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I'll have to start watching this at some point.. feeling left out :(

 

The head used to teach Science at my secondary, had him for a few lessons. Called everyone mate then too :p

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Have you noticed the school ties are clip on ones? :rolleyes:

 

I have a feeling all schools have to have clip on ties or elastic ones now - could be wrong but feel like I heard that somewhere. Something about health and safety. Very strange health and safety!

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I have a feeling all schools have to have clip on ties or elastic ones now - could be wrong but feel like I heard that somewhere. Something about health and safety. Very strange health and safety!

 

Probably for the same reason that the Police wear clip on ties - very difficult to be throttled by them.

 

I'm a bit sad that it's the last one this week... really enjoyed it, as I did Essex. The only TV programme that's ever given a realistic portrayal of life in a school. All the Daily Fail writers whinging that "should our schools be like this?" should try and spend a day teaching. The nature of schools has changed massively in the last decade alone - pastoral care is a much, much greater focus now than it was even when I was there (although maybe my school was just uncaring - it was a traditional grammar of the kind much adored by the Mail, as it happens).

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They also have a very talented TA who has mastered the art of omnipresence and the quick change routine.

 

I think I have seen her change outfit 3 times in one day and be in a lesson whilst also running the inclusion centre.

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When Musharaff started speaking fluently with the music on and you could see the disbelief in his teacher's face that it had actually worked and he'd actually achieved what none of his speech therapists or support workers had managed in a decade? Yeah, it got emotional...
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Have you noticed the school ties are clip on ones? :rolleyes:

 

We had clip on then swapped back to tie-able due to demand and defacing of clip on and then gone back to clip on as many people cannot tie a tie :( You will never win that one really.

 

As for the school, I think the youthfulness of the SLT is a big plus for them, Mr Mitchell clearly realises that somethings will have to be relaxed for that school due to its location and socioeconomic state IE the high number of FSM. The uniform clearly isn't 100% perfect you can see that in all episodes yet I haven't seen too many blazing arguements over it, a few comments but that is it when I think about where I have worked and uniform it shows how other priorities are higher such as getting grades. The style of teaching show by many in the program is also modern and in some ways how my maths teacher taught me GCSE maths well over 10 years ago and how ahead of his time he was and show that not ever child responds with "I'm gonna sue you" for telling them they will fail or to get off there lazy backside and get on with some work.

 

Full marks to him and his team it is a good way of working and I am sure there is many bad times for them and students but with that group of staff it will work well for them :)

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Keep seeing the advert for Britain's Biggest Primary School on Channel 5. Looks to be quite good but I imagine it'll be very different to Educating Yorkshire.

 

Coming soon to Channel 5, Century Films and GroupM Entertainment have been commissioned to produce a four-part series, Britain’s Biggest Primary School.

 

This intimately observed series filmed over the course of two school terms features Gascoigne Primary School in Barking, London - Britain’s Biggest Primary School. More than 1100 pupils, 38 classes, 39 teachers and over 160 staff in total, sharing the same challenges as most schools, but on a much larger scale.

 

 

Gascoigne Primary School - Home

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Educating Eastend was boring and carp compared to it's Yorkshire series... It'll inevitably go down hill and people like channel 5 will try to replicate it like they've done with "On Benefits & Proud" series trying to stir as much controversy as Benefits Street but that was a huge fail....

 

Good old Channel 5 stealing other networks ideas. Plus they really need to sort out their demand service it's a big heaping pile of brown stuffs.

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Does that mean it's your school?

 

It's not MY school. [Well, it's my old primary school from when I was a little babby X-13.]

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It's not MY school. [Well, it's my old primary school from when I was a little babby X-13.]

 

That would explain many things ;)

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