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Updates and apologies
As the Christmas holiday comes to an end I realise I've not posted on here for some time. I admit...
Posted 07 January 2011 12:46 PM by Mr P
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In-house CPD vs external
Along with everyone else, I'm sure I'm finding some of the external compulsory a bit of a drag...
Posted 18 November 2010 09:45 AM by Mr P
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Stretching a bit too far?
I've just checked my timetable this week. As well as reports due for S1 and S3 in the next fortnight...
Posted 01 November 2010 05:36 PM by Mr P
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Whoop! Holidays!
Which I will of course spend working on lesson plans, marking homeworks, and so forth (if you're...
Posted 18 October 2010 03:29 PM by Mr P
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Same class... different class?
I had an unusual situation yesterday. An S1 class I regularly take was foisted upon me as a cover class...
Posted 15 October 2010 12:16 PM by Mr P
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Make it easy... part 2
Just as a follow-up to an earlier post, I did run the tests mentioned and the results were mixed - also...
Posted 12 October 2010 09:15 AM by Mr P
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Dive! Dive! Dive!
No, this isn't a post about the promotion of continental football into UK schools. I'm glad to...
Posted 12 October 2010 09:09 AM by Mr P
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Make it easy!
My PT had a suggestion for my "difficult" (read "near impossible") 4th year class...
Posted 30 September 2010 10:28 AM by Mr P
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Threats do work
I guess you just have to be careful of which ones. Regular readers may already be aware of my fourth...
Posted 13 September 2010 02:32 PM by Mr P | 2 comment(s)
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What a quote!
We're currently putting all the first years through a test for the English department. Basically...
Posted 08 September 2010 05:02 PM by Mr P
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Bingo!
I've got quite a tricky third year class to manage as they're all mixed ability and doing INT2...
Posted 07 September 2010 01:21 PM by Mr P
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Other staff can help... even inadvertantly!
OK, so I didn't post much at the end of week 1. I'm wary of identifying children, staff and the...
Posted 24 August 2010 03:29 PM by Mr P
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8:15am? And I've not even started yet!
I checked the times for the probationer meeting a day or so beforehand and panicked when I saw that it...
Posted 11 August 2010 11:15 PM by Mr P
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Before term even starts...
A quick introduction - I'm a Computing teacher (well, NQT) about to undertake my probationary year...
Posted 05 August 2010 08:24 PM by Mr P
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