I think we are all a bit stressed out at school! hahaha...it is a typical sign of end-of-year...so much going on...actually ...too much...i think i'm getting fed-up, because i can't do in my class what i really want to do...and that is to have a bit of FUN!Our PPA for the afternoon was cancelled...and i couldn't have the fun in the afternoon which i planned, because the leavers' practise took place later...so we were kind of waiting to be called....and nobody called at the time they were supposed to call us....only much later...what a waste...but...we didn't mind really, because we finished off our memory booklets.Tomorrow another busy day, we have to practise our presentation for Wednesday in the Tower! And i plan an ICT project, to use PAINT.NET and to create our own pictures in the style of Hockney.... today's Seurat was a total lost with the "waiting.." What a shame, so much good time going lost... but anyway...there is always something else that needs to be done...and i think i'm still in a red mood!
This is a view in the Drakensberg Mountains in South Africa! Beautiful!!
And...I'm in a purple mood too! That is close enough to red...lol!This is a street in Pretoria! In Spring,,,,,,October, the city is covered in Jacaranda blossoms.....that is the time when students write exams...and fall in love!Pretoria is also called the "Jacaranda city"... because of all the Jacaranda trees in the streets...really a beautiful scene during October/November.And I have now a new mouse, it seems to me that the other one was the cause of all my problems on the chess site!
Hmmm...i like these purple colours...my favourite colour!
And Red,...another favourite colour...
Interesting reading....follow the link at the bottom read more...The Schools Secretary, Ed Balls, last week announced a raft of proposals for the country's beleaguered schools.The spin was classic New Labour: for teachers, "greater flexibility" in the classroom; for parents, more focus on the basics; for the country, sickened by targets from the cradle to the grave, "no more clutter". And for New Labour's "fix" of excitement and modernity, there are to be new subjects (such as personal finance and Urdu) and a pledge to make teaching more "relevant".The Balls hype began almost a week ago and the formal announcement finally followed, of a new national curriculum. The curriculum quango's head repeated the promise of greater "flexibility".But his message, like that of his political boss, was mixed: there will be fresh demands on what is taught and how - whether it is "the Battle of the Nile or taking out a mortgage" - and there will be more dumbing down.New Labour's nationalisation of the classroom is moving into overdrive. Not only will the heads have to cram new subjects into the tightest of timetables, but their teachers will have to change the old ones.History and geography look set to be politicised to fit in with the Brownite spin and the ideologies of the Left: in geography, there will be an emphasis on world "poverty", climate change and cultural diversity; in history, we'll have the slave trade and the history of Islam as well as the "cultural, social and ethnic diversity" of Britain.The teachers, too, are in for more "assessment", the favoured ideological alternative to written exams for all. The profession may be drowning in paperwork but there will be more. The new plans emphasise "personalised learning" and with it "personalised assessment".And, as if life were not already bad enough for heads and teachers, they will also have to take on board the controversial "diploma" system, with phoney subjects dreamed up by educationalists......http://wakeupopenyoureyes.blogspot.com/
