The broom cupboard 3 - for briefly stranded republicans

[TheHoneyBadger]

First in tops up the gin supplies and turns on the tea urn.

Squashed That does sound like an unfortunate incident with your ds. Is it a zero tolerance style school? I'd have given a verbal reminder first at minimum and I generally avoid formal stuff with Y7 for at least the first 2 lessons.

(like deciding for yourself when to turn the page in your exercise book )

That made me laugh!

Squashed, one of my Y13s was telling me she got a behaviour point when she was in Y7 or something, for forgetting to bring her calculator., and that she went home and cried and thought it was the worst thing in the world - sympathies for it happening to ds so early in the year.

like deciding for yourself when to turn the page in your exercise book

Week 1 of Year 4 and we sort that out!! I had one tell me they'd got to the bottom of the page and what should they do. I said (quite kindly and with a smile - it is the first week, after all) that they could either write over the top of what they'd already written or, you know, how about turning over? It was a sparky child, so he grinned and got on with it.

Callme, I agree - Y3 / Y4 we sort that out. It's perhaps an indication of general uncertainty in a new setting that they start asking that question again in secondary - "If everything else has changed, perhaps that has changed too?" may be their thinking!

I can guarantee that he won't ever forget the incident - memory like an elephant! Let's hope he was just unlucky, the teacher is OK and he warms to her eventually (and it is likely to be a very long eventually!). If the girl makes further comments on Monday, I shall be emailing that in. I thought they were just normal strict. We shall see.

My friend's son is at a school where there are no blazers but all children have to wear jumpers. They must wear their jumper upon entering every lesson, regardless of the weather. They then have to ask permission to remove it if hot. Her child is so anxious about forgetting to put his jumper back on and therefore getting a behaviour point that he has kept it on all week and just boiled alive. By the time he gets home, he is feeling quite unwell each day.

Y7s definitely do know about page turning. I think @cantkeepawayforever had it right, it is just nerves and trying to keep within the rules at all times.

Has anyone ever taught in an inner city school where there is a trend for families keeping birds of prey? I thought one of the year 2s in my nqt class had rather an active imagination until other stay confirmed it was a 'thing' in the local area.

I know they know about page turning, I'm very aware that they're just trying to do the right thing. But it's a question I'm asked a lot in the first few weeks of year 7. I also answer them with a smile that they get to make the decision about what to do next.

One of my year 10 asked me about turning the page this week 😂

In fairness, at the start of the year, you are setting expectations about presentation and date/title writing and so forth, so they're probably thinking (in my case), "she's clearly a fussy cow, so I'd better check."
Add to that, the fact that I had the day before told them that if they only had a few lines left on the page, they should start a new one, and I can see some of the issue. A full page is a full page though. And that child was one of my brightest.

In maths if they get to the bottom of a page there is, I suppose, the option to go back to the top and start a new column (no, don't do that).

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@noblegiraffe

In maths if they get to the bottom of a page there is, I suppose, the option to go back to the top and start a new column (no, don't do that).

That's our maths dept policy..

That's the opposite of noblegiraffe policy.

No columns, no writing answers across the page, one equals sign per line only.

I had to batter my Y12s out of doing columns last year, god their work was a mess.

It means their printed worksheets are long thin tiny print things. It's dire for poor eyesight or poor readers.
MrsHamlet's book policy begins with numbering pages and keeping a contents page.

Is their policy no columns? Think I misunderstood.

Worksheets can have columns, that’s fine.

I'm just happy that they wrote something

On a different note, I find myself hoping that Emma Raducanu and Marcus Rashford get together. That would be nice.

They fold the page in half lengthways and then have two columns in their books

Oh I see. No thank you.

We have that jumper rule although it gets rescinded in really hot weather eg beginning of last week. I hate it.

Also those who’ll never take their jumpers off because of revealing potential sweat marks - that wasn’t a thing when we* were young was it?! Is it therefore a social media ‘You have to look Insta-perfect every minute of every day’ thing??

*OK large age range on this thread!

Is SM ‘shipping’ them then, noble?

Or is it just you?

He has been writing effusively about her on Twitter. But that doesn't mean he fancies her, of course. So has Andy Murray, for ages.

On arrival at my current school, many years ago, I was started to discover a list of game and prices on the staff room notice board. You could order it from a Bob. It was a bit of a struggle to get him through his GCSEs, then he went to train to be a gamekeeper.

At a friend's even more rural school they send the farm kids out to discreetly dispose of any rabbits with myxomatosis

Thankfully we're free of rules about jumpers.
We do have a number of staff who, to quote Bob, "go sick" over the tie and top button rules.

Just me so far I think, Jan. He wrote her a supportive tweet after Wimbledon and she’s been appreciative of the support and they both come across as so nice!

Age gap? About 5 years I guess, just about OK I suppose.
She’s uni bound isn’t she?