...and Simon Isaacs spake unto the tribes of Usenet, saying...
Thought as much! I've been asked to spend a day in a local comp next month. My job is training people in a call centre, and the "Head of Motivation" at the school (you couldn't make it up) has asked for someone to go in for a day and give year 11 an idea of what the work is like, what skills they need, etc. I'm the obvious candidate. I'm quite looking forward to it.
Not in private education but they both work in 'Public Schools'
In Scotland that's the (probably now outdated) description used for Primary School.
As to the PC bit? I'm too old to care! Headmaster is a headmaster and a Headmistress is a headmistress - I was always more afraid of the latter ;-))
Graeme
On or around Mon, 27 Feb 2006 19:41:24 -0000, "Richard Brookman" enlightened us thusly:
you left out clever and bone idle...
In message , snipped-for-privacy@lardrover.co.uk writes
Another steam fan here too. Only with me it's mostly boats. I've worked President & Kildare (steam narrowboat & unpowered butty) and a friend owns a steam powered icebreaker, Laplander. I've an interest in all steam engines though, from the big pumping and mill engines down to model ones. I've a yen to get one of the Hornby live steam model railways or at least a Mamod traction engine one of these days (lack of tuits)
Will
So you're just a young rabbit then Austin. I was almost finished with primary school by the time you arrived.
Summat like that - I play with steam trains in any spare time left after working and keeping the green oval fleet running.
end of last year i bought some leather cuffs off ebay, they were for a specific photoshoot with a private client. week later i was at the shoot, pulled out the cuffs, much hilarity and talk of 'boomarang cuffs' and 'the didn't want to leave, look, they came back'. ho ho ho.
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Think I saw Hornby are selling a live steam OO gauge
Hang on...
Yup
David
In message , rads writes
That's the one. They had a couple of them running on their stand at the Goodwood Festival of Speed last year. Most impressive, even got a proper set of controls!
Will
On or around Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:19:02 +1300, EMB enlightened us thusly:
I'm almost faulty. April the first, as I believe I may have mentioned. Anyone in reach of midsouthwest wales on the appropriate day ('s a saturday) is welcome to come to the pub to help celebrate.
On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 21:13:37 -0000, "Richard Brookman" scribbled the following nonsense:
aah, head of motivation = the wonderful learning mentors, someone else drawing a salary from otherwise tight school budgets.....
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:30:04 GMT, rads scribbled the following nonsense:
yes, currently trying to convince swmbo that we need at least a OO live steam setup in the garden, although I would prefer G Scale....
...and Simon Isaacs spake unto the tribes of Usenet, saying...
That was it! "Head of Mentoring and Motivation". I'd forgotten the other M word. I'm afraid I burst out laughing when I saw the letter my boss got. She wasn't pleased - something about "attitude".
When I was teaching, there were heads of department (which was me), heads of year, deputies and headteachers, and a careers bloke. Now they all sound like their job titles come from the Social Work pages of the Grauniad.
In , Richard Brookman said
People sometimes ask me what _I_ do - my usual replies are that I work as a consultant for the Central Office of Disinformation and that should I inadvertently provide further details of my current projects I'd also be obliged to kill you.
Also note that I'm a reseller for
Yes, those are the ones that are telling the kids that they are too good for any kind of manual work and should all enroll for higher education courses to enable them to gain as much debt, and as little experiance of any practical kind as possible. Seems like your head of motivation isn't managing to motivate the teachers in a very positive way.... ;-)
Regards
William MacLeod
On 28 Feb 2006 15:21:47 -0800, " snipped-for-privacy@macleod-group.com" scribbled the following nonsense:
Yep, we have some kids who are being entered for 11 GCSE's, in a school which has the pupils that do not pass the 11+, as our area still has Grammar schools. Kids that are struggling with 5 are completely overloaded with 11, but whose fault is it......
try a school with 21 admin staff and 44 teachers..... One of them is employed 8hrs a day, 5 days a week to scan the registers, which are now done using optical mark readers. Takes about 20 minutes to do the whole school.......
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