The Trimble factor

Oh good grief, they’re still going on about it.
Look, there are some people with brains that just sook things up. I have a brain like that. It doesn’t make me a better person, or more intelligent, I just know lots of useless things. And that’s the point, most facts are useless unless in the right [...]

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Sensory development

I love seeing a project develop and grow tendrils and blossom in all sorts of directions.
Teacher1 asked Teacher2 if she could create some A5 poetry cards for our sensory garden. T2 said there was no time. T1 asked me. I spoke to T3 about using LRC time. T3 amenable.
Simple enough. But then the project started one [...]

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Day 54 – Unchallenged

Monday nights won’t be the same for weeks and weeks. Maybe even months.
Because tonight was the Uni Challenge final, and it won’t be back for another series for ages.
[UC photo to be uploaded here]
I can’t believe the publicity surrounding contestant, Gail Trimble. She knows a lot of stuff and she’s quick on the buzzer. She [...]

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What’s a gasket?

Doesn’t Mrs Gasket write Victorian novels? If it’s anything mechanical, then I won’t know about it. Unfortunately.
It’s been a day of new experiences:

1st time seen smoke belching from back of car
1st time seen smoke belching from front of car
1st time accelerator has felt crunchy
1st time phoned AA
1st time standing alone beside motorway
1st time towed
1st time [...]

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Invisible Inc.

Glow presentation to SMT this morning, along with other invited guests. The general consensus is that it’s clunky and looks outdated. Unfortunately, until the relevant admin is set up, we can’t get stuck in and develop the cool stuff that’ll make it look more interesting.
Then I get set up for a presentation to the students, [...]

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Stress

I’m enjoying a brief lull in demand for the LRC before the whirlwind catches up again, so I am allowing myself a bit of time to relax, and review exactly where I’m at with Glow, development plans, minutes and meetings for various committees, Catalyst, Reactions, the final budget spend, cataloguing prior to the final budget spend, [...]

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Happy birthdays

Not just my mum’s birthday, but my grampa’s too. Hell of a birthday present!

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Day 42 The desk

The desk is tidy, the whole LRC is tidy –  I don’t know where anything is.
Two out of three ain’t bad.

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Visitors

5th years say to me and Colleague this morning “Why are you all dolled up?” We look at each other.
She says, “We’re not”.
I say, “Why?”
Our visitors appear later and a couple of pupils ask, who are those people? and I glance up at them, and reply, “Them? They’re just visitors” and the pupils say, oh, ok, and go [...]

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A tidy library is never used: discuss

Here’s a question: how tidy should a library be?
You will have guessed by now that I am not a tidy person by nature. I try, but it doesn’t come naturally to me. I do my best to keep the shelving and pupils’ areas tidy so they can be used appropriately, but my own workspace is [...]

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