(26 Sep 2014, 4:56 pm)Marcus wrote Lol - can't wait until I'm in the Sixth Form. They get to do whatever the fuck they like at our school!
Our headmaster always patrols around the canteen and hall at break time, and today, a Sixth Former paid for two fizzy drinks, fizzed one up, then unleashed it on some Year 10 Girls, before doing the same to the the other and throwing it about 20 yards to the top of the canteen where it landed on a table crowded by Year 13 Girls.
He didn't do much, like. He just told him to settle down. I'm telling you, anyone from Years 9-11 would be strung up and exhibited in reception!!
I'm really enjoying it.
You have more motivation to go to lessons because by and large, people pick subjects which they enjoy (and I've always been a believer than if you enjoy a subject, you tend to get better grades in it).
The free periods are great, too. I've said in the past how I have eight hours worth of free periods in the past, and I've structured them quite nicely:
- Monday Periods 4/5 (13:50 - 16:00) - Go Home/Chill.
- Tuesday Period 2 (10:35 - 11:35) - Chill (need to recover from the previous English lesson, and prepare for the one ahead of me after that free period!)
- Tuesday Period 5 (15:00 - 16:00) - Go Home/Chill.
- Thursday Period 1 (09:15 - 10:15) - Homework.
- Thursday Period 3 (11:40 - 12:40) - Go Home (early lunch)/Chill.
- Thursday Period 4 (13:55 - 14:55) - Chill.
- Friday Period 1 (09:15 - 10:15) - Homework.
The 'chill' periods often see us playing cards, having a bitching session, or me having a natter on with some of the staff (the first 15 minutes of my English lesson today was made up by me just talking to one of the secretaries and a teacher - they've got some decent banter).
The 'homework' periods allow me to catch up on homework due in that day, that I should have done the night before (or whenever I received it). Means I've got more time to do what I want on a night, which is great.
The 'go home' periods allow me to do what I want - whether it's go out, actually go home...
A couple of people are moaning and groaning about how their work is so difficult and how they regret taking certain subjects, or resent going to the lessons, but I really don't have that issue...