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post Feb 27 2008, 01:39 PM
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I wonder how many people knew that skylarks were rockets?
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Miss Ross
post Feb 27 2008, 03:01 PM
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I was just called a 'skink' by a first year...

A) Why? and B) What is is? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)
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post Feb 27 2008, 03:11 PM
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QUOTE(Miss Ross @ Feb 27 2008, 04:01 PM) *

I was just called a 'skink' by a first year...

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No idea

QUOTE(Miss Ross @ Feb 27 2008, 04:01 PM) *

and B) What is is?

A lizard with no legs (i.e. like a snake - not one that has had them pulled off)

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post Feb 27 2008, 09:16 PM
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I'm not sure that one's reached Yorkshire in that context...
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post Feb 27 2008, 09:22 PM
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I've only lost 3 marks on all my music coursework and have consistantly been getting A*s in our mocks, yet I'm still predicted an A not an A* for music, and my teacher says she won't/can't change it (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif)
I know it seems so concieted and picky about it being an A not an A*, but it just annoyes me so much!!
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post Feb 27 2008, 10:28 PM
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QUOTE(Devil_Fiddler @ Feb 27 2008, 09:22 PM) *

I've only lost 3 marks on all my music coursework and have consistantly been getting A*s in our mocks, yet I'm still predicted an A not an A* for music, and my teacher says she won't/can't change it (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif)
I know it seems so concieted and picky about it being an A not an A*, but it just annoyes me so much!!

Don't worry, D_F, I expect it's all to do with teacher performance. If enough pupils get higher grades than predicted it makes the teacher look good and keeps the Head off her back! It doesn't really matter what you're predicted at GCSE - the result you get is what counts - so don't give it another thought.
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post Feb 28 2008, 12:54 AM
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QUOTE(Devil_Fiddler @ Feb 27 2008, 09:22 PM) *

I've only lost 3 marks on all my music coursework and have consistantly been getting A*s in our mocks, yet I'm still predicted an A not an A* for music, and my teacher says she won't/can't change it (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif)
I know it seems so concieted and picky about it being an A not an A*, but it just annoyes me so much!!


A lot of our teachers just didn't predict A*, as they saw it as a 'better A'. Also, IMO, if you get predicted top grades, you can only get worse, so the pressure is really on, as if you get anything other than the A*, you will feel a failure if that's what you were predicted. Whereas if you were predicted A, then got A*, you'd be really happy. did that make sense? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)
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[A lot of our teachers just didn't predict A*, as they saw it as a 'better A'. Also, IMO, if you get predicted top grades, you can only get worse, so the pressure is really on, as if you get anything other than the A*, you will feel a failure if that's what you were predicted. Whereas if you were predicted A, then got A*, you'd be really happy. did that make sense? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)

I agree. My son was predicted 9 A* and 1A - which is precisely what he got. Lots of hi friends did better than predicted and were really happy, whereas he just felt he'd done no better than expected.
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I was predicted 8A*, 1A. What really got to me was that my english teacher predicted me A*s when i blatently was never going to get them (got an A and a B), so i spent most of the two years feeling a bit of a failure. Then, to the opposite extreme, the predicted A was for textiles, which, except perhaps for maths, was the subject i felt most certain I'd get A* in. Then, in art, i was predicted A*, because i was capable of getting one, but had to settle for 'just' an A in the end because i didn't have enough time to do the volume of work needed for the A*. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)
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post Feb 28 2008, 01:50 AM
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I was predicted 11 A*s. I got 5A*s 4As and 2Bs, but that was because I was quite lazy and didn't do much work for my least favourite subject. It was very disappointing though, especially because I got full marks in all my English practice essays, messed up on the day and dropped a few - whilst my two friends both got in the top five marks, and got special certificates.

Still, your teacher is probably basically looking at you and thinking "yay! value added!" because your prediction is not given by them - it's based on your yr 9 SATs - all of them together, and is often the head of their department's choice after knowing the computer score... if that makes sense? As it happens if you do better than your prediction your teacher gets value added, if you do worse she gets value taken away - and if she doesn't get enough value added in a year she doesn't get her payrise... Which sounds sort of mercenary, but it's understandable that she'd want it.

That's also why she can't change it - if she changed the prediction of the whole class to U, she'd gets plenty of value added - it's like cheating.

(Can you tell my mum's a teacher?)
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post Feb 28 2008, 11:07 AM
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I'm not sure that one's reached Yorkshire in that context...
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I'm listening to Gerry Rafferty's 'Baker Street' at the moment, desperately trying to resist playing air guitar... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

^ I love that song!


The clocks go forward this month! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/yay.gif)
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27th March isn't actually terribly far away! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/yay.gif)

(Sorry, that might look like it's related to skylarks comment - it isn't! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif))
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