Today has yet again been solely focussed on report writing. The end is in sight however, with 13 complete reports submitted for reviewing and 9 to finish tomorrow night (hopefully)
The writing of reports is possibly the lowest point of the school year for me. I find it takes over life completely and there’s always a fine line in some cases between being professional, being honest and getting a point across without being rude. Diplomacy is the key to it. An old head of mine always wanted reports to be as positive as possible and anything negative would be utterly struck out long before parents got to see them. This was right at the start of my career when I covered a class for a term as the teacher was on maternity leave. Actually the very first set of reports I ever wrote after roughly seven weeks of teaching the class. They aren’t an easy thing to do at the best of times, but I ended up doing them twice that year…
Still, a lesson learnt and actually, I tend to agree these days. Things need to be spun in such a way that there are negatives there but balanced along with something positive. That’s not to say that negative things get buried at all, but care is taken over how they are written.
Anyway, enough of that. Today’s cache fills a calendar gap and a D/T grid gap. Each cache is rated for difficulty and terrain. There are 81 possible combinations of difficulty versus terrain and GC1433G: Silence has a difficulty of 4.5 and a terrain rating of 2. We had never found a cache fulfilling that criteria before so that was good. The cache itself wasn’t hard to find, but the route to it, solving the puzzle, was. Take a look at it using the link above and see what you think. We had solved it long ago, but just taken roughly 18 months to actually go and get the thing!
