tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post1363297915549521724..comments2024-03-29T07:51:40.085+00:00Comments on Yorkshire Pudding: SATSYorkshire Puddinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-4257427624055301942008-07-20T20:43:00.000+01:002008-07-20T20:43:00.000+01:00I think that no time to move = totally unreasonabl...I think that no time to move = totally unreasonable! (Some staff at my school were excused from sports day in order to to have a free day to move from one office to another.) Moving a whole school must be a nightmare, hopefully the new building will make it worthwhile...<BR/><BR/>Enjoy your holiday (I know I'll enjoy mine!)Lois (three-legged-cat)https://www.blogger.com/profile/12678081529440242681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-76192628790019542682008-07-19T18:22:00.000+01:002008-07-19T18:22:00.000+01:00How do you feel about leaving your home of 20 year...How do you feel about leaving your home of 20 years Pudding? Was it melancholy or woopie?By Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13354290886936308105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-57606744584474603212008-07-19T13:04:00.000+01:002008-07-19T13:04:00.000+01:00DAPHNE - What has always pained me about these blo...DAPHNE - What has always pained me about these bloody SATS is the implied lack of trust in those of us charged with delivering education to the masses.<BR/>MOPSA - Pure envy? Living on that Devonshire farm seems like one long holiday to me complete with animals, cranes and exciting barn conversions!<BR/>KATHERINE - Sometimes The State should accept that some responsibilities are too importantto be farmed out to money-grabbing private companies who ultimately care far more about profits than the service they are meant to be delivering.<BR/>TILLERMAN - Hi! So that makes at least three bloggers in NZ! All this expensive change in education and who carries the can in the end? Nobody. At the frontline, people like me are the ones who have to live with changes we never wanted in the first place as we await the next batch of changes.<BR/>JENNYTA - I am not surprised that it isn't just us who have been shat upon like this. And there's the SuperHead at the end of term praising us for getting ready to leave. It wasn't praise I wanted love it was TIME!Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-90650018762312583492008-07-19T08:51:00.000+01:002008-07-19T08:51:00.000+01:00A well deserved holiday, YP. No time for moving to...A well deserved holiday, YP. No time for moving to new building = par for the course. Same happened to us when I did my year's contract in a closing school two years ago.Jennytchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13621488409334115930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-29988465282199036912008-07-19T04:36:00.000+01:002008-07-19T04:36:00.000+01:00Seeing an education ministry anywhere in the world...Seeing an education ministry anywhere in the world that uses any sort of common sense is about as likely as seeing a watermelon balancing on a drinking straw in a full gale.<BR/><BR/>Here in New Zealand the Education Ministry spent countless millions on introducing a great stack of new curriculums in all subjects and on teacher inservice to implement them in the 1990s. These were all throw out last year (they are perfectly ok) and by 2010 all primary schools will have to have in place complete new curriculums that have been designed in consultation with their local communities. The whole thing is a sort of mad metaphor for what is happening world wide with just about every aspect of our lives. Why does this stuff happen? who drives it? No one wants it! Have we all gone bloody mad?Alden Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06601028197387499096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-62230728828911306022008-07-19T00:58:00.000+01:002008-07-19T00:58:00.000+01:00Well, rest up a bit, YP, in the meantime...NZ has ...Well, rest up a bit, YP, in the meantime...<BR/>NZ has been going the privatisation way in recent years. <BR/>I don't think it is the answer.Katehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12453125929159161583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-50298366219124170832008-07-19T00:43:00.000+01:002008-07-19T00:43:00.000+01:00Bloody teachers' holidays! It's payback time...he...Bloody teachers' holidays! It's payback time...hence the crappy systems to make sure you eat into your free time. Pure envy.Mopsahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17912659592484055741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-6805454109182435762008-07-19T00:28:00.000+01:002008-07-19T00:28:00.000+01:00SATS - Stupid, Superfluous, Scrap 'em.And let teac...SATS - Stupid, Superfluous, Scrap 'em.<BR/>And let teachers get on with their job.Daphnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14469075813149239051noreply@blogger.com