Evening
I actually slept really well last night, Jack even got up for a wee in the night and it never even woke me! I was having very vivid dreams tho
I got up and left for mum's at 8:15 as she was going out at 9am and I was gonna house sit in case the tiles were delivered. I sat with her before she went out tho :) she went out and I took my laptop up to my bedroom and continued to work on Dorothy Hodgekin, which I can say I got finished!!
She looks alright I think, just got 1 more person to draw then I can work on more of the display
at 10:35 I did half hour of dancing which i enjoyed and did quite well, I then did 10mins of stretching afterwards whilst i waited for mum to come home, when she arrived I went for a much needed shower
I had a cup of tea with her then went home at 12:30
I needed to get back
basically yesterday we support staff in the school which is about 10 members of staff, received a snotty email stating the school were after support staff to help supervise children in the school. So Jack replied with "me and my team are classed as vulnerable so I would prefer it if we didnt help out" besides we helped out last year 'shepparding' the children to different classes so its not like we dont want to help. But being asked to sit with children during these covid times isnt great i guess. To be honest I am actually fine with helping out, my 'concern' was being in a classroom all day - 6 hours - at a desk. As I can not sit there that long.
We received a reply today stating the head teacher had been informed and that we were to have our risk assessments updated today by having a teams meeting with the dept head! what a bitch! So instantly my stomach twisted with anxiety as I felt like I was being persecuted for having something wrong with me. Like I was in trouble or something.
Julia's meeting was at 12:30
Jack's meeting 1pm
mine 1:30pm
so I wanted to get back in time to over hear Jack's meeting XD
I sat next to him whilst the dept head video called him on teams, I said hello so she knew I was there. She said - that they need us to ether supervise children in the classrooms OR test the children for covid!! so its gone from yesterday's ASKING for help to TELLING us to help. And Jack pointed this out and said he wasnt happy about it. It isn't in his job description and he doesnt want to be near children, he doesnt want to supervise children, the situation hasnt been handled well, and he was taking it to his union leader.....
I could tell he was angry.....
She then asked to speak to me, so Jack passed me the tablet over and I had my meeting
she asked how I felt on the matter and how I feel about supervising children. I said that I was fine as I used to be a teaching assistant anyway, my concern was sitting all day. But she told I can move around and leave the room and such so I felt better about that and said I would help. She said that Julia was coming in tomorrow morning to see how everything was ran I said I would come in also (i knew it would help with my anxiety) she said I would be put on the rota for next week
we said our goodbyes. Jack looked like he could breathe fire. I left him for a while....then went to go check up on him. He had been emailing his union leader. He doesnt want to do this and cant understand why we cant just keep working the way we have to. That its gone from asking for help, to telling us. And the choice is supervision or testing. He just feels its wrong and they went about it poorly.
I rang my mum and let her know how we got on she said it wasnt good the way the school have handled that.
I managed to get Jack out for a half hour walk thinking the fresh air would help him as he was very much stewing on it all.
I had a bit of a rest on the bed in the afternoon and then did dinner which was just reheating leftovers. We do this on a thursday as jack has his nerdery online at 6ish so hes doing that right now. I usually get left for several hours by myself but the bathroom is a bit out of commission so I have asked mum if i can shower at hers, again, tonight then i will plate my hair so it takes the night to dry and hopefully it wont look too crap come the morning!
So I am off too mum's shortly and I am gonna take my Ozwald with me and he can have some fuss and things. Then I will bring him home and I will probably go to bed or something.
Tomorrow
we are getting up for school
jack has said that whilst we are at school we might as well do a full day >.>
so depending on if julia stays we will ether continue with yesterdays work or i have other things i can be getting on with. Ether way I am stuck at school :/
we are of course dropping Oz off for daycare in the morning and picking him up after school :)
