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Our classes earn marbles from their teachers for good behaviour, special efforts etc. Each one equates to 4 minutes. KS1 classes have their 'marble time' or 'goldentime' as I think it's known in some schools, every Friday afternoon.
We have Golden Time. The children have to 'earn back' lost Golden Time when they've been given yellow cards, by behaving well. .............. 'fox and hens': one child is the mother hen, three are foxes and the rest are hens. The hens accompany mother hen into the school grounds and choose a hiding place for her, where she waits with an empty basket; the other hens then return to the starting base. All this time, the foxes are hidden away in the classroom. On my whistle, the hens all come and collect a chocolate egg from me and head off into the grounds, their aim being to deliver their egg to the mother hen. Within a minute, the foxes are released. Their job is to collect as many eggs as they can and to locate the mother hen. If they catch a hen, the hen must surrender his or her egg. Of course, the wise foxes will try to follow the hens instead, hoping they will lead them to the mother hen. Wise hens, however, if they suspect they're being followed, can lead them on a wild goose chase, if that isn't mixing metaphors...  Lots of fun and we get to eat the eggs at the end! That sounds great! Bit complicated for my children but perhaps I could adapt it...I suspect there wouldn't be anything like as many eggs by the end of the game as we started with! |
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« Reply #3916 on: 22:09:14, 18-03-2008 » |
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« Reply #3917 on: 22:11:05, 18-03-2008 » |
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You just want to do the sword-fighting, don't you, martle? Or is it the promise of chocolate eggs?!  |
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« Reply #3918 on: 22:25:05, 18-03-2008 » |
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It's the quizzes, IGI. The quizzes.  |
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« Reply #3919 on: 22:30:54, 18-03-2008 » |
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It's the quizzes, IGI. The quizzes. Now, if anyone set Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries in Syd's snatch test, my class would spot it within two bars!!! (Pity, really, that we cannot access SendSpace or Rapdishare from our school pcs - blocked sites - or I'd be getting them researching Marc Roger Couperin and the like...) |
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« Reply #3920 on: 22:53:35, 18-03-2008 » |
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You just want to do the sword-fighting, don't you, martle? Hang on, you do sword-fighting??  Can I enroll for next term?  |
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« Reply #3921 on: 23:50:26, 18-03-2008 » |
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Splendid news MJ. Not just that your inspection went so well, but that you have such a good team to work with.
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« Reply #3922 on: 23:54:49, 18-03-2008 » |
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so tomorrow I'll let my class spend their 'marble time' playing 'foxes and hens' in the school grounds, with easter eggs! What's 'marble time'? Our classes earn marbles from their teachers for good behaviour, special efforts etc. Each one equates to 4 minutes. On IGI's first occasion of mentioning marble time, I read it as martle time. I now have a mental image of lots of schoolchildren going round collecting small green composers for behaving well. martle - do you still want to go back to IGI's school? Tommo |
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« Reply #3923 on: 00:07:44, 19-03-2008 » |
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« Reply #3925 on: 19:34:42, 19-03-2008 » |
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Going back to sword fighting, I always wanted to do fencing and had the option to while I was at 6th form, doing my A levels. Sadly it was so expensive that I couldn't afford it. One of my friends did and she says it was great fun!
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« Reply #3926 on: 12:07:13, 20-03-2008 » |
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Yay: two days work next week. Will probably be emergency-taxed for it. Grrrr. BUT: it's still good news.
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« Reply #3927 on: 12:42:38, 20-03-2008 » |
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If your agency is any good, they should PAYE for you. The ones I used to work for always did. Which saved me a fortune in emergency tax rate.
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« Reply #3928 on: 13:20:18, 20-03-2008 » |
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If your agency is any good, they should PAYE for you. The ones I used to work for always did. Which saved me a fortune in emergency tax rate.
Eh? I haven't payed a bit of tax in about five years now, so I'm a little rusty. Turns out I don't have or need a p45, because I finished up work last year, but these friendly tax people (once I got out of the automated system) will send me out some sort of document anyway. So: here's hoping no emergency tax! |
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« Reply #3929 on: 21:22:04, 20-03-2008 » |
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If the worst comes to the worst, you can always get a nice rebate -theyre pretty good at this these days I found.
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