(24 Jan 2015, 6:30 pm)Tommy_1581 wrote LOL - did you leave it like that?

I sure did! I saw them and from the start i knew i couldn't just leave them without taking an advantage. Its a shame they didn't do a F and a U alongside the C and a K, i would have been quite happy to make that one too.

(24 Jan 2015, 7:04 pm)Robert wrote I sure did! I saw them and from the start i knew i couldn't just leave them without taking an advantage. Its a shame they didn't do a F and a U alongside the C and a K, i would have been quite happy to make that one too.

You've got guts. We need guts. I'm promoting you.

(24 Jan 2015, 7:04 pm)Robert wrote I sure did! I saw them and from the start i knew i couldn't just leave them without taking an advantage. Its a shame they didn't do a F and a U alongside the C and a K, i would have been quite happy to make that one too.

Did they they have an S and a H alongside an I and then finally a T.

I'll be honest the word you could spell with them letters could describe the item in question.

(24 Jan 2015, 7:17 pm)Jimmi wrote Did they they have an S and a H alongside an I and then finally a T.

I'll be honest the word you could spell with them letters could describe the item in question.

Yeah, when i was arranging them, they did feel a bit plasticy and i doubt the would have lasted that long before breaking in some way.

This has to be bullshit right...
http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/554...-next-week

(25 Jan 2015, 9:22 pm)Malarkey wrote This has to be bullshit right...
http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/554...-next-week

Lol! Somebody im in a skype conversation with posted that exact same link just 1 minute before you on here  

(25 Jan 2015, 9:22 pm)Malarkey wrote This has to be bullshit right...
http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/554...-next-week

It'll be cold with potential for snow but not 'end of the world' like they're predicting...

(25 Jan 2015, 10:10 pm)tyresmoke wrote It'll be cold with potential for snow but not 'end of the world' like they're predicting...

It is always like this everytime it snows especially if it snows in London just me gets annoyed when you hear TV studios in London talking about what the weather is like there while other parts of the country have much worse weather but they don't mention this.

http://www.unilad.co.uk/articles/this-po...-and-lose/

Would be from Sunderland.

(26 Jan 2015, 7:14 am)Dan wrote http://www.unilad.co.uk/articles/this-po...-and-lose/

Would be from Sunderland.

Oh dear haha!

(25 Jan 2015, 9:22 pm)Malarkey wrote This has to be bullshit right...
http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/554...-next-week

The Daily Express have a reputation for exaggerating on the weather.
Take it with a pinch of salt.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/549...old-winter

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/g...han-powell

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.

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-...uders.html

(29 Jan 2015, 4:55 pm)Malarkey wrote 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-...uders.html

Nothing new there, shit like that went on for years during the Cold War, NATO has done similar, The Americans over flying Russian airspace in the 60's and we probably did too...One tactic the Russians used to employ was to send supposed 'fishing trawlers' into our waters at the height of the Cold War, I was told some of them trawlers looked like a mini-communications hub with all the aerials it carried.

We have done sneakies at Sea too, my dad told me when he was in the Navy, HMS Conqueror(which he served) was once despatched somewhere in the Mediterranean to sneak a look at some Russian Surface Vessel, they got caught and the Russkies even dropped depth charges.

As for what Putin would do today, I dont know, protest to the highest authorities of our government, probably bring it up at the UN, send up interceptors to ask us nicely to go home...I dont think it would go as far as war or anything, but there may be quite a bit sabre rattling and games of one - upmanship

(26 Jan 2015, 2:03 pm)Tommy_1581 wrote 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.

Probably putting a plastic bag down there to make his vegetables look bigger for the ladies (or men depending on their sexual orientation)  

(26 Jan 2015, 2:03 pm)Tommy_1581 wrote 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.

Might be having a danger wank on the move

You would have to pretty close to hear someone throw a glass bottle

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

They always seem to refer to someone as gay whilst they have their hands down their pants, I wonder if they hope you say yes in the hope of having some cheeky bum sex behind ASDA.

Isn't it more commonly a pair of sports socks.

What is this about Russian Bombers flying close to Scotland?

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

It was the English Channel mate

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

I'm sure the news said Scotland? whys everyone worried about it?

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

It's nowt to be worried about. As someone else said, this kind of stuff used to happen all the time during the Cold War. It's just a game of chicken, nothing will happen. MAD puts a stop to that!

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

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.

(29 Jan 2015, 7:58 pm)Andreos1 wrote 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.

Happened hundreds of times in the last few years...

Of course at the moment, the inquiry into the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko opened this week and the blame for that pretty much lies at The Kremlin, so I suspect it is nothing more than Putin flexing his muscles...

I think the big problem in this instance is it interfered with Civil Aviation as it's transponders were turned off, even though the bombers at no point came into UK Sovereign Airspace, I am guessing this interception happened over International Waters

Jesus, its bitter this morning, forgot my hat and gloves to!

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, 7:34 pm)MarcTheA4 wrote 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...

My 1st headmaster at Easington Comp was a complete tool...We called him God as he had seemingly been around since the dawn of time

Quite a tragic story your headmaster told you

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, 9:47 pm)Andreos1 wrote 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?

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.

(30 Jan 2015, 10:58 pm)Adam wrote 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.

Cheers Adam!
Will have a look. Have a stack of stuff from one of my degrees, but anything else isn't going to do any harm.

Appreciate it.