Educating Greater Manchester

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Just love this series.

Rani

I'm watching.

I hate all this "love" stuff amongst the year 7s. I know it's not serious but the kids take it so seriously and it properly affects them, not just in school but emotionally. Like that Lewis "pranking" Lilly pretending to be Jacob. Err no! He wasn't pranking. He was testing her to see what she would say back thinking she was talking to Jacob. Horrible. At 11 years old!

It seemed to work out ok with Tia as his behaviour improved. Dd is quiet and well behaved and she was put next to a boy in English who had to spend a week at another school because he was in a fight in the park. She said he was fine in English.
She is 13 and she and her pals aren't into boyfriends/girlfriends yet really. They just hang out as friends for the time being.
Miss Bland is brill. I wish we'd had a Miss Bland at my school when I was a teenager!

"I tapped the bike"

Little fucker

Mr Ben Povey was very good at that but I thought!

Miss Bland was lovely, really liked how she handles the kids seeing the good in them alongside the challenges. She was so supporting to the newbie teacher too.

DH thought Miss Bland came across as a bit of a 'nan' figure, but I teach in secondary and couldn't do my job without the support of the pastoral team, who are best placed to build relationships with pupils and their parents. There's a few Miss Blands at my place and they're all great.

Glad none of my Y7s have started with any boyfriend/girlfriend talk yet. Some of them are more interested in Harry Potter and Lego (bless 'em).

Lily was a real sparky little thing, wasn't she? She was so mature speaking to Jacob, she let him down so kindly.

The Povey brothers are quite dishy

I loved the way Lilly made sure she was fully understood by Jacob and repeated so many times "were just friends" she has the measure of him!

Agree about Lily Dame. Not sure about the Povey bros.

No, the povey broveys don't do it for me either. As nice as they are as teachers.

It's because they're authoritative,all that marching around in suits, dh in a suit makes me come over all unnecessary too

Thought Lily was a bit too in love with herself tbh

In what way?

In an annoying way

I am loving the series, really enjoying it.
No way would I send my child there. No way. I think the teachers are great but academics are not a huge priority. The Tiger/Billy situation - dealt with very softly.

The Tiger/Billy situation - dealt with very softly.

Yet successfully!

The thing is they got to the root of the issue and got the best out of them. Yelling and sending them out of the classroom clearly wasn't working at all. They way they dealt with it was fantastic imo.

That's true. It does appear to nurture the children and the head of year seven is excellent. Nice person, yes maybe the right way. I didn't have the same compassion when I taught at a similar school.

I didn’t understand why both boys weren’t in the tops set already, they were clearly very bright. Understand separating them but felt bad for the one left behind.

Might not have realised how bright they were, hard to judge if they're not doing any work.

Ds needed separating from a friend, they weren't being rude just incredibly chatty. It was only on my insistence they were separated and suddenly he stopped and buckled down. I'm not sure why they were so reluctant to move him.

I suppose is very easy for us to judge from our sofa of an evening. In reality - I cannot imagine how much patience is needed.

Very true

I love it too! I want to work for Mr Povey!