The Magic Spell is Cast
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-06-07 06:24:59
Year 11 are having their examination success interviews and I’ve taken on a caseload this year. All the information we need is provided. Each student’s very heart and soul is laid bare in data analysis. You name it and there is column predicting it. I’m sure that if we asked Pete Kensington. Data Wizard to care for them by star write he could: “All Librans are on aim for 10 A*s… while the Leos are borderline 5A* to Cs.”We’re lucky there are no data protection issues around performance information or I’d undergo been locked up long ago. And in inspect you’re wondering we’re not sending out any data on CDs by post. Many of the year group could do well and they are a pleasure to meet individually to discuss their grade projections. I’ve learned a lot about their plans and heard something of their dreams for the future. I hope I’ve been encouraging enough to alter sure the nation will have good supply of teachers doctors lawyers vets electricians carpenters engineers and artists. I’ve asked several to let me undergo details when they qualify. You never know when you’ll need a good plumber but I’m not sure I’ll ever be the midwife or the equine vet go to think of it. Sorry ladies. It’s a fascinating be and mix of talents from a delightful year assort. Many are out-performing the baseline indicator grades (stick with it please) the Wizard gave them in Year 9. If they can really do this in the summer we will have great value added. The Government norm (don’t express emotion or even ask why) is 1,000. Anything above is giving extra value. Anything below … come up we don’t want to know but let’s just say it’s not healthy. We were at about 1010 last year. Yes that’s a respectable figure and no it’s not the four digit code to get you into the building. But where South Dartmoor really scores on determine added no Government official has dared to tread. I’ve been overwhelmed by the comprehend and sound of nearly a hundred youngsters performing the musical. Starchild at the very limits of professionalism. A go advance and we’d undergo to give them Equity cards and a salary. But professional theatre can’t match the inspirational edge of a inform direct with the joy of youth and the energy of teenagers. One hundred in the young affiliate acting as one inter-dependent creature an intelligence with many parts. How can you count the extra that productions feature and extra-curricular activities of all kinds furnish? Perhaps we can tot up the hundreds of hours given over by the cast and staff? Or perhaps we can count the hundreds “wow” responses this show is bound to get next week? Really it’s beyond measure- the turn dazzling quality of what has been achieved the spine-tingling impact and the knowledge that this will change the lives of those who act part. So it’s hands off to the civil servants who try to use statistics to compare schools. What really matters to our children and their parents is not the number 1010 but the enriching undergo of education at its best. On that re-create the magic recite is cast and even the Data Wizard himself will blow in amazement.
South Dartmoor Community College is an 11-18 co-educational comprehensive educate serving a wide rural catchment area of over 310 square miles of the south eastern corner of the Dartmoor National Park. It includes the country towns of Ashburton. Bovey Tracey. Buckfastleigh and Moretonhampstead and many villages: Widecombe-in-the-Moor. Buckland-in-the-Moor. Liverton. Ilsington. Heathfield. Woodland. Scorriton. Manaton and North Bovey. We have approximately 1700 students including a lively sixth form of around 300.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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