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YAHDi

Are you signed in? Would that make a difference? 

Purplelady65

I’m signed in and all I can see is page 153 and arrows to go backwards and forwards. 

jokono

I assume you are reading on a mobile/small screen? Turn it to landscape mode and you should be able to see page 1.

kayannie

jokono said:

I assume you are reading on a mobile/small screen? Turn it to landscape mode and you should be able to see page 1.

Thank you! I didn't know that - just tried & now I can see page 1. KA

Purplelady65

jokono said:

I assume you are reading on a mobile/small screen? Turn it to landscape mode and you should be able to see page 1.

Thank you! I didn’t know that either as I usually read the forum posts on my mobile in portrait. 

GeorgianaCavendish

I'm glad someone else asked the question about page numbers - it has been driving me mad when I use MSE on my phone!  

I hope exam season is treating you well @Kakiste I'm interested in your library plans, do you have an idea of which bookshelves you'll get? I'd like to put some bookshelves in our dining room (either side of a fireplace) to help with noise insulation with next door, and of course more space for books    Ideally I would LOVE floor to ceiling ones (or as close as we can get it) but I think that would be really expensive.

YAHDi

I’ve got floor to (nearly) ceiling bookcases from Ikea, their Billy bookcase range. Very reasonable and can adjust the shelving to different height spaces

Kakiste

My plan was a wall of Ikea billy bookcases in black. - I'm going to go with a half sized one mid way down so I can have a big framed picture in the space. Dark green wall behind the bookcases. 

I had a lovely half term- went wild swimming 3 times with daughter and saw a seal on the last one! About 8 ft away

Crows have continued to love the peanut butter but I've adapted the hangers so that they are now tied to the trees with shoelaces- loved the idea that they might be stealing them to bring presents for everyone else! There's 12 of them that now come into the garden in the afternoon when they see me coming out with any kind of a jar! I was putting the recycling out the other day and they looked incredibly disappointed!

My little cat nearly caught a pigeon the other day- was stalking it through the grass but then she got too excited when she got to about 2 ft away and managed to somehow trip over herself and fall over! 

Exam marking starts tomorrow so I'm in the middle of practice scripts and moderation at the moment. Managed to lock myself out the marking software yesterday evening though so waiting on the helpdesk starting work today so they can let me back in. (I used last year's password as an ingrained response which led to instant shutdown.) 

The second history paper is tomorrow- got a revision lesson today and then a revision session afterschool. I'm not at all confident he'll do well on this paper- his weakest modules and he's clearly done no revision at all over the holiday. I'm far more confident that my year 10s could pass the paper better- but I've done everything I could do, can't force them to take it seriously. 

Kakiste

Second history paper went really really well. Managed to get a 2 hour cramming session in this morning and everything we revised right at the end of the 2 hours was the main essay question so from the student's answers he's done brilliantly on the paper. The essay question was on rebellions against government with the Suffragettes being the example given- he wrote a decent amount on the suffragettes (he reckons 2 pages) and then contrasted them to the Pilgrimage of Grace and the Peasant's revolt (which is a really high level answer if he's included enough detail) He's clearly done much better on this paper today than he did on the world wars paper- which is reassuring

It was nice and sunny this afternoon so we played whole school rounders on the field- lots of hilarious infighting which is a standard hallmark of any behavioural school, which in a way makes the game more entertaining. I scored 2 rounders so a good performance there.  

Now I can rest! Didn't get to sleep until 1.30am last night as I was stressing about the exam. 

Humdinger1

Wonderful to hear how brilliantly you're getting on @Kakiste! Is sounds every bit as good as you dreamed? Onwards and upwards love Humdinger xx