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pfb -in fact only child - off to secondary on Thursday...

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MaryAnnSingleton · 02/09/2008 08:07

am being calm but every so often panic strikes me - ds is fine about it, it's just me fretting about roads to cross/ money for the canteen - will it get lost/stolen, what about the lockers, arghhh ! Plus,as with the beginning of every term,I'll miss him - I love having him here in the holidays !
It also means that I have no excuses not to sit at my desk and work on the job I'm meant to finish by the end of Seot...

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magentadreamer · 09/10/2008 07:14

Thats really good news OrmIrian. DDs school often gets compared unfavourably to the other local(ish)and was in a very similar situation about 5 years ago when no one wanted to send their DC's there. Over the years and under the present headship it's attainment at Ks3 and Gcse is practically the same. But given prior attainment and it's deprived catchment area DD's school as probably worked harder to get the levels it has got iyswm. It still has the label in the playground at Primary as not being very good but hopefully with this years results etc parents might realise it's not the "bad" school it's made out to be. apart from the homework niggle I'm really glad I sent DD there as she seems to be thriving.

DD went to the Art club on Tuesday after school - it's sculpturing for year 7-9 and had a ball. I had visions of her with safetly googles, a hammer and chisel in her hand creating master peices out of a block of stone

OrmIrian · 08/10/2008 15:49

DS#1's school was ofstedededed last month ("as you are aware", the letter said. Well we weren't - DS tells us nowt ) And it was judged as outstanding. Despite being in a deprived ward, inspite of many pupils starting with lower than average academic levels. It also improved it's a-cs grades at GCSE to pull it out of the National challenge school category! This is a school that no-one wanted to send their DC to 10 yrs ago. Now it's oversubscribed. Head teacher is a bloody miracle worker!

bellavita · 08/10/2008 15:11

I do that all the time

MorticiaAnnSpookington · 08/10/2008 15:09

no, though I do catch myself humming and muttering in a bit of a senile way !

bellavita · 08/10/2008 14:58

hope you did not say it out loud?

MorticiaAnnSpookington · 08/10/2008 14:41

thank you it came to me in the high street !

bellavita · 08/10/2008 14:40

Love the name MAS

MorticiaAnnSpookington · 08/10/2008 14:35

hope he has a brilliant time Orm.. ds goes for a 2 day one next Friday - I was fretting but the lovely teacher organising rang me to reassure after I'd sent an email with a few queries
Also ds has got a Commended certificate for a piece of creative writing done for a local competition

bellavita · 08/10/2008 13:05

I think it is a fab idea.

OrmIrian · 08/10/2008 13:03

Thanks

They arrange it this early so that the new classes get to know each other. Sort of bonding thing I suppose.

bellavita · 08/10/2008 13:00

3 day camp this quick into Yr7 wow.

I am sure Ds1 would be excited too.

Hope he has a good time

OrmIrian · 08/10/2008 12:58

DS#1 is off for a 3-day camp. Very excited. Hoping it's not going to rain much more though.

magentadreamer · 07/10/2008 21:41

DD informs me they do the resistant thingy, plus cooking and textile design - I never realised that was a fancy name for needlework!

bellavita · 06/10/2008 21:31

Ds's school is called an Arts and Crafts College, so I think they do quite a bit, although not sure what

roisin · 06/10/2008 21:15

How many Tech subjects do they do in yr7 generally? I've no idea what ds1 will do, he simply has 'Tech' on his timetable.

The school I work at is a Tech College, so they may do extra. In yr7 they do a session in each of:
Food Tech (what we called cookery)
Textiles (needlework)
Resistant Materials (metalwork)
Design and Technology (mostly woodwork)
Electronics (didn't exist when I was at school - they hadn't invented electricity!)

magentadreamer · 06/10/2008 21:07

Oh dear! DD is doing Resistant thingy wiggy - her words not mine this term I'm really looking forward to cookery and fishing it out of her bag.... NOT!

DD has been given German Homework -to do a PowerPoint presentation on Berlin eeeeeek@messing about with PowerPoint! I hope she's had some lessons on it cos I'm rbbish at it!

bellavita · 06/10/2008 21:04
Grin
bellavita · 06/10/2008 21:03

never mind poured in, poured out, are the hot things going to be "cook - chilled" or will they be sat there festering till hometime?

We are expected to eat these things!

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MaryAnnSingleton · 06/10/2008 21:01

the fruit salad had to be poured out the other week

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roisin · 06/10/2008 19:35

poured in and poured out! LOL!

magentadreamer · 06/10/2008 19:00

I hope so... I just have visions of pasta bakes/crumbles being poured into school bags!

bellavita · 06/10/2008 18:47

We are hoping that they are giving careful advice about such things to students.......

roisin · 06/10/2008 18:35

Bleurrgghhh...! I'm just imagining re-heated pasta bake too.

ds1 is not over-endowed with common sense, and I really could imagine him just sticking a fruit crumble in the bottom of his haversack (the right way up at first...).

I expect food tech teachers are used to giving students careful advice about these things though?

bellavita · 06/10/2008 18:27

Imagine what Ds's pasta bake is going to look like next week!

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MaryAnnSingleton · 06/10/2008 18:20

he finds the lids of those things tricky to open/close, so I think I might send him in with a big piece of foil to wrap round it and a bag for life to carry it in. DT is first thing so I guess it'll sit in the cookery room until home time ?

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