Johnson f**ed up at the start.

Did you get the message about PE GCSE I sent earlier

Yes thank you, he’s doing his travel and tourism this morning and I’m going to check his GCSE PE this afternoon

[moondog]

The Earl of Chesterfield, on 22 April 2020 - 07:59 AM, said:

True. The overwhelming majority have done the right thing and just got on with it (unlike those morons in the States, by the way). Folk usually pull behind the 'powers that be' at times of crisis though, it's a psychological thing with them seeking some sort if stability and certainty. But what's noticeable is that criticisms - or at the very least stories countering the official narrative - have emerged from usually pro-tory papers.

Number Ten have responded strongly given monday's rebuttal of the Sunday Times' report and this latest u-turn. However public opinion doesn't just happen - it's manufactured. Let's see how long it stays behind Bozo and Co if their allies continue to desert them...

I don't think it's about pulling behind the powers that be but getting what they need to do. The only psychology applying is common sense by the vast majority, which is not a manufactured fact.