…if only we could play it. Tonight saw the debut of the finished version of David Bowie’s Heroes for brass band. It sounds great on the computer through Sibelius. Not so good in the band room. A few reasons why, poor tuning, bad intonation, strange bass playing… all sorts. I’m convinced it can work well. […]
The majority of today was spent celebrating the first birthday of two of our friends’ children. We had a lovely time in good company eating buffet and cake. What more could a Saturday hold?! That took up most of the day to be honest. The morning contained a couple of hours working on Heroes again […]
Work today was good. Had my usual Thursday afternoon for planning, preparation and assessment time (PPA) after a Literacy lesson and a Numeracy lesson in the morning. Actually they had some frustrations attached to them, which a relatively trivial and I’ve pretty much covered before. This afternoon, I worked on my list of jobs that […]
Now, call me silly, but I’m not sure that the acronym RASH is the best for Relationship and Sexual Health Education… which is the now-preferred name for Sex Ed. The rationale behind that is to remove the emphasis from the sex bit – the thing that sends parents into panic mode (and almost understandably so) […]
I’ve only just noticed that – 100 days left in this project and therefore the year. The first 100 posts flew by as well. Today has mostly been spent in front of the laptop working, preparing things for the week ahead. I also realised that I had one more document to make from the data […]
All I’e done today is work. Believe it or not, I feel a little behind in things already after only two weeks of teaching. Things get a little more hectic this week as I have a student teacher working alongside me in their induction to the school – she will be teaching on and off […]
Most of today was spent conducting the Morley And District Concert Band at a charity garden party in aid of Yorkshire Air Ambulance. Plenty of fun was had by all accounts and many nice things were said about the playing – even though a few things went awry in the middle… I think we got […]
I’ve spent far too long tonight working on a puzzle. I will never sleep now. Fridays are always the worst for getting up too… Keeping this very short tonight – I need to get to bed – today was a good day with lots achieved. Looking forward to a rest at the weekend, but doubt […]
I’m not sure whether Sebastian Vettel‘s dominance of Formula One at the moment is good for it or not, but it is leading to dull races. Sure there was a fair amount of overtaking in Italy today, but nobody could possibly challenge for the lead at any stage. He has now won as many Grands […]
Today was another good day at work. I’m slowly ramping up the difficulty of the tasks I’m setting and so far the majority of the class are sticking with me. I had to pull a few people along today though! All will be well. I think the summer holiday hasn’t helped – the majority of […]