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  2. How's your day?

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    17 hours ago, Beekay said:

    Consider it an open invitation to join us. I might even send you some of the questions for you to answer, while you are sitting on your garden seat with a cup of tea/coffee.

    OK Beekay !  Doubt I would do the journey easily to your part of the world BUT send the questions and I will do my best. No good at sports!

     

    In the end I did have to sand down the table the bleddy seats are wooden and need serious fettling if they are going to bear my weight and that of SWIMBO!! Keep me busy today but I like a challenge, need some 6M stud to clamp the legs. Off to the garage.....

  3. How's your day?

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    It is a good thing to contribute to your home community , it sounded a great bash Beekay.

    Where I live nowt happens and folk hardly acknowledge one another, maybe its only me they don't acknowledge.......Who knows and who cares. Not me!

    Looks nice out so getting the wooden outside furniture out to see if it will continue to hold old bones and mugs of tea. I think the table will need sanding and coating in stuff.

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  5. Anything Political

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    Please set out your views as you would wish. And do not assume anything about me based on what I choose to write.

    I agree with you that large numbers oh those who vote do not ask questions or hold those they elect to account.

  6. Anything Political

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    I cannot see why you need to deliberate over such matters.

    There will always be exploitation however you wish it to be described.

    There will always be those that seek to encourage a fairer way of doing things.

    The pendulum swings..............

     

  8. Catholic schools

    in All other Nottingham Schools Discussions

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    An education in a RC school during the 50s and 60s was most interesting and certainly damaged some people in a variety of ways. The curriculum was slightly skewed by the dogma and the decor included religious iconography and the passage of the school day would observe some ritualistic behaviours. The teaching fraternity ,both religious and lay, could include inspirational educators, zealots and nutters much like any other school. It was a decent preparation for life particularly if your further education included borstal or young offenders or perhaps a seminary.

  11. How's your day?

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    Ah Melissa what a shame I seem to recall that you went into teaching..........could have been another Nottstalgian......... Anyway Margie is right, the opportunities are out there and you cannot know what is round the corner. I know that life has many crossroads and the decisions you make are what you live with. Do you know the Robert Frost poem "The Road Not Taken" ?

     I am sure that something will be there and then you will not look back. All the very best.

  15. Anything Political

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    Brew and DJ  you have points you would like to make. Some of your points are more valid than others according to the particular lens you are choosing to view the matter through.

     

    It is extremely unfortunate that Ruth Perry and her school were so poorly tret because an Inspection team did not do their job well. ( Just to be clear , I do know that)

    It was extremely unfortunate that Baby P and Victoria Adjo Climbié  died because our Safeguarding (Child Protection) arrangements were not followed through as they should have been. Good Safeguarding arrangements are necessary.

     

    DJ you make an assumption about professional development, we know what assumptions can lead to.

    Brew you have useful points of clarification thank you for those.

     

    I know the problems of this area of provision for like DJ it was my work.

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  16. Anything Political

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    DJ I think it interesting that you conclude that this is a Tory failure. I reckon no political party has failed but a lazy complacent civil service has not been responsive to to the feedback from within the profession.

     

    Many of our regulatory bodies are flawed for varieties of reasons.

    OFSTED has always been problematic in generating an aggressive culture. When thinking about children and their learning they have a relatively short time in school and lazy/comfortable leadership in schools can leave poor teachers in place doing a poor job. A good and robust professional development process (appraisal)  could sort most of that out but again you need good and firm leadership and governance to make that work.

     

    Safeguarding of children is vital and the processes in school need to be 100% perfect and a minor error  or omission can lead to a school being judged inadequate. We can only conclude that Ruth Perry did not get absolutely everything right in the safeguarding arrangements at her school. Whatever the omission it was poorly handled by the inspection team. 

     

    A sad state of affairs and an unnecessary death and attendant sadness.

     

    I could relate so many stories of unnecessarily disrupted lives following school inspections. A stupidly brutal system that should never have been developed in the way it was. But what should we do to ensure that our children's education is good?

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  17. Christmas when you were young

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    My Mum made the pork pies for her family and my Dad's family.

    Some years were better than others!! There were stories and accounts kept by those who couldn't/wouldn't cook. 

    My Mum kept that tradition going into her late eighties when she decided there were too few contemporary family members left to offend or please depending on how well her batch turned out.

     

    My memory is of, to me,  the disproportionate amount of time spent in church praying, singing carols and all the other seasonal stuff.

  19. Lovely afternoon at the allotment

    in Kat's Gardening Forum

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    We have a Plough Sunday nearby with associated music dancing and singing. I play the fiddle for a local Quire and have also played for a Morris Side though I think accordians/squeeze boxes more suitable having better volume.  I like Plough Sundays, particularly when you get more than one local Morris Sides vying with another for who has the most elaborate and noisy new dance variant. 

  20. Anything Political

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    DJ you continue with the polite discussions with those that you choose.

    Ignore the irrationalists and the sadly bigoted it really is waste of your time and energy.

    You are like most folk......... some of what you say makes good sense and some doesnt.

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  23. It’s A Scam

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    I voted to remain and regret the consequences of this particular "democratic" decision.

    The unfortunate hype and lies generated before the vote will have been believed by some.

    Then of course there are those who trousered millions then and since..........

    "Oh brave new world that has such people in't."

  24. How's your day?

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    I buy Badger Inks seldom let me down and  if my Brother Printer will not accept they change the one not working. Like most folk I have learnt to reduce the amount of paper copy I need. Used to print loads of music scores but now have them on an iPad.