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ohhhh, new topics!

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Blandmum · 15/05/2006 17:21

Exciting stuff Tech. thank you very much!

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LucyCampCat · 15/05/2006 17:40

bit of a busman's holiday though mb? Grin

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Blandmum · 15/05/2006 17:41

Had to be first...how sad is that Blush

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MarsLady · 15/05/2006 17:45

Now are we talking secondary school here? Or of secondary importance? lol Grin

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Blandmum · 15/05/2006 17:46

Interesting point, well made! Grin

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roisin · 15/05/2006 18:51

Ooh a lovely new topic - yr 9s - grumble grumble - moan moan - whinge whinge ... Grin

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Blandmum · 15/05/2006 18:52

grumble, my y7 have started to sweat and haven't discovered anti pirpirant and showers yet!

My sixth form, who are in the room after them insist on opening all the windows! Grin

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NotAnOtter · 15/05/2006 18:54

i LOVE my year nine boy its like a light emerging from a boyish tunnel!

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roisin · 15/05/2006 18:57

Sixth form ... what a lovely concept Grin
We do just 11-16 education here, and most of the yr11s have suddenly transformed into delightful, pleasant, motivated creatures ... just before they are about to leave!

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Blandmum · 15/05/2006 18:59

I think that year 8s are worse than y 9s.

My sixth forms are fab. My year 11s are wonderful and I will cry like the rain at the end of the year. Mind you 42 of them are doing Biology next year! And I'm teaching them all!!!!

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LucyCampCat · 15/05/2006 19:10

Something aamazing seems to happen to Year 11 in the summer before they come back into the Sixth form - they turn into human beings!

Maybe it's because the ones who return are the ones that really want too, then again some Year 11's are great, I'm going to the wedding of one of my old tutor group in the summer, she left in 2000 and we still msn.

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cat64 · 15/05/2006 19:26

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Blandmum · 15/05/2006 19:58

Sorry, I was just posting for the first time on a new topic heading. I was thanking the technical people for setting it up. Sorry to confuse.

there is nothing that you have missed, honest!

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cat64 · 15/05/2006 22:31

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Blandmum · 16/05/2006 06:49

Thats it.

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scienceteacher · 16/05/2006 19:28

Hey, maybe we should have a roll call!?!

Me - I'm a science teacher in a grammar school, doing mainly chemistry.

As a parent, I have a child in Y9, and one who is in Y7 but still in prep school, plus a bunch of primary aged kids.

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scienceteacher · 16/05/2006 19:32

Someone told me recently that Y8s are officially worse than Y9s in terms of detentions and other school sanctions.

In the first school I taught in, Y9 was a nightmare - absolutely awful. In the school I am in now, I have good classes in both years, but I think there are some bad Y9s that other teachers have to put up with. I don't really dread any of my classes, but that could change when we move to our new timetable after half-term.

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Blandmum · 16/05/2006 20:30

I think that year 8s are the worst, and that the begining of year 9 is as bad. Then the hormones calm down a bit, and they realise that they have SATs and have to choose GCSEs etc and that is a bit of a reality check

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clerkKent · 16/05/2006 22:03

How come cod did not complain about this new topic? No surprise to see MB here though.

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