Friday 28th November 2014

[TechnicalEphemera]

I'm sorry but this is going too far, the immigration thing is now out of hand
"Tebbit Wants EU Migrants To Be Assessed By Who Their Family Fought For In World War II"

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Yes he is old and perhaps out of touch, but he is still given a voice the right can rally round.

Why is this described as dropping a bomb into the debate.

Surely this calls for a full page picture on the front page of the G with the word Twat written in 36 point font.

[Tish]

Maybe as a response to all the Wallace and Grommit digs, Aardman appear to have cast Ed Miliband in the role of the Maitre'd in their new Shaun the Sheep film.

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[Tish]

I'm sorry but this is going too far, the immigration thing is now out of hand
"Tebbit Wants EU Migrants To Be Assessed By Who Their Family Fought For In World War II"

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/11 ... _hp_ref=tw" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Yes he is old and perhaps out of touch, but he is still given a voice the right can rally round.

Someone's just posted this on Twitter, a reminder of just what Tebbit has always been about:

@COPDdoc: Here's late 90's Tebbit backing the idea of organ donation for a white recipient only http://t.co/nJOmClQiPo" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; #newsnight @BBCNewsnight

(There's an ad that come up first, you have to shut that down to see Tebbit's article).

[citizenJA]

Either way, I don't buy the meeja's bullshit on this. Every last journalist writing about it would avoid that house and its inhabitants like the fucking plague, and everyone knows it, since they are of exactly the same class of people as the politicians that they slag off - although some are actually posher and richer, which makes them even better shills for the rich, moneyed and influential, for whom they draw their pay.

Well the Sun, give it its due, was pretty smart about this. They sent a young journo straight out of the graduate programme to talk to White Van Dan. She was from the area originally, and from a working class family of Sun readers. While the Mail and Telegraph sent people at the same time to grab a quote and run back to the count, the Sun journo stayed with Dan, bonding with him and his family over the loutish football teams they supported and allowing him to be hi-jacked for the paper's political agend. No doubt as far as he was concerned, the Sun was made up of people like him and young journo - not predominantly middle-class careerists with privileged backgrounds. I can't imagine Tom Newton-Dunn would have had the same effect. Remember Quentin 'Gorbals Mick' Letts trying to act as a man of the people?

Bonding with him & his family

edited to add

I'm trying to reconcile the need for cooperation, respectful consideration of others with the fact I don't like everyone I know. General benevolence, kindness combined with boundary setting, caring for myself in order to remain sane & capable of mobility assistance.

[StephenDolan]

Nailed it.


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[RogerOThornhill]

Evening all.

I see The Times is crowing about an ARK free school - ARK Conway -which is leading all others in the country as far as results go.

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/a ... 282325.ece" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Interesting facts gleaned from the Ofsted from last year.

This primary school was opened as a new, free school academy in September 2011. It is part of a wider partnership of schools supported by ARK Schools. Currently there are two classes that provide education for pupils in the Early Years Foundation Stage and Year 1.

Two classes in two years i.e. one form entry - very small primary (ours is three form)

If it was year 1 last year then it's year 2 this...and KS1 SATs. These are internally marked. KS2 are externally marked. They might well be right but it's early days.

Currently the majority of pupils are White British

Er...in Hammersmith? I've just checked and the average for the borough is 29%.

The proportion of pupils supported by school action plus (those who require extra help with their learning) is below average. There are no pupils with statements of special educational needs.

Not exactly your average school then.

So...results marked internally based on teacher assessment for a single class which is out of line with the makeup in the borough and with lower than average SEN.

Think I'll pass on the celebrations...wonder who got them to write this? Not that nice Paul Marshall who sits on the DfE board surely who happens to be the ARK lead sponsor?

[citizenJA]

Good-night, my friends.
love
JA

[HindleA]

George Osborne has snared his own Party in its own austerity trap

William Keegan



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[LadyCentauria]

Evening all.

I see The Times is crowing about an ARK free school - ARK Conway -which is leading all others in the country as far as results go.

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/a ... 282325.ece" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Interesting facts gleaned from the Ofsted from last year.

This primary school was opened as a new, free school academy in September 2011. It is part of a wider partnership of schools supported by ARK Schools. Currently there are two classes that provide education for pupils in the Early Years Foundation Stage and Year 1.

Two classes in two years i.e. one form entry - very small primary (ours is three form)

If it was year 1 last year then it's year 2 this...and KS1 SATs. These are internally marked. KS2 are externally marked. They might well be right but it's early days.

Currently the majority of pupils are White British

Er...in Hammersmith? I've just checked and the average for the borough is 29%.

The proportion of pupils supported by school action plus (those who require extra help with their learning) is below average. There are no pupils with statements of special educational needs.

Not exactly your average school then.

So...results marked internally based on teacher assessment for a single class which is out of line with the makeup in the borough and with lower than average SEN.

Think I'll pass on the celebrations...wonder who got them to write this? Not that nice Paul Marshall who sits on the DfE board surely who happens to be the ARK lead sponsor?

At the time of inspection the school had 60 pupils – an Early Years Foundation Stage class and a Year 1 class.

By the end of the inspection there had been 43 responses to the online questionnaire Parent
View, and nine responses to a staff questionnaire.

(from the Ofsted Report, 2013, in which they observed five lessons carried out by two members of staff)

My bold. Fewer than seven children to each member of staff! Not your average primary school, at all. Be interesting to see how they are faring by the time they have 210 pupils in years Early Years Foundation Stage to Year 6 (ie., across seven year groups.)