NASUWT Lisburn

The odd, growing list of Covid-19 symptoms, explained vox.com/2020/7/29/2132… via @voxdotcom

Britain's failure to learn the hard lessons of its first Covid surge is a disaster | William Hanage #Echobox=1601209456" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Breaking: big jump in positive cases in last 24 hours. 222. Highest in a long long time. More than 900 positive cases in a week. Not all down to testing, big part is virus is spreading

If you are being told to create online lessons for groups of pupils required to stay home due to insufficient staffing, ensure that time is budgeted. Cover is teaching time. You can't be asked to cover during those "freed up" periods and simultaneously create lessons for them.

As Covid-19 cases and mandated isolations rise among pupils in the coming days, so to the pressure on teachers to create online lessons for learners at home. Creating & uploading quality lessons takes time - time that already stressed out teachers working full days do not have.

Children can carry coronavirus in their noses and throats for weeks even if they don't show any symptoms, which might explain how the virus can spread silently, researchers in South Korea reported cnn.it/3lvMS4y

Interesting (and a bit worrying) report from Harvard. news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/…

We are teachers. We do NOT have 12 weeks holiday. We are contracted for work and are paid for 40 weeks - pay is just spread over 52 weeks for permanent staff. Ask any sub teacher here in NI who doesn't get paid over Xmas, Easter, half-terms or the summer. They know the reality.

This is what teachers can do. amp.theguardian.com/education/2020…

A reminder about our AGM tomorrow at The Cardan in Lisburn, beginning with a meeting at 6:30 followed by a meal at 7:30. In addition to the usual agenda, there will be much to discuss, with the new developments at Stormont. Come along, get informed and have your voices heard.

Great turnout tonight at tonight's first meeting of the 2019-20 school year. Hope we have even more members at the next one!

Using teachers moral imperative for children as a lever to make them take more and more is wrong. “We can’t let down these children” and “it comes down to how much difference we can make” are clever bribes for giving a life away.

Very happy for our colleagues in the health service - but teacher pay has also been capped for far too long. NI health staff can get pay rises of more than 1% - bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…