Today I finally finished work on a spreadsheet of jobs for the TES. February 14th was the date the list was created, so some 105 days later the thing is finally ready to be sent back to them.
The job involved locating, downloading, reviewing, and recategorising, 952 resources on their website. These were ones they had identified as needing some attention. They asked for volunteers. I got in there and was given the task along with quite a few others. The subject I was given was PSHCE – Personal, Social, Health and Citizenship Education. This covers a huge range of things from expression of feelings, to drug awareness, to being part of the community. We try not to teach all of those things at the same time however.
The hardest part was locating the required resource on the website in the first place. This required some incredibly specific Googling and took a vast amount of time. Remember I’m doing this at home too, so it’s my electricity as well!
I felt a little strange logging on to look at other people’s work. I had access to alter pretty much anything on their page and it was very tempting to alter punctuation, typing and spelling errors alongside the job I had been asked to do. As a professional people, we should be very good at these things, but actually, it’s quite easy to find teachers who just can’t handle things like that. I know that this blog has the occasional error in it – no one can ever catch them all before pressing that Publish button – and Mrs Pitts generally spots them as she reads (I slyly log back in and alter the ones she points out, so this place is relatively error free). However, it’s all too easy to make a typing error and some are understandable. Reasonably unforgivable though, in my view, are random apostrophes, misused prefixes (‘uncomplete’) and the easier ones.
How can we ever set an example to our classes if we can’t spot mistakes in our own work 95% of the time? (I’m being generous with the 5% error expectation there…)
Anyway, today was a delight generally. No issues to report. My class are really settling into becoming a hard working bunch. I’m looking forward to the Spanish Grand Prix this weekend – three weeks is too long for a gap between races – as well as drumming with Grange Moor in Golcar and Grange Moor itself. Fun!
