Temporary broom closet in lieu of staff creating a staffroom

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Just in case she got lucky and is in the one school that still goes to the pub.

@noblegiraffe I LOVE Burgess, even though he hasn't aged well. I wrote a piece about A Clockwork Orange, Brave New World and The Machine Stops for A Level. Burgess also holds the best first line prize for his Earthly Powers : "It was the morning of my eighty-first birthday and I was in bed with my catamite when the Bishop arrived..."

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A 100m swimming certificate is a real achievement. My Biology teacher gave me a certificate for being the school gerbil keeper. I have a feeling I showed it at some early interviews in my career as it is still in my RoA. How did I ever get a job?

I'm amazed you can remember any detail of secondary school exams, I can't even remember what I wrote my masters thesis on.

I don't remember any careers advice at school. I do remember going on a visit to a police station which was something to do with careers though. I think my school (gdst in mid 80s) expected all of us to become teachers mainly and the super bright ones to go into medicine or veterinary medicine.. which pretty much happened with most of my friends and I.

@Loshad oh yes every lesson was 'turn to page 40 read the examples and do exercises 1-4'.

Like a pp there were definitely subjects we weren't allowed to do as they weren't considered academic in our school. No cookery or drama or dance but yes to classical civilization and Greek/Latin. I distinctly remember the feeling that we were being projected as high fliers so wouldn't need to learn how to cook. I think we once did knitting in DT which was a subject we had for a year. I was quite shocked at the time that we were doing knitting as I thought what's the point I'll just buy a scarf/jumper. Love knitting now😊

And I was, and still am, annoyed we didn't learn how to cook in any way shape or form. Am hopeless at cooking. I had no interest in class civ but would have loved drama.

Morning. Totally trashed after the 3rd night of being woken at 3 and not being able to go back to sleep. Toddler temp much worse last night. No result yet though.

Lol genderal studies; we got to watch a red dwarf episode in that once! Only thing I ever got a D in. Complete waste of time.

[quote Monkeytennis97]@Loshad oh yes every lesson was 'turn to page 40 read the examples and do exercises 1-4'. [/quote]
Not joking... I love that kind of education.

I say this all the time to colleagues: I personally couldn't learn at school these days. Far too noisy and I HATE group work.

@RandomGrammarPun yup same here

The low level disruption that we had then was bad enough - and it was nowhere near as bad as it is now. I used to beg to go to boarding school and was most put out that my parents couldn't/wouldn't entertain the idea. But at least most of our lessons were chalk and talk/read through this chapter and answer the questions in silence or the teacher will throw a board rubber at you

Schools must've been so different - we were all really compliant, but I remember one teacher absolutely losing her mind over someone answering back.
We did deportment and CLAIT, but also Latin and Home Ec. I got sent to Social Services for work experience even though I knew I wanted to be a teacher. It was odd: two days in the office making tea, one day in an old people's home, one day in a nursery and one day in a community group where there were some teens who probably would now be in alternative or specialist provision. Some of them were violent and angry and scared the living shit out of me, and others were disabled and no one told me what to do.
I hated every minute of the whole week.

I just remember a far more relaxed attitude in my schooling. Results pressure wasn't there so there was time to do fun stuff.

No doubt I would have got better grades under the current system, but grades aren't everything.

@herc was that John major and Edwina curry maybe?!?

Primary staff in the 80s at my school were vile. One smacked me for writing with a blunt pencil and another for getting more paper as I had messed up my first one. The teacher called me sly and deceitful. I often think about that after a kid has got up and got his fifth sheet or starts rifling through my filing cabinet for a ruler. I obviously tell them off but the amount that try it. I would not have dared.

Secondary teachers were much nicer on the whole.

What I remember in my schooling is that I never knew any of my ‘target grades’ or flight path equivalent.

It made absolutely not a jot of difference to my progress or success!

Good call on Major and Currie, could have been, I really can't recall. I had to write about private lives influencing the public life of someone, and whether we had the right to know about affairs etc.

@ChloeDecker

What I remember in my schooling is that I never knew any of my ‘target grades’ or flight path equivalent.

It made absolutely not a jot of difference to my progress or success!

Nope! You just aimed for the best you could.

@ChloeDecker

What I remember in my schooling is that I never knew any of my ‘target grades’ or flight path equivalent.

It made absolutely not a jot of difference to my progress or success!

Same!

If I ever had a conversation with a peer who said they were "aiming" for a C or something, I used to think that a bit odd (why wouldn't you just do your absolute best and ignore the letters?) but we definitely never knew target or predicted grades until UCCA time and never saw or heard of a mark scheme!

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a538e954-51fa-11eb-9824-61a56b05e43d?shareToken

Fascinating article in the Times.

Boris forced to close schools by Hancock, Gove and Whitty... Gav wasn't even in the room.

Ignoring the single dig at schools ("the only sector not grateful at efforts to keep them open..." Erm, I think the word you are looking for is "threats" - there were no "efforts."), it has a useful go at the DfE for failure to provide laptops.

I thought you would be interested in this story from The Times

Boris Johnson was last man standing over Covid schools closures

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/7476ef44-51e3-11eb-ad71-ea6bb4a570af?shareToken
Try again. The above was to the wrong story.

That Tom Sherrington is v vocal about GW! Is he a current HT?

Has started a petition to get rid of Gav as well!

www.change.org/p/boris-johnson-the-resignation-of-gavin-williamson

Love it! An Ed person prepared to speak out rather than trying to protect any future links with the government that might protect their career!

@RuleWithAWoodenFoot could you please give the link for that graph thing with bubbly dots that slides around showing rates and tiers? I can't find it and forgot to save it.

If that makes sense - only been awake a short while as I have had a sleep reminiscent of the nectar of the gods - and I needed it