The Magic Spell is Cast
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-06-07 06:25:08
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 sign he could: “All Librans are on target 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 have been locked up long ago. And in case you’re wondering we’re not sending out any data on CDs by post. Many of the year assort 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 give of teachers doctors lawyers vets electricians carpenters engineers and artists. I’ve asked several to let me have details when they answer. You never know when you’ll need a good plumber but I’m not sure I’ll ever need the midwife or the equine vet go to think of it. Sorry ladies. It’s a fascinating range and mix of talents from a delightful year group. 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 ordain have great value added. The Government norm (don’t laugh or even ask why) is 1,000. Anything above is giving extra value. Anything below … well 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 value added no Government official has dared to go. I’ve been overwhelmed by the comprehend and appear of nearly a hundred youngsters performing the musical. Starchild at the very limits of professionalism. A step further 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 company acting as one inter-dependent creature an intelligence with many parts. How can you count the extra that productions sport 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 sheer dazzling quality of what has been achieved the spine-tingling impact and the knowledge that this will change the lives of those who take part. So it’s hands off to the civil servants who try to use statistics to analyse schools. What really matters to our children and their parents is not the number 1010 but the enriching experience of education at its best. On that re-create the magic recite is cast and even the Data Wizard himself will gasp in amazement.
South Dartmoor Community College is an 11-18 co-educational comprehensive school serving a wide rural catchment area of over 310 form 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 undergo approximately 1700 students including a lively sixth create of around 300.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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