Results Analysis

Finished the results analysis first thing this morning. I have been trying to compare the Standard Grade, Intermediate and Higher results of last years students to the courses they are sitting this year. In doing this I hoped to identify a small group of students that might be ‘selling themselves short’. For example they might have started the Intermediate 2 course before the summer but in the Standard Grade exam they had achieved a credit pass. This student might be able to cope with the demands of the higher course. The analysis showed a small group of students that fell into this category.

Got around a few more classes at registration today. Got a bit muddled up with the S3 and S4 classes – think managed to recover much to the amusement of the class!

Met my S3 Social education class. We are doing a unit on personal safety this term. Although I picked up my resource pack from the cupboard I decided to spend the double period trying to get to know the class a little bit better. We had a discussion on what we meant by personal safety and then we talked a little bit about hobbies and interests. I brought bebo, myspace and facebook into our conversation and I explained that we would come back to chat rooms and on-line communities when we spoke about internet safety in a few weeks time. This is one part of the course that I would like to develop. Perhaps Struan’s bebo lesson might come in handy here?

Other jobs: Contacted the local minister to help put this years assembly rota together, spoke with a parent about appeals, break time duty and lots of other bits and pieces!

One bit of good news is that our new data projectors will arrive tomorrow! Thanks for the email Karen!

Back at home I finished putting me bit of the appeals evidence together for the DGS Geography appeal.

PS: Great link from David on how to speed up these exc-el posts!