{"id":20157,"date":"2013-06-02T22:15:11","date_gmt":"2013-06-02T22:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=20157"},"modified":"2013-06-02T22:15:11","modified_gmt":"2013-06-02T22:15:11","slug":"day-153-the-half-term-has-ended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2013\/06\/02\/day-153-the-half-term-has-ended\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 153: The Half Term Has Ended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The final few weeks of term are here. It has been an interesting year so far. I&#8217;ve done huge amounts in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"School\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/School\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">school<\/a> &#8211; it&#8217;s almost hard to remember everything. But so far it&#8217;s all been based around maths, twitter and ICT; my roles have developed a lot in those three areas.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Mathematics\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mathematics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Maths<\/a> has seen me introduce a new calculation policy, train teaching staff, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Teaching assistant\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Teaching_assistant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">teaching assistants<\/a>, and anyone who&#8217;ll listen in various parts of it and generally being regarded as a bit of a geek by all involved. Not that I mind that in any way.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Twitter<\/a> is slowly becoming useful in school &#8211; the more followers we get, the better. It&#8217;s still in its early days as not a large number of parents use it. More schools do around us, so it&#8217;s been a useful communication tool in that sense. More work is needed.<\/p>\n<p>ICT has seen me be a communicator between our technicians and the rest of the staff. The school&#8217;s website goes from strength to strength, getting lots of interest from many parents and other schools. I&#8217;m very proud of how that has gone.<\/p>\n<p>My biggest issue is time. All these three things demand a lot of me. Nothing gets done quickly on any of those things. The website is much easier to update tan before, but it&#8217;s still all down to me, and mostly in my own time too. But again, as a communication tool, it&#8217;s become incredibly valuable.<\/p>\n<p>Seven and a bit weeks still to go though and much will happen in this time. I must say, I&#8217;m quite looking forward to getting back into it again, although things &#8211; as always, it seems &#8211; are going to change once more&#8230; let&#8217;s see how tomorrow goes!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?w=1165\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final few weeks of term are here. It has been an interesting year so far. I&#8217;ve done huge amounts in school &#8211; it&#8217;s almost hard to remember everything. But so far it&#8217;s all been based around maths, twitter and ICT; my roles have developed a lot in those three areas. 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