It's almost that time of year when my wife sits next to me on the sofa and glances at me like I'm a piece of shit. Because of what Alan Rickman did to Emma Thompson in a fictional film, released over 20 years ago.
The brutal, grim story of the Southport killer demonstrates the enormous challenges that schools have to face. Comprehensive education serves the entirety of society- every angel, scientist, athlete, psychopath and arsonist. The range that spans is vast.
For a student to be permanently excluded at 13 demonstrates how extreme his behaviour was; for his subsequent specialist schools to admit even they couldn't manage his chaotic behaviour only reinforces that.
School staff have enormous expectations put on them by society, and they move mountains on a daily basis. But they aren't miracle workers.
Reminder for Parents and Carers of Year 11 Students that we will be holding both the Strive to Be Your Best and Post-16 Information Evenings on Thursday 17th October between 6pm and 8.30pm. We look forward to welcoming you and your child there.
Astronaut Matthew Dominick captured this video of #HurricaneMilton from @SpaceX's Dragon Endeavour spacecraft, docked to the @Space_Station, as it passed over the Gulf of Mexico on the morning of Wednesday, Oct. 9: https://t.co/GSFBS2wdwn
You destroyed a library. It was MORE than a library, it was a food bank, a source of heat for people in the winter, a place for kids from low income families to use the internet, or do their homework. Why destroy something so vital? Yeah you’re so patriotic guys.
Daughter and I used to talk in a made up alien language when she was little. She grew out of it and it crushed me. I picked her up after she'd been on a night out. She started doing it again while drunk and we sat for an hour in the car and it is the happiest I've felt in years.
If a student doesn’t have a pen, don’t ‘just give them a pen’.
Instead you could:
-Give them a pen and take note. If it happens again, follow up with a consequence
-Give them a purple pen so it’s easy to show parents days equipment isn’t right
-Teach them how to locate a pen
-Teach them how to pack properly for the day
-Privately, ask if there are any reasons why they aren’t ready
-Record any equipment issues, daily
-Teach them why being organised matters.
-Teach them to bring three pens a day.
Don’t ’just give them a pen.’ You are not Stationery Santa. Don’t teach them to be helpless. Show them you care by teaching them to be independent.
Starting salaries for doctors:
🇦🇺: £44,000
🇨🇦: £46,000
🇫🇷: £43,700
🇺🇸: £41,900
🇮🇪: £53,000
Meanwhile in 🇬🇧: £29,384
Junior doctors aren't holding the NHS to ransom. They're holding the NHS together.
Pay them what they deserve.
#JuniorDoctorsStrike