The Forty Fifth Republic - Can I get a hair appointment before the summer term starts?

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I felt I had to take Noble's role and poke fun a little. Then she came on and was nice and now I just feel bad! Sorry.

Our CAGs thing ahs gone crazy today, Have to tell them topics, save things in folder, which they can see , guide them towards material we will use including which paper it comes from with the questions on them...

BUT

not tell them the questions, or share the markscheme, ir tell them which questions they will do...

I have no idea whether this makes a modicum of sense to maths and science teachers but it really doesn't to me!

Hope you're ok Jan. I have a grab rail in my shower left from the last owners (I've lived here 12 years). It's very useful, so I thoroughly recommend getting one.

Poor Jan! Hope you heal up soon. Because there's lots of blood flow to the area, it should repair itself quickly (or at least that's what my midwife said to me 😬).

Done one set of marking, got one more to do today. Managed a trip into town with dd to pick up some food and also visit the craft shop! I was doing really well reducing my yarn stash over Easter, but came home with another 6 balls . They're all earmarked for dad's blanket though!

S**t, this isn’t going to be good!”?

Jan swore Must've been bad.

I got a burn on my chin from too hot pizza cheese so solidarity on the undignified facial injuries front.

Alright, dd's blanket! My dad will have to wait in the blanket queue!

So you can tell them which paper it comes from, piggy and hope they'll look up the questions and markscheme but not give them to them directly??

That doesn't make sense to me piggy. We're (my maths department, don't know about other subjects) using the November 20 past papers, with a couple of topics removed, as they are the only ones that aren't fully published. And the person removing the topics we haven't done due to lockdown doesn't teach that tier of year 11. We're really attempting to keep our assessments as close to normal exams as possible.

So you can tell them surfing (June 18) but not which questions. Even though there are no optional questions... and even though the mark scheme is the same every year.

Nope. Don't get it.

Yes... something like that..

N noble; it 's better than that. We put the papers in a special folder for them!!

I'VE HAD MY HAIR CUT AND COLOURED!!!!!

I don't quite know what to say about that Piggy
We've told ours "paper 2 Lang". They have the mark schemes from the previous 258853 times they've find bits of paper 2. Even Bob stands a chance if you've put them in a folder for him.

'Your question will be from the 2017 paper. This was on Ozymandias because they all bloody have been. However, the question may or may not be that question. Except it will be. So if you would all like to arrange a quick private tuition sessions and prepare to appeal when the question is actually on Remains... DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT LOOKING UP THE MARKSCHEME.'

'Your Eng Language questions will not fit into the allotted decreed time in which you have to do it but will almost certainly be about surfing (yes, Margot, I am sure you probably have done that one with your three tutors and yes, George , your mum the English teacher can help you). We can't change the questions because they are always the same. we did want to save you form the horror of writing a newspaper article but now we can't. Please don't appeal. Thx.'

Honestly, teachers can make question sup! It's not beyond possible!!

We're not telling ours which paper we're doing for the simple reason that it will increase disadvantage for the have nots.

Don't even get me started on film.

'Yes, Bob, the only paper that has ever existed was on culture. yes , it was a shit question. No, I can't change it. Soz. But try to learn off by heart the quick factual recall questions /5 because I can't change those either. Oh and you literally only need to know what someone wears for your other film.'

Fucking exam boards too. Fuckers.

really sorry for languageJan

Telling students the paper seems bonkers but this would hugely skew maths results to those that looked up the MS versus those that didn't.

We have folders, work that has to be included, students can choose to include work (shit idea for maths). Our process has been designed by social science/PE specialists and it shows. They just can't understand why we can't use classwork as an objective measure. They can't get their head round topics not having grades. Every observation "what grade was the work in that lesson?". Every time "there's no such thing in maths" cue explanation that blows people's minds until the next time when they forget.

Hen, you're looking younger, more attractive, and have a sort of glow about you...

Making maths questions up is a ballache for anything above 2 marks. Changing the numbers is usually pretty easy though. We've changed the numbers on a couple of big markers to weed out any cheats.

That is also not true in Social Science herc. I think this may actually be because they are SLT...

Our process has been designed by social science/PE specialists

FGS. This is why a 'consistent school-wide approach' is a pile of shit.

We put the papers in a special folder for them!!

I used to give my sixth formers folders with all the course and revision materials in their last lesson with me. The thing they likes most was that the folders had their names on them.
This was apparently instrumental in getting them to actually revise.

Our social scientists/historians are saying they can include classwork like essays which students have done and these are possible to grade. I can see that. But it doesn't work at all for us and they just can't understand why. I really think SLT should be required to teach/observe/thoroughly understand a completely different subject to the one they teach. It would really help on teams where they all have similar subject specialisms. (rant re SLT over).

There are literally no hard and fast grade boundaries for social science subjects.

I agree about showing interest and curiosity in how other subjects work. It's a HUGE weakness on our SLT.