Saturday 31 December 2011

Friday 30 December 2011

Thursday 29 December 2011

Sunday 25 December 2011

Saturday 24 December 2011

I'm spending time with a blonde

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The tree is up!

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Greater love has no man.....

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This product is wrong on so many levels but Jemma is a vegetarian 

Thursday 22 December 2011

Tuesday 20 December 2011

Monday 19 December 2011

Sunday 18 December 2011

Mince pie

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Home made by Jemma

Saturday 17 December 2011

Tuesday 6 December 2011

Saturday 3 December 2011

Thursday 1 December 2011

Wednesday 23 November 2011

Friday 18 November 2011

Another about school visits

Don't assume that everyone knows how to get round the school - mention that there will be guides for visitors. Comments like "Come and find my office, it's where the old library used to be" don't help at all.

Talk to him not me. He's a young adult and while he might appear to struggle with spoken English he's your customer, not me. I might be an influencer but if you've ignored him and told me what you do in your lessons you've lost him. I won't understand (or care) and he'll think that you are rude - as will I. Perhaps from there you can work out what direction my influence might take?  

Allowing teachers to threaten students during visits probably won't help. Last night I heard a teacher ask someone their name and he then told the young man that he'd be "out of the school" if he continued to talk to his friend. I've no idea if this was justified but it was not appropriate in front of that young man's peers or visitors. Teaching isn't about the power trip and publicly humiliating young adults is distasteful.

Thursday 17 November 2011

Physics

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A 'Wave" pendulum in the physics lab at St Simon Stock school. Another Sixth Form visit.

Tuesday 15 November 2011

Sunday 13 November 2011

In Memoriam

Rememberance Sunday photos at Sessions House, Maidstone