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Apparently if you want to reach an audience with your blogs you need to stick to a theme. I am no idea who reads this blog if anyone at all .. so it is a little random.
This post is a fine example of Ali going a great job at work.
A couple weeks ago just before our half term, there was a ruckus in the Biology staff room. It had been deemed by the upper echelons of management that giving year 11 students (15/16 year olds) broad beans to grow was ‘too primary school’ and so they had stopped doing it. One of the new teachers didnt’ knwo abotu this and had given his class the beans to grow. Ali’s class had found out and were desperate to have some of thier own. So in the course of ‘fairness’ not beliveing it would really take off, Ali issued the class with beans. So also set up a forum on the schools Virtual Learning Environment. Interestingly named Moodle. 1/4 of the class has gone on and posted an update or even a picture of their bean. Many intersting stories, this was by far my favourite.
She set up her bean as instructed, but it was taking a long time to open a d grow, so she thought she would help it along. But a bit snapped off, so she found a couple rubber bands and fixed it back together, put it back in the glass and it continued to grow!! jokes …
maybe broad beans will be back on the agenda next year!
Well it has been a while since I posted, mostly becuase my allocated posting time has been spent redeveloping the blog.
Ali got back to school and soon as she started, she was off on a biology field trip. Somewehre in north-ish Wales at a very well equipped, well run school research site.
Dan is still enjoying school, we aren’t too sure what he gets up to most days, he isn’t very keen to talk about it when he gets home. The most we get is ” I had fruit at break time” or ” we looked at shapes” any more info is sparce!
I had had a somewhat sureal month. Post Soul Survivor has been an intersting time. My job has changed quite a bit. I am no longer responsible fro 13 – 25’s, the 18+ group connect has been moved from under me. The process was quite painful adn frustrating and led to near resignation, near depression. Fortunately God is totally amazing and despite some bad processing some great thigns have come of it. For starters, my need to recognise my focus has been too much on who I am in my job rather than who I am in Christ. Explained why i got frustrated when my job changed without me knowing it was going to. Good thing to be able to re-focus ones life aiming more at God!!
So that left me with half a job that I have spent a coupel years training someone else to do! Not so great for my career path or motivation, give the above need for re-focussing. so after a few hard conversations, I have picked up a coupel other interesting assignments. As well as helping Steve run WYnet, I shall be heading a project team (that i first need to recruit) to re-design and launch the Wycliffe UK prayer strategy. I’ve also been asked to help the Executive Director do some research and develop a strategy to recruit some new trustees who are under 40.
Quite exciting, quite scarey all at the same time. Would appriciate any prayers you can offer!!
As you know Ali is a secondary science teacher and an hour ago there was this huge laugh from the office where she was marking year 7 books. She was marking a section on the human waste system.. this is what one pupil wrote.
“We need fibre in our diet because it helps us go to the loo by helping to push the toilet though”
Seriously, have you ever tried to push a toilet though .. i wonder if that is anything like child birth!
As if that wasn’t enough, those last 3 words were in fact her second attempt writen in Biro on top of some white out! who knows what was there before!
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