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That sounds structural, or at least it sounds like it was structural when first built. If it's any consolation, it's probably always been damp, just that now you see it with the leveling compound in place to show it. There is no quick fix, get a few specialists to look at it before you go any further.

I'm being let out for a day to the ASCL "Using Data Better" conference tomorrow. Any other Edugeek DM's going? It'd be nice to put some faces to names if there are.

How about an apple peeling contest? Longest piece of peel wins.

Tru dat; none of mine were taken with tripods - just adjust the ISO / f-stop to keep the shutter speed above the focal length and Robert is your mother's brother. I was using up to 400mm lenses but always had a shutter speed at at least 1/500. When you're shooting wildlife in the raw you want a shallow depth of field so dropping to f4 or f2.8 to make the subject stand out against the background is a plus. Upping the ISO to 800 or 1600 is perfectly acceptable on modern DSLRs. That, and the fact that I was shooting in Wyoming in June *and* these are just six of the several hundred images I captured - you can guess the rest

Easy peasy - I cleared 3800 in a week

Seconded

Welcome Word dejour I'm not sure we're supposed to; but we can, and we will if it helps beat bureaucracy

Great picture

One of my colleagues just tagged my picture

No zoos for me - I was lucky enough to see all mine in the wild this summer.

Amen to that

Wyoming Wildlife

That's what I'm hoping!

We were told that UCAS Progress (and others) would populate the data; that perception is now being questioned :-(

Take a deep breath and remember, it'll all be over by this time next week

The Learner Records Agency holds all the results for any given individual. Someone at your school should hold an account so that you can get the ULN (Unique Learner Number) for pupils over 14 every census. As well as providing that service, the LRS portal allows you to look up the prior achievements of anyone provided you can supply their ULN.

Well, an afternoon spent in the company of County has produced nothing more that I already knew, quelle surpise. Speaking to fellow DMs it seems the LRS route is popular. There is also an organisation called UK National Academic Recognition Information Centre (UKNARIC) who publish lists of which foreign qualifications count as equivalent to GCSE English / Maths. There is an "exception" listing on the census for those not in receipt of English and Maths GCSEs who are not taking these subjects in post-16 education. More on the funding issues can be found in the link below. NOTE - English Lit GCSE counts too, so the census should have the highest of English Lit or English Lang recorded. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/16-to-19-funding-maths-and-english-condition-of-funding

If I'm understanding this correctly, yes it is certain. Some aspect of funding (beyond my pay grade) is dependent on students taking GCSE Maths and/or English if they have not obtained this at the end of KS4. Some people are resorting to using LRS to find out the results; there will always be those (foreign) students for whom we have no data, and I believe these can be accepted in the census even though they throw up errors. I'm off to a briefing from County this afternoon - if anything crops up I'll post here later.

Oh, you betcha they are. We're lucky insofar as we've collected GCSE results from "new" entrants to our Sixth Form for the past few years to use with our forecasting, so all I need to do is populate SIMS with Maths and English data for 300 students - yeah

Tools / Setups / Attendance Setup / Module Setup - you can select "display preferred forename" here.

Fileset 205 is the latest one available, get it from My Account or your SIMS support people. I did mine yesterday and got in excess of 3500 errors!

My bad, PoS KS3 Aspects.xml was bundled in the zip file with the patch (or at least mine were).

The files you need are stored locally on your machine in ..\Program Files\SIMS\SIMS .net\AMPA - there are a series of folders for different school types here. These need to be imported via Routines / Data In / Assessment / Import

I'm not sure that applying the timetable will solve the problem, just that it's always the first thing I'm asked to look at if I ever ask our support team for help with a timetable issue. Applying the timetable is something I've had to do at least once each academic year, it is part of the setting up of a new academic year. It aligns the periods of the timetable (from Nova) with the days of the week (from SIMS). This is my experience, such that it is.

It does answer my question, in the negative! From my limited experience, this is the first port of call whenever a timetable type query is passed to our county helpdesk.