General Chat

*sobs*

Totally agree. The school system has gone to pot. Ended up taking my 12 year old out of school and teaching her myself at home. When we had the home inspection, we were told that she has the ability of a 16 old and was ready to take her GCSE's. She was told at school that her reading ability was an 11 year old!!!

The best thing I ever did was to take her out of college, she has come on in leaps and bounds.

Jackie

Already done Muffy

*worries that Errol will enter her for Are you Smarter than a 10 year old* lol xx

I think Muffy should sit a SATS test lol

But they are only called league tables by the press and subsequently the public.
It is purely a way of showing how one school performs against another.
If you take league tables on face value then that is wrong - try looking at demographics before asking why one school may be above or below another.

Nite Maddies Mate.xx

I still feel the same. Unnecessary exams are too stressful for young kids.

Weekly tests in a classroom and general work are surely are far more productive and accurate in gaging standards than unnatural exam conditions xx

lol nite Stray when you find out hon fill me in please ! xx

Thank god for calcualtors eh Helen !!! lol. I am really not good at maths it was a nightmare for me at school. I made up for it in other subjects but I do remember sobbing because I just couldn't grasp what on earth I was supposed to do with all those numbers !! xx

If anyone is interested:

http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/beaconschools/

Errol I said in 2005 he said it was all about league tables and in the views of parents it still is.

My friend teachers primary ( deputy head ) and she says the same that the focus is for the tables and the teachers performance and that there are other better ways to track children who are high or low achievers and develop teaching to suit raher than testing in an exam enviroment at such a young age

Sorry I can't stay to debate as I have an early start tomorrow

Goodnight all

Nuclear physics is the branch of physics dedicated to the study of, um, errrrr, um nuclear type stuff.






I think.

well im off to bed to dream bout nuclear pyshics lol

nyt lovelies
stray
xxxx

can't remember long division, I could never decide what I had to do with the remainder.
I wouldn't be without me calculator.

LOL Helen I struggle with long division. Maths and science not my strong points xx

Hang on! You are quoting something that was said two years ago! Policy changes year on year.
I'm sure that was valid in 2005 but I have checked to confirm what I thought and according to the Department for Children, Schools and Families website, Beacon ceased in 2005.

Nuclear physics? I couldn't grasp normal physics and dropped it as soon as I could.!

Nite all. Sleep well.

Maddie I have just checked my facts.
The programme definitely ended in August 2005.

Must be South Yorkshire level then and they got extra funding through it and this bought a lot of the extra computers and subsidised the school trips etc

He was doing a talk to us parents before the SATS in 2005 and clearly said that he disagreed with them as they are not in the kids best interests and it is focused towards league tables etc hence why some schools dis-apply children
( I have first hand experience of this at a previous primary school where my son was dis-applied and they admitted it was to make the end results better - we removed my son because of this admission from them )

Maddie, it was phased out as a centrally funded programme in mid-2005.
You may have a similar thing at a local level but it is not a nationwide project anymore - no need to laugh!

Blimey Eileen !!!

Steady on girl !!!

People come on here for relaxation and a laugh. Txt speak on here doesn't mean people use it in the real world! No offence meant xx