As The Workhouse Approaches....How To Do Everything To Avoid It, the Old Style Way

mardatha

Heavy rain here and I am sending it down to you lot. After all, there is a drought on !
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cat_smith

mardatha wrote: »

Heavy rain here and I am sending it down to you lot. After all, there is a drought on !
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Not here there isn't!:p I need the big yellow ball. Fast. Can't believe that you have tomatoes already - I have about 1 flower:eek:

mama67

redlady_1 wrote: »

I dropped Latin as soon as I possibly could. I was pants at any form of languages. Those bloody tenses got me every time

we had some funny language teachers as well though didn't we Redlady; I did Latin to GCE 'o' level along with Needlework, we couldn't do both it and Cookery and my mum didn't agree with the way we were taught some things so suggested I carried on as at home, as was in front of the learning, for my first ever lesson at grammar school it was a packet blancmange, then we did scrambled egg on bread not toast:eek:

wasn't there a boy Quintus and a Caecilius in the Latin books
the only phrase I remember is "Caecilius est in atria" lol

mama67

r.a.i.n.b.o.w wrote: »

There were no grammar or comps when I was at secondary school, they were abolished a few years before (along with the 11 plus). You had local authority schools (free) or private schools (fees per term).

where I live we still have the 11 plus and a separate grammar school

redlady_1

mama67 wrote: »

we had some funny language teachers as well though didn't we Redlady; I did Latin to GCE 'o' level along with Needlework, we couldn't do both it and Cookery and my mum didn't agree with the way we were taught some things so suggested I carried on as at home, as was in front of the learning, for my first ever lesson at grammar school it was a packet blancmange, then we did scrambled egg on bread not toast:eek:

wasn't there a boy Quintus and a Caecilius in the Latin books
the only phrase I remember is "Caecilius est in atria" lol

Mrs Ramsay taught latin if I remember. Cant remember the needlework but she taught cookery too. Smith rings a bell. Packet blancmange eh? That sounds right good! :rotfl:I remember Mrs Smith who taught me German. Her mother used to baby sit me (yes, she was still alive! ) She was barking. And I think Mrs Brie or something who taught French! I was deemed so bad at French I was only allowed to sit a CSE in it....oh the shame!! :rotfl::rotfl:

Pink.

mama67 wrote: »

where I live we still have the 11 plus and a separate grammar school

We have a similar system. Where I live the 11+ is now referred to as transfer tests and children can opt to sit the tests or not. They sit three tests in an unfamiliar setting and are marked on the best two scores. Having just been through it for the third time, it has been the most stressful year of my life, although my son coped with it well, and thankfully like his brother and sister secured a grammar school place. I am so glad that we won't have to go through it again and send hugs to anyone going through the process this coming year.

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mama67

redlady_1 wrote: »

I am another Grammar school girlie but as a child of a single parent it wasnt fun. School did little to encourage me to reach for the skies and my mum just wanted me to work in an office rather than the land, which is what she did. But I have to praise Mr Jarvis for showing patience and giving me time as I now have a love of maths. He was very influential over me.

I am trying to remember the name of the lady who taught sewing. Miss someone and she also taught home economics.

I had a husband but traded him in for FK and am currently retrading jobwise.

there was Miss Kroboc who became Mirs Smith and Mrs (older lady with glasses)

Mr Jarvis was brilliant for maths

anguk

Pink-winged wrote: »

We have a similar system. Where I live the 11+ is now referred to as transfer tests and children can opt to sit the tests or not. They sit three tests in an unfamiliar setting and are marked on the best two scores. Having just been through it for the third time, it has been the most stressful year of my life, although my son coped with it well, and thankfully like his brother and sister secured a grammar school place. I am so glad that we won't have to go through it again and send hugs to anyone going through the process this coming year.

Pink

After reading through other people's experiences I'm so pleased we've never had to go through that. The 11 plus had been abolished in our area by the time I reached that age and my kids haven't had to go through it either. Up here you go to your catchment primary school then straight on to the catchment secondary.

It was stressful enough going through GCSEs with my kids and DD has just finished her AS exams (the ones with all the errors :mad: )so I dread to think what it would have been like doing such stressful exams and tests at 10 or 11yr old.

Pink.

anguk wrote: »

After reading through other people's experiences I'm so pleased we've never had to go through that. The 11 plus had been abolished in our area by the time I reached that age and my kids haven't had to go through it either. Up here you go to your catchment primary school then straight on to the catchment secondary.

It was stressful enough going through GCSEs with my kids and DD has just finished her AS exams (the ones with all the errors :mad: )so I dread to think what it would have been like doing such stressful exams and tests at 10 or 11yr old.

I can so empathise with you, our other son is in the middle of AS exams at the moment. Really not a fun year in our house! Just try to remember that it comes to an end....Our daughter graduates this year and is coming home in two weeks. I can't wait! She's grown up so much over the last three years and is a fantastic girl that I couldn't be more proud of.

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LittleBrownFrog

I scrape the flour off the worktop into a container in the freezer & use it if I need to make seasoned flour for frying something, or add it when I make flatbread or pitta. Sometimes I just chuck it in with my breadcrumb box & shake it up & use it in falafel.