Notes on happenings and non-happenings:
routine reports from a 50-year old comprehensive school
MAY
Root words of the month are -vert and -vers. Number of the month is 16
Week 30:
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Tuesday 3rd
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We’re all about staffing until further notice. Shuffling the packs.
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Wednesday 4th
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Excellent and enthusiastic year 7 parents’ evening: what a pleasure to meet them.
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Thursday 5th
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Trinity Laban’s Jazz on Tour for y9, who know a bit about improvising, themselves.
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Friday 6th
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Meeting a prospective governor, keen to join the biggest voluntary group in the UK.
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Saturday 7th
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Talking to Early Career Teachers about the endless possibilities of their careers.
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Week 31:
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Monday 9th
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Visitors from the OU, the comprehensive university. Glad to work with them.
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Tuesday 10th
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Drafting a shadow staffing structure. We used to have to do them every year.
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Wednesday 11th
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Year 11’s last ordinary assembly! My Y13’s last ordinary lesson!
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Thursday 12th
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The BBC come filming for a Monday piece on exams: ready or not?
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Friday 13th
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Yes indeed. Total ICT failure for the year 11 leaving assembly. Much busking.
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Saturday 14th
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Governors’ strategy session: ICT, staffing, ethics, planning, equality.
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Week 32:
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Monday 16th
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A conversation with a parent about home educating a child, a sense of failure.
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Tuesday 17th
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A visit from a church leader, discussing grammar schools. See above.
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Wednesday 18th
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VG meeting with HTs on behaviour, attendance, inclusion and working with parents!
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Thursday 19th
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Discussing the future of vocational education, Ebacc’d almost out of existence
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Friday 20th
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Jubilee assemblies start. Writing the Tallis 50 souvenir booklet, against the clock.
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Week 33:
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Monday 23rd
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Queen’s Gallery, 6 students, 2 teachers talking about 1st class art teaching.
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Tuesday 24th
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With high attainers’ parents: why choose comprehensive? Because its better.
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Wednesday 25th
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Student Jury Service: do we do what we say on race, gender, equity?
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Thursday 26th
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A remembrance ceremony for a former student in the garden.
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Friday 27th
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Day 2 of 2 local shops ban. End of recruitment season.
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