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SchoolBase is good on both of these.

Mark the work using comments as ever. Send the marked work as a pdf - that gives the pupil the original document without teacher notes all over it, ready for amendment, and a separate guidance document. The pdf could be saved at least temporarily in email folder or in pupil's work folder or in teacher's folder for that group. Does need a bit of thought as you go along, not automated so less foolproof than you'd want, but it does work.

Does not play nicely with others. Others lose.

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Interesting - I have been looking into this a bit more. The cultural (or political?) differences between countries' attitude to web filtering isn't something that had occurred to me until I read this: http://www.icicte.org/Proceedings2012/Papers/10-3-Moyle.pdf which surprised me by stating that Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands don't filter web content at all. Worth a read, I think! The presenter at BETT, Ann Michaelsen, explained that her classes (secondary school, she teaches English) had 1:1 laptop access and had access to social media throughout the lesson. If exams were to be set which allowed internet access, the big question is about the style of question. The old factual recall question, so easy to test and to mark, becomes near-useless and the replacement questions would be able to test higher skills. And we have had open-book exams for some time, and exams where annotated set texts are brought in to the room.

Interested by a talk at BETT today. In Denmark and in Norway there have been pilot experiments where school exams have allowed the students full web access. Is this the way forward in the long run? Connected Test-Taking: Is It Cheating? | Powerful Learning Practice

And we think we have it bad - this from the Old Merthyr website - AA patrolmen digging out an AA phone box

Replacement if uninsured can be hideously expensive. Mine would have been approaching £900 but esure covered it all bar an excess. While I was hanging around (it was more convenient to take the car to the Autoglass workshop than have them come to me) I overheard a quote for a Mercedes of £1200 and that wasn't for a genuine Mercedes part, which would have been even more.

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Interesting if marginally dated piece on profits and losses on the Parliament website: HC 591 The cost of motor insurance

Unhelpful for your immediate problem, but long-term it's worth specifying a heated windscreen when the school buys/leases a new minibus. Justifiable on safety/visibility grounds. Surprisingly good value.

When I were a lad, Christmas morning always began with feeding livestock, then home for breakfast, then mucking out, and another round in the evening. We managed to squeeze in morning service in church, and an evening dinner. I was reminded of this when taking dog out on Christmas morning and we were passed by the milk tanker.

Main thing stopping it snowing is the Bursar's decision to buy a 4WD minibus to ensure that pupils can be bussed to school.

If it's that short and from a one-time pad, it's virtually uncrackable.

Try the American Museum at Claverton Manor. Quite a surprise to find it in Bath.

Let's all be grateful we can remember at least some names! Oliver Sacks' book The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat makes you think, and the rare people who suffer from prosapognosia must have a very difficult life!

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I seem to remember being told that one of the acceptance tests for computer equipment for Nimrod aircraft was that it should continue to work after having a thermos of coffee poured into it.....

Responsibility for PAT testing before installation, perhaps? Something tedious like "as seen, no warranty"?

Too many people read the Daily Mail? Too few people go off to check facts?

This letter to The Guardian makes the balance fairly clear, I think: Letter: Facts about US-UK extradition requests | Law | The Guardian I quote here the statistics paragraph: The Home Office received 95 extradition requests from the US between 1 January 2004 and 31 July 2009; 47 of these have taken place, with 36 ongoing, five withdrawn by the US and seven refused by UK authorities. The UK has made 42 extradition requests to the US during the same period; 27 of these have taken place, with 12 ongoing, three withdrawn by the UK and none refused. The numbers of requests made between the UK and its extradition partners are often unequal – Spain extradited 104 people to us between 2004 and 2008 and received 27 – but this signifies no imbalance in the governing arrangements. More up-to-date stats on the US Embassy website FAQs on the US-UK Extradition Relationship | Embassy of the United States : Under this treaty, 130 extradition REQUESTS have been submitted from the U.S. to the UK. Of those 130 requests, the UK has refused 10. Of the remaining 120, 77 individuals have actually been extradited from the UK to the U.S.; and in the other 43 cases, either the case is still pending in the UK system or the individuals returned to the U.S. on their own, or some other circumstance intervened to make extradition from the UK to the U.S. no longer necessary/relevant. During the same time period, the UK has submitted 54 extradition REQUESTS to the U.S., of which none have been refused. Of those 54 requests, 38 have so far resulted in extradition of an individual from the U.S. to the UK. Of the remaining 16 cases, the individuals either returned to the UK on their own, or some other circumstance intervened to make extradition from the U.S. to the UK no longer necessary/relevant. (No extradition requests from the UK are waiting further processing in the U.S. system at this time.) We don’t track extraditions by the citizenship of the accused -- requests are sent based on where a person accused of a crime is believed to be, not based on their citizenship. We can’t say definitively how many of these requests or extraditions were of U.S. or UK citizens, but citizens of a wide range of countries are represented in these numbers.

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The vast majority will own their own machines. Need to provide for those who don't, and also provide printing facilities. Good advice in this thread already on that. Might need to think hard about physical security of so many laptops, a really tempting target for an enterprising burglar. You'll have very strong pressure for them to be able to email and Skype parents and family; we had very upset parents when they learned that Skype wasn't available. If they are in school, it would make teaching/learning sense for them to have access to school resources and of course their own folders on their own machines. Filtering of course, but worth thinking about how else they may be accessing the web via smartphones etc which you can't control, and therefore consider educational as well as technical approaches. All of this needs talking through at length with boarding staff as well as academic management so that everyone knows and understands what the plans are and how they have been decided upon. Communicate the outcomes to parents, too!

I don't have dual nationality, but some experience in the family. My cousin has dual Swiss/UK and he simply finds it easier to travel in Europe on a Swiss ID card rather than bothering with either passport. A friend has triple UK/US/Irish and says the only difficulty is remembering which passport she used to enter a country when travelling - it's wise to enter and leave on the same passport! And no, I don't believe the Border Agency know if you have another nationality. I assume you are asking from the point of view of someone who is naturalised as UK citizen? Some countries have a law that says that if one of their nationals naturalises as another nationality, then they lose their original citizenship. So a Ruritanian naturalising as British would not have dual nationality.

On e-safety it'll be well worth having a discussion with the school's Child Protection officer (who might or might not be the Head Teacher) and also with the Personal and Social Education/Citizenship leader.