Fun with scissors and glue: Year 7 books

November 8, 2006

At St W’s KS3 children stuck their printed work into A4 books. When I first saw this I thought it was rubbish, but I came round, the linear order of a book coupled with the stickyness of glue makes it a good way of seeing what work is there and what is missing. In fact at this school I asked for books for my year 7′s.

They have been sitting at the front of the room waiting for me to give them out for a few weeks. I am going to bite the bullet tomorrow and have “fun” (hmm) with scissors and glue.


Going back to paper

November 6, 2006

I’m almost ready to go back to a bound teacher’s planner. I’ve been relying on an Excel based planner/scheduler. One of the reasons is that my memory stick doesn’t work in a few rooms so I loose access to Excel. The other is that I don’t evaluate as freely (the next teacher is coming in and rushing me off the machine).

I miss having a single book where I write everything down that needs to be rememebered. The excel planner doesn’t fullfill that need. What it is good at though is giving an overview of what was/willl be taught for each class. I’ll probably end up maintaining 2 systems for a bit (suck it and see) bummer.

I wrote about this before a the begining of term.

My school Planner has already fallen to bits, despite me hardly using it. Anyway with 3 days on one page its not enough paper for me.


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