(25 Jan 2015, 9:22 pm)Malarkey This has to be bullshit right...
http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/554183/Britain-red-alert-displaced-Polar-vortex-unleash-weather-hell-next-week

(29 Jan 2015, 4:55 pm)Malarkey Wonder how Putin and Russia would react if we sent a few Fighter Jets over there Air Space, or Navy Ships into there Waters.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2930573/Russian-bombers-skies-Bournemouth-RAF-jets-scramble-intercept-intruders.html

(26 Jan 2015, 2:03 pm)Tommy_1581 Some teenage chav has just walked past my house with his hands down the front of his pants. Also heard him throw a glass bottle too.

(26 Jan 2015, 2:03 pm)Tommy_1581 Some teenage chav has just walked past my house with his hands down the front of his pants. Also heard him throw a glass bottle too.

(29 Jan 2015, 6:12 pm)Robert Probably putting a plastic bag down there to make his vegetables look bigger for the ladies (or men depending on their sexual orientation)  

(29 Jan 2015, 7:33 pm)Tommy_1581 What is this about Russian Bombers flying close to Scotland?

(29 Jan 2015, 7:38 pm)MrFozz It was the English Channel mate

(29 Jan 2015, 7:41 pm)Tommy_1581 I'm sure the news said Scotland?    whys everyone worried about it?

(29 Jan 2015, 7:41 pm)Tommy_1581 I'm sure the news said Scotland?    whys everyone worried about it?

(29 Jan 2015, 7:58 pm)Andreos1 They have been intercepted off the coast of Scotland before. One of the RAF jets came from Scotland (the other Lincs) and were escorted back out, via Ireland and Scotland.

(30 Jan 2015, 7:34 pm)MarcTheA4 Had an interesting assembly delivered from our headteacher today...

He's been working at my school for 24 years now I think, and he's been head for about 8 or 9 of those. He gave us a bit of a life story - started as Head of English in 1990, became Head of Sixth in 1995, a Deputy Head in 1999 and Headteacher in 2006.

He was talking about how much we needed to think about how we influence each other in what we do. He mentioned that on Tuesday 23rd December, he was shopping in the MetroCentre with his wife - when somebody shouted his name. He turned around and realised it was some guy called Chris, who he hadn't seen in about 10 years. They got talking and he said he was just visiting his family in the north east because he had become a Lecturer in Literature down at either Cambridge or Oxford - he couldn't remember exactly which one. Basically, he thanked my headteacher for all the influence he gave him when he struggled at Literature and through his options at GCSE.

Later, in the middle of the day, he was in Eldon Square when he heard someone else shout his name. He looked and saw it was a guy called Peter, who had been in one of his Literature classes in 6th form. They got talking, and the same happened again - the guy thanked him for all the help he had given him, despite him being a bit of a naughty boy during his school life...

My headteacher's day had been made, and when he walking along St. Mary's Place after leaving Eldon Square - he saw somebody who he got a shock at...

A year previously, he had seen a person he recognised as John. He had spent loads of time with John over his time at school...and it hadn't always been positive. When he was Deputy Head, he had been sitting in his office one lunchtime at the bottom of the main building. John, who was in Year 10 at the time - had told him in confidence days earlier that he owed over £500 to some local drug dealers because he was addicted to Cannabis. He ran in, crying, and asked him if he could hide in his office all lunch. He asked why - and he said there was a man off his skull in Chester carrying around a mashete threatening to kill him...he was that scared he actually wet himself while he lay crying and shaking under the sofa...absolutely terrified is what he used to describe him...

Nonetheless, the police were called and the guy was taken in for questioning, etc. and John was given a clean slate. With my headteacher's guidance, he got good GCSEs, and my headteacher took him in his car to College to start his Joinery course, and picked him up the same...but he only lasted two weeks. He vanished off the face of the earth...

That's why my headteacher got the fright of his life, when exactly a year earlier, he had seen John in St. Mary's Place - looking fantastic, and he shouted my headteachers name in joy. They got talking after a brief moment of confusion, and John said he was totally clean, living in a nice flat not far from our school, and was working for the Council doing a small but satisfying job...

When my headteacher saw him exactly a year later - it wasn't the same. He recognised him as he walked down St. Mary's Place, and he looked horrendous. Disgusting in fact. He was thin, possibly starving. His clothes were all raggy and looked huge on him - he recognised them as the same clothes a year earlier...and all John did was look at him and say 'aright'. My headteacher walked on, and decided to go back after him. He wasn't there anymore...

Found out a week or so later that John was dead...

(30 Jan 2015, 9:47 pm)Andreos1 I was at a meeting today and they were on about a few things. There was a presentation about Blooms Taxonomy.

Primarily used in teaching/learning situations, it can also be used in industry when developing or motivating staff or members of the workforce.

It has been a while since I have came across it, but (apart from the usual role play activities...), it was useful.

Despite it being the weekend, I am now ploughing through all sorts of ideas and I am unable to switch off at all.
Any ideas how you can get an individual or group of people who have 'low level' thinking skills - showing knowledge and comprehension, to 'high level' - being able to apply, analyse, synthesise and evaluate ideas, data or theories, in a range of styles and methods?

(30 Jan 2015, 10:58 pm)Adam I may be able to help. At uni, we covered Bloom back in late September/early October. I've been on the Learning Portal and found the associated documents that came along with that week. Please find some of them attached.

EDIT: There's also the actual lecture presentation, but unfortunately it's too large to attach.