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« Reply #6765 on: 13:25:49, 07-08-2008 » |
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I'm full of admiration for teachers. It isn't a job I could ever do.
At the school mine attends, they organise a "holiday club" every day during the school holidays from 9 till 5.30 with teachers from the school in attendance. This is for 8 weeks in total, because they have 2 weeks longer than the State schools. My child only goes in an emergency or if there's a school trip, like today to the zoo. For those mothers who work, this facility is a godsend of course. £22.00 per day. You can just send them for half the day for £11.00. I've done that a couple of times when I've been feeling really rough just so that I can have a sleep.
He moves up to year 3 in September and the holiday club is in the prep school building where the holiday club takes place. I've seen teachers in there every time I've been, preparing classrooms and discussing work projects.
People just don't realise how much work they do in their "spare time".
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« Reply #6766 on: 18:21:35, 07-08-2008 » |
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Wow, IGI. You have my sympathy. I had no idea about you had to do all the cleaning. What do the school cleaners do then??
Best of luck IGI!!!
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« Reply #6767 on: 22:07:54, 07-08-2008 » |
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And, lest anyone's thinking about university lecturers in this regard, let me assure you that the meetings go on, admissions have to be dealt with, new curricula have to be developed... and, oh yes, we're meant to publish tons of stuff too.  Now, where's my brain pen? |
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« Reply #6768 on: 22:14:45, 07-08-2008 » |
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Now, where's my brain?
Perhaps with the others you were encouraging Richard to imbibe? |
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« Reply #6769 on: 22:18:11, 07-08-2008 » |
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« Reply #6770 on: 22:38:23, 07-08-2008 » |
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Oi! Mrtle of the new Avatar of a green steer, I heard that. Nothing wrong with a pint of Rev. James brewed by the Welsh Brewery with the unfortunate name of Brains is there?
Puts me in mind of the Rev. Eli Jenkins, there is no known likeness of his father Esau who, when undog collared because of his little weakness, was scythed to death to the bone one harvest when sleeping with his weakness in the corn. He lost all ambition and died, with one leg.
To die of drink and agriculture.
That is a particularly Welsh viewpoint.
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« Reply #6771 on: 08:30:32, 08-08-2008 » |
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Interesting about the university lecturers, Martle! Keeps everyone rather busy, then!
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« Reply #6772 on: 08:56:57, 08-08-2008 » |
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I was always told when I was a teacher that I started the day at 9 and finished at 3... yeh right! After school rehearsals of 2 orchestras and the 5 choirs was just a starter, and 20 minutes for lunch too! Someone once worked out that if we worked the requisite number of hours the govt said we should we would have finished the academic year by about February! I think now I am retired, the joy is not having to 'jump' at the bell and either run somewhere else or change my thinking pattern from year 7s to year 13s in about 2 minutes!! At least it wasn't a boring job- no-one can say teaching is boring!! A  |
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Martin
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« Reply #6773 on: 10:06:31, 08-08-2008 » |
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20 minutes for lunch too!
I used to know a singing teacher who taught from 8.30am till 7.00pm without any break except if a pupil did not turn up. She arrived before school to give the early lessons, taught right through the day and did the after school lessons when the site became the local authority music centre for the evening. Apparently she was happy to snack through the pupils' lessons if necessary. I'm sure she may well have had gaps through the day, but I certainly wouldn't have wanted to be one of her pupils during the twilight session. Makes you wonder, doesn't it? |
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Ruth Elleson
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« Reply #6774 on: 10:11:05, 08-08-2008 » |
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Frankly the idea of having a singing lesson at 8:30 in the morning doesn't really appeal, either! Is anybody in good voice at that time of day?
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Oft hat ein Seufzer, deiner Harf' entflossen,
Ein süßer, heiliger Akkord von dir
Den Himmel beßrer Zeiten mir erschlossen,
Du holde Kunst, ich danke dir dafür!
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« Reply #6775 on: 10:16:40, 08-08-2008 » |
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Frankly the idea of having a singing lesson at 8:30 in the morning doesn't really appeal, either! Is anybody in good voice at that time of day?
Lots of choirboys have to be! And at school we could belt out a good hymn and psalm at approx. that time. |
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Ruth Elleson
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« Reply #6776 on: 10:22:28, 08-08-2008 » |
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Yes, but there's a difference between having to be in good voice(i.e. doing as well as you can at that time of day) and actually being in good voice. I mean, I know I can be in good voice at 10am (start time for church choir practice) but I'm almost invariably in better voice later in the day, when, usually, nobody needs me to sing  |
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« Reply #6777 on: 16:00:28, 08-08-2008 » |
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What about warming up? Isn't there some danger in just plunging in to belt out a hymn or two?
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Ruth Elleson
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« Reply #6778 on: 16:10:56, 08-08-2008 » |
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Our Sunday-morning choir rehearsal is generally structured so as to form a natural warm-up. For an ordinary Sunday-morning mass we need to rehearse a mass setting, communion anthem and a Gregorian responsorial psalm, so generally speaking the rehearsal order will be: Psalm, Kyrie, Agnus Dei, Sanctus & Benedictus, anthem, Gloria, recap on anything that needs another look. Sometimes, if (for example) the anthem is pretty gentle, we might do it earlier in the rehearsal. Anyhow, by the time we have to "belt" the opening hymn at 11am, we've worked up to it.
Nonetheless, on the few occasions when we have an evening rehearsal and service, singing always seems that bit easier, all other factors being equal.
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Oft hat ein Seufzer, deiner Harf' entflossen,
Ein süßer, heiliger Akkord von dir
Den Himmel beßrer Zeiten mir erschlossen,
Du holde Kunst, ich danke dir dafür!
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« Reply #6779 on: 18:04:24, 08-08-2008 » |
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20 minutes for lunch too!
I used to know a singing teacher who taught from 8.30am till 7.00pm without any break except if a pupil did not turn up. She arrived before school to give the early lessons, taught right through the day and did the after school lessons when the site became the local authority music centre for the evening. Apparently she was happy to snack through the pupils' lessons if necessary. I'm sure she may well have had gaps through the day, but I certainly wouldn't have wanted to be one of her pupils during the twilight session. Makes you wonder, doesn't it? I couldn't really have eaten in front of a class of pupils or an orchestra or choir rehearsal but I did have a viola player who did just this as she had a viola lesson the same lunchtime as orchestra! A  |
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