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Richard Ledingham

Thursday 25 May 2006

To my surprise many different things have happened since my last post. Monday was an Edinburgh holiday (very much appreciated) and yesterday was a full in-service day for all staff. It was nice to see a whole staff approach to the various concerns. Having discussed a school review, workshops began to tackle individual problems (I attached myself to one addressing the provisions for gifted and talented children....naturally). More talks in the afternoon about CPD and PR&D opportunities...some fascinating tales (from hat making to relief work in South Africa). The remainder of the time was spent in departments discussing plans for next year.

The second noteworthy event took place today. Us students were interviewed by HMIE with regards to the placement programme. It was reassuring to hear the same stories from all of the other students. I think the main message that we conveyed was the huge variation in how the system is used by departments, regents and schools. Hopefully our coments will help to further improve the placement structure.

Hopefully by Friday I will know which region I will be teaching in next year...beginning to get restless not knowing. Unfortunately we have no idea when we will actually find out which school we are going to within that region.

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