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Do you mean £5.99 per TB, because £6 for 5TB is way better than I've seen anywhere else.

For a second I thought we were getting a season 2. I swear this series has been released about 3 times now.

Eaton have a pretty good range of Lithium UPSs. https://www.eaton.com/us/en-us/catalog/backup-power-ups-surge-it-power-distribution/eaton-5p-ups.facets$4070056489$1366315245.html#tab-2.html

Yeah, I'm down for that. In fact we should replace all the keys with copilot keys (apart from the spacebar and maybe Pg Down)!

In the old buildings we have 250w Eaton Eclipse UPSs in the smaller/wall mounted cabs (mostly for power protection, rather than uptime). They're pretty compact and not too heavy. In the new(er) build, we've got these surge protectors on the small wall cabs. But they were put in by the builders so I'm not sure how much help they actually are.

You'd have to use signed for delivery, then you'd have proof the letter was delivered to someone at the recipient address. I wonder what the ruling would be if they (apparently) lost your letter internally.

Morning all, We'd been hoping to switch out xibo player machines to using linux in advance of the windows 10 retirement (the mini-pcs we're using at the moment are way too old to run win11). But it turns out the linux player is terrible at embedded webpages. They either don't load properly or don't load at all, and the player looks to be about 3 years and 2 versions old (at least in the repo all the guides point me to). So what are you guys doing for xibo players/what options do I have for low/no cost xibo players that will work with an on-site installation? Thanks.

This is the best (or at least clearest) I've seen is 25l of extraction per square-meter of floor space, or 3.75 room air changes per hour from xerox. https://www.xerox.com/downloads/usa/en/e/ehs_FactsaboutVentilation.pdf And this has some good technical information (although less clear on advice) https://www.ohsrep.org.au/office_hazards_photocopiers_printers_etc# HS aside, running hot and dusty isn't going to be good for the printers either.

The general consensus is to use that catch-all piece of punctuation, the em-dash — At least that's what my online writing group thinks.

Out and out one of the best episodes of TV I've seen in a long time.

We use Smart SB60 series boards throughout the school (SLT was on board with having a standard "teacher wall" across the school which makes it all nice and easy for us). While I can't say they've been hassle free, we've never had a problem with latency or responsiveness with SMART interactive screens.

Do you really think knowing a new keyboard and mouse costs £3.65 is going to stop the kids? The only thing that will stop this is a teacher taking ownership of the classroom and it's resources. In my experience, if you can get a teacher based in the computer room they'll start taking issues like this seriously pretty fast. If it has to stay a shared room, then usage logs, check-sheets, and billing the departments for damage is really the only way I've seen to get teachers invested enough to stay on top of it. (or you don't repair/replace the damaged kit and let it become unusable) Regardless of how you do it, you really do need to push this back to the teachers.

But in-year transfers happen all the time, so there is clearly a precedent and a pre-existing procedure for this. (current students who are moving to a new school should be the easy part)

True, the govt would probably have invest a bunch in schools help to create these facilities, but that sounds less expensive than building whole new schools.

I assume we'd be talking about this happening at secondary phase. So you've got their performance at primary school as an assessment tool. Plus you could ask the parents. They've known the kid for 11 years and probably have an idea of where their aptitude lies. My worry if it were separate schools and wholly down pupil/parent choice, is that they'd just want to go where their friends are going. And even if guidance from schools and parents did push them the other way, would they get more benefit from going to (for example) academic school with their friends where they don't do very well but enjoy it. Or trade school where they do pretty well but hate it. Ultimately, you'd probably only find this sort of thing out in hindsight. I don't disagree with anything you're saying and completely agree about them needing to be proper, recognized qualifications. I just think it would offer better flexibility if both sides were taught in the same school.

How would you deal with someone who wants to go the academic route, but would clearly get more benefit from the technical one, or visa-versa? Maybe more vocational courses in school generally would could work so you can have everyone taking the same academic core (Maths, English) but can mix and match academic and practical classes to their own preference or skills. Seemingly odd combinations like plumbing and advanced maths might go together really well for some people.

I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this, but do you guys let students charge their phones in your/the ICT office? We used to lend the occasional charging cable out, but it got a bit ridiculous and the cables started not coming back, so we changed our policy to, they could leave the phone on charge in the ICTNS office (turned off). But now it's getting stupid again and I think we should stop. But this has to go through the head because the school is worried parents will kick off if we just start saying no (and because everything has to go through the head), so now i need a quick straw pole of how many other schools charge phones for students.

+1 for Bodet. We've been running Bodet for 6-7 years now (mostly for lesson changeover and more recently for lockdown). Works really well and have never had any real problems with it. You just need to plan where you're going to put your sounders so they can be heard in all the classrooms. Being able to do this is so useful. We also use it to play the Big Ben chimes and last post for Nov 11th, and have separate schedules for the last day of autumn and summer terms (with Christmassy bells at Christmas).

We've tried, the problem is that there will always be perfectly reasonable exceptions and the kids will exploit them to the max. We looked at locking the toilets, but we have so many around the site, it would take most of a lesson to go around and lock/unlock them all. But what can schools do? Most of our naughty kids are so disengaged they don't care about any sanctions the school can apply.

It can get pretty bad. I remember going into a classroom with holes punched in the wall, the (brand new) blinds ripped down and stuffed in the heaters, all the drawers ripped out the teacher's desk, and the door ripped half-off it's hinges by an angry year 11. Oh wait, that was back in the 90s. We've seen a noticeable rise in bad behavior since the lockdowns, but it feels more listless. Sure we get some fights and kids smashing things (probably more than we used to), but most of the time they just want to mooch around and not go to lessons. It's not like they're even bucking off-site to the shops or wherever, they just sit around outside or wander the hallways looking bored until a teacher tries to chivvy them back to lesson (or what ever alternative provision space they're supposed to go), then they either get bolshy, or run off and try to play cat and mouse with the teachers.

You could probably replicate everything you have from free Google with the A1 licenses. Although the trust may want you to have additional features like MFA then you'd need P1 or A3 licenses for (1 per staff user). There's no reason you couldn't keep using the Chromebooks as you do now. (You'd probably just need to maintain your google accounts alongside your MS ones - we do this, it's not that hard, they just both sync from AD) If it happens and if they want you to move, then lean on the other schools in the trust or the trust's central IT team to help with the migration setup and training (it's the least they can do if they want you to move).

Boo! Someone should explain the meaning of perpetual to them. What precipitated you asking them about your license? I unless they contacted us, or the license stopped working (neither of which have happened yet), I wouldn't think to check.

If you want to use screen reading, then I think EWP can do that (AFAIK it hooks the windows narrator). We've always used it in "full screen" kiosk type mode, for the most distraction free experience, but it can run in normal window alongside other applications.

It might be more in line that the parents are told that we will have a photo of them in the MIS, but it will just be in the MIS (I'm not invloved in that part). In that one case where the parent did kick up a fuss about the MIS photo (which was about 10 years ago and they didn't think they were with us for that long), no I don't think we had a photo of them in the MIS and it was pre us having an CCTV, so the school really didn't have any photographic record of them.

Short answer, yes, our photo and video consent covers all photos and videos for any use. Longer answer, we have always had a general consent to be photographed/videoed in school, with one-time consent for students to appear to promo, website/prospectus photos. More recently, our general consent has expanded to include consent for the publication of photos (for example on social media). If a parent doesn't agree to the general consent, they CANNOT be photographed or videoed, ever, for any reason, and if they are found to appear in any photos or videos, they should either be removed or the photo/video destroyed*. They should never appear in any school photographs or videos, even if they're just slated for internal use. Realistically, there's a chance that these photos might end up on displays for opening evening, or just pinned up in a classroom and seen during a parent tour or by and external contractors. A list of students without photo consent is available for all staff to check before they take any photos to help with this. These cases are comparatively rare for us (maybe 1-2 per year group), and AFAIK when they come up the school reaches out to ask if we can keep a single ID photo just in our MIS for safeguarding. Which is IMO, the only place where legitimate use could be cited. In the 10+ years I've been here, this has been denied once. Consider that if you share something, even just with parents and carers, you loose control over it. *The only exception I know of is the CCTV which is restricted and all access documented inline with GDPR etc, etc. I don't know what would happen if a "no-photo" student wanted to take GCSE PE or drama where they're filmed for assessment. I guess it would be discussed with the family when the student is choosing their GCSE options.