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I've been a bit absent from this site lately and one of the reasons (the best reason ever, actually!) is that we took a little family vacation. Ok, we took a major family vacation. 20 hours in a car on a road trip to the beach. With two toddlers. That's right. 20 hours.
We've been vacationing in Panama City Beach, Florida forever. Liam has actually been there twice before this trip, including the month we spent there at the end of my mat leave. I was living the dream there, folks. It was fantastic. Here he is at 2 months of age, lounging on our balcony....sigh.
But when Aiden came along, I worried that we'd never travel again. I figured that as a single parent I could never manage two babies who then became toddlers on a 20 hour road trip. And I wasn't wrong. What made this work is that my oldest daughter, Emily, came along and it made all the difference. I can't do it alone. Not yet. So kuddos to Em for being the best auntie ever.
I have no real advice here because, let's face it, I mostly just wing it. But I do have my "live and learn" wisdom and I'm sharing it here.....Some of it's obvious, some of it is just what worked for our family.
I took an extra day off work before we left while the boys were still in daycare and was able to finish packing and load the van the night before we left. Suh-weet. Just had to throw in the overnight bag and off we went.
Contrary to all the advice I read cautioning parents not to slide backwards in milestone achievements, I say "let it slide". I haven't potty trained anybody because diapers on road trips are way easier than going the bathroom every hour. (Also, Liam looks at me like I'm crazy when I ask if he wants to try the potty). Liam gave up his "suss' (pacifier) at daycare a few weeks before our trip and he only has it when he sleeps. I gave it to him. For the entire drive. Both ways. My daycare provider is probably not too impressed but I figured since Liam is not in the most pleasant phase of toddler-hood (We're calling him our "threenager")....you do what you can for a bit of peace. I took it away again in Florida and at home....He was fine with this little "suss" blip.
|Our grumpy, soon to be, "threenager"
I also left them in their pyjamas until late the first morning. We landed at McDonald's somewhere in Ohio. As an aside, we NEVER go to restaurants. I've tried a couple of times with a friend or family member to help. The first time Liam announced he was pooping to anyone who would listen. (He wasn't. He was just making friendly conversation.) The second time I was too tired to eat because I was trying to keep them from tossing drinks on the floor along with everything else they could get their hands on. So I was worried about disturbing other people but seriously, McDonald's is so kid friendly, you can't go wrong. And they love it. Because it was a Friday morning the place was full of seniors....the boys were fussed over and adored. They had more attention than they knew what to do with. Wish I'd been half that popular in high school. Or anywhere, really.
I woke the boys and hit the road at 4:30 am because all the Pinterest/bloggy advice said they'll go back to sleep and you could travel in peace. Well, they didn't. They basically stayed awake for 16 hours but for a really short nap. But they were interested and (mostly) cheerful for hours since this was so out of their routine. I never let my kids nap in the car so the fact that they didn't sleep much while travelling shouldn't have surprised me. We travelled 15 hours the first day and neither boy napped longer than 1 hour. Which is crazy because they sleep til 8:30 am every morning and nap 2-3 hours every day. Regardless, they were insanely and unpredictably happy for the first 14 hours. Then we all fell apart and stayed overnight in Cullman, AL. I was trying really hard to make it to my sister's house which is about another hour or so away but we just couldn't do it. This is why I believe in driving hard and fast the first day. The next day we had 5 hours to go and that felt less daunting. It also allowed us to linger at Waffle House, Liam's favorite place in the universe.
Popular advice also says to stop frequently and let the kids run around to burn off energy. Ummm, not my boys. They acted utterly ridiculous and crazed at every rest stop. In Clanton, AL, one toddler followed the beer delivery guy and got stuck in a walk in freezer while the other was behind the counter grabbing for cigarettes. This was after they all but
Let them run loose? Awww, hell no!
I'll be the first to admit that I don't much restrict the number of hours the boys watch tv at home. Don't judge. I do restrict what they watch but I'm single and tired. I can only do so much. Before we left I bought a dual screen DVD player and they watched countless Disney movies, happily in the back seat. I bought 2 new movies that they'd never seen before which helped although, in truth, they're not terribly picky. I bought this one from Best Buy. Love. This. Thing.
I packed a bag of individually packaged, moderately healthy snacks in case we couldn't find anything on the road. Truthfully, they ate a lot of fries and I didn't care that much because it was new and exciting for them to eat out. Or eat fast food. I knew we'd eat better in Florida because we rented a condo and planned to cook most of our meals at home. I also brought sippy cups. Lots and lots of them. Some of it we used and and some of it we didn't but it was nice to know that on the last stretch to Florida, where rest stops and gas stations are sparse, I could have fed them if needed.
Ok. I didn't use this one at all. I made impromptu play trays for the boys and attached them to their car seats with bungie cords. Seriously. I spent weeks browsing Pinterest for ideas for DIY trays. However, I ran out of time and energy and at the last minute I grabbed two thrift store wood trays that I'd been planning to paint and used those. The boys used them once for like 5 minutes. And Liam only colored on the tray. He does what he wants.
Truthfully, they were either way too young or way too happy with movies to make use of all the activities that I packed. Most of those things came in super handy when we ate out in Florida but the in-car trays? Not so much. They're still there because I think the boys will grow into them. And we're planning more road trips in the near future.
Easier said than done for old-school parents (aka grandparents raising grandchildren) like me. I love a good schedule for babies and toddlers because that's what has always worked for this family. When the boys were tiny I structured everything around naps and bedtime. So I was so nervous about disrupting the boys and what could happen. Because sleep is my favorite thing. EVER. But, aside from the first night in the motel where Liam kept giggling and wanting everyone to play with him, the boys slept beautifully, napped well (and even skipped a few) and all was well. AMAZING. I brought playpens for the boys to sleep in and they did just fine. Aiden actually asked to go to bed the first night in the motel, even though we were all roaming around and the lights were on. He just lied right down and drifted off to sleep (love this kid!) For the first time in almost three years, I didn't stick to much of a schedule and it was fine. I couldn't believe it. They napped, they slept well, and they went right back to their routine when they got home. I was so scared! One night, after a late dinner, Aiden fell asleep standing up. In the elevator. He slept til 930 the next morning and life went on.
There you have it....what little wisdom I gained from road tripping with two toddlers. My standards were really low. Basically we just wanted to make it there and back alive.
I can't begin to tell you what this trip meant to me. I have been single forever. FOREVER. When my girls grew up and moved out, I started travelling like crazy. I'd been Hawaii just a month before Liam was born and we were back in Florida when he was two months old. The hardest thing about accepting that I would raise two more babies at this stage in my life was thinking I wouldn't travel again. It might look a little different but it's clear that we can do it with some planning and help. Yay!
Anybody have any must have pieces of wisdom that they want to share for our next road trip in the fall?
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Physics completed a clean sweep in the Graduate School poster session at the 2013 Science and Technology Christmas Conference, with all three winners coming from the department. See the winning posters
PhD speaker prizes went to LEC's Ellen McGowan, whose winning five-minute talk was on "Degassing magma via fractures and foams", and Psychology's Charlotte Field who was runner-up with her talk: "What cues help shape word learning for children with autism?".
Presentations were made on the day for The Dean's Awards for Excellence in PhD studies. The winners for 2013 were:
Simon Vaukins has taken over from Ruth Allen in the role of Graduate School Administrator. Simon will be responsible for the administration and development of the Faculty's Research Development Programme as well as continuing the growth of a vibrant community of postgraduate students.
On 6th January the Science and Technology Business Partnerships and Enterprise Small and Medium Enterprise Strategic Advisory Board met to discuss the proposed new projects for Lancashire Economic Partnership investment funds for business engagement activity.
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Ioannis Tsitsimpelis, a graduate researcher in the Centre for Global Eco-Innovation, was one of three students to win the Dean's Award for Excellence in Postgraduate studies 2013. Ioannis is working with collaborative partner NP Structures researching how to change the way food crops are produced in an effort to make it more sustainable.
The Science Media Centre's Introduction to the News Media session on Friday 21 February in London is specifically geared towards scientists with little or no media experience, particularly those whose subject areas are controversial and of interest to the media, and tend to receive a lot of coverage.
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On Thursday 23 January LEC will host the third of three seminars on the subject of 'Creating a Sustainable Food Future', organised jointly by Dr Rebecca Whittle and LEC PhD student Aislinn Pearson.
The discussions are open to anyone with a broad interest in food and sustainability issues – from Masters and PhD students through to lecturing staff, small businesses and charities. These seminars are based them around a series of working papers released by the World Resources Institute (WRI), which will go on to form the flagship World Resources Report, 'Creating a Sustainable Food Future'.
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With communities still enduring the devastating effects of severe flooding across the UK, Environmental Scientists at Lancaster University have published new research which suggests changes in agricultural land use management have the potential to reduce water run-off from fields.
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Education: Dr. Roner completed his Ph.D. at Miami University (Virology), a post-doctoral position at Duke University Medical Center (Virology, Immunology)and prior to his current position a faculty position at Florida Atlantic University (Virology, Immunology).
Experience: Dr. Roner has extensive experience in the molecular Virology of dsRNA viruses, general virology, immunology, antiviral activity of natural compounds and antiviral and antitumor activity of organotin polymers.
Publications: Since 1985, more than 75 papers published in USA national and international peer-reviewed journals such as PNAS, Virology, Journal of Virology, General Virology, Journal of Inorganic & Organometallic Polymers and Materials, BMC Cancer and Antiviral Research.
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Sister Kathleen Simmons of Hickory Hill Baptist Church invites everyone to assist her in celebrating her 43rd anniversary as a Gospel soloist. On Dec. 8 at 3 p.m. the celebration will begin in the church sanctuary.
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said on Friday that he followed the law in disposing of his official records when he left the Massachusetts governor's office.
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Rosa Parks, revisitedFebruary 07,2013Most of what you think you know about Rosa Parks may well be wrong.
On the verge of the 100th anniversary of her birth this Monday comes a fascinating new book, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, by Jeanne Theoharis, a Brooklyn College professor. It argues that the romanticized, childrens-book story of a meek seamstress with aching feet who just happened into history in a moment of uncalculated resistance is pure mythology.
As Theoharis points out, Rosas family sought to teach her a controlled anger, a survival strategy that balanced compliance with militancy.
Parks was mostly raised by her grandparents. Her grandfather, a follower of Marcus Garvey, often sat vigil on the porch with a rifle in case the Klan came. She sometimes sat with him because, as the book says she put it, I wanted to see him kill a Ku Kluxer.
When she was a child, a young white man taunted her. In turn, she threatened him with a brick. Her grandmother reprimanded her as too high-strung, warning that Rosa would be lynched before the age of 20. Rosa responded, I would be lynched rather than be run over by them.
One of the most troubling and possibly most controversial scenes in the book occurs when Rosa is a young woman working as a domestic. A white man whom she calls Mr. Charlie tries to sexually assault her. Determined to protect herself, she taunts him as she evades him, haranguing him about the white mans inhuman treatment of the Negro.
How I hated all white people, especially him, she continued. I said I would never stoop so low as to have anything to do with him.
Parks added that if he wanted to kill me and rape a dead body, he was welcome but he would have to kill me first.
The author points out that although the story is recorded in Parks own handwriting, it isnt clear whether its completely true, half true or just allegory.
Rosa married Raymond Parks, a civil rights activist who sometimes carried a gun and who impressed her because, she said, he refused to be intimidated by white people.
She spent nearly two decades before the bus incident struggling, organizing and agitating for civil rights, mostly as the secretary of the Montgomery, Ala., branch of the NAACP. But it wasnt until Parks was in her 40s and attended an integrated workshop that she found for the first time in my adult life that this could be a unified society. This didnt mean that she was eager for integration, though. She was later quoted as saying that what people sought was not a matter of close physical contact with whites, but equal opportunity.
And Parks was by no means the first person to perform an act of civil disobedience on a bus. She was very much aware of many of the people whose similar actions had preceded her own, even raising money for some of their defense funds. She also encouraged others to commit these acts of civil disobedience.
Parks explained that I had felt for a long time, that if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so.
That day came on Dec. 1, 1955, when a bus driver asked her to get up so that a white man could sit. She refused. This was not a spur-of-the-moment decision. It was a political calculation informed by a life of activism. As Parks put it, an opportunity was being given to me to do what I had asked of others.
And the idea that she stayed seated because of physical fatigue is pure fiction.
I didnt tell anyone my feet were hurting, the book quotes her as saying. It was just popular, I suppose because they wanted to give some excuse other than the fact that I didnt want to be pushed around.
The book also lays out Parks leading role in the bus boycotts and her decades of activism after the civil rights movement.
When Parks died in 2005, Theoharis says, The Rosa Parks who surfaced in the deluge of public commentary was, in nearly every account, characterized as quiet. Humble, dignified, and soft-spoken, she was not angry and never raised her voice.
Parks, like many other Americans who over the years have angrily agitated for change in this country, had been sanitized and sugarcoated for easy consumption.
As Theoharis writes: Held up as a national heroine but stripped of her lifelong history of activism and anger at American injustice, the Parks who emerged was a self-sacrificing mother figure for a nation who would use her death for a ritual of national redemption.
Fortunately, this book seeks to restore Parks wholeness, even at the risk of stirring unease.
The Rosa Parks in this book is as much Malcolm X as she is Martin Luther King Jr.
Happy Black History Month.
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Honors College Homecoming Coffee & Alumni Panel - October 5, 2013
On Saturday, October 5th, spend your afternoon with Honors College alumni, students, faculty and staff. Enjoy a reception at the Davis Center in the Jost Foundation Room (422) beginning at 3:30 p.m., then hear about post-graduate life from several Honors College alumnae Class of 2008. The panel, moderated by Associate Dean Lisa Schnell, will talk about what they've done in their post-UVM lives and how their experiences in the Honors College helped to shape who they are today. The panel will take place at 4:00 p.m. in the Davis Center, Livak Ballroom (417/419).
Lindsay Christensen Corse, Class of 2008
Originally from Jericho, Vermont, Lindsay entered UVM in 2004 as a Green and Gold scholar and graduated from UVM's Honors College in 2008. During her time at UVM she majored in biology with a minor in Spanish and completed an honors thesis investigating the role of the immune system in preterm labor in addition to spending a semester abroad in Spain. After completing her bachelor's degree she stayed on at the UVM College of Medicine, graduating in 2012.
Lindsay is currently a family medicine resident at Boston Medical Center, an institution formed from the merger of Boston City Hospital and the Boston University Medical Center and the safety-net hospital for Boston's most underserved patients. In addition to taking care of hospitalized patients and delivering babies, Lindsay sees patients at all stages of life in a community health center in East Boston, a predominantly immigrant neighborhood with residents from throughout Central and South America and more recently, Morocco.
Julia Drost, Class of 2008
Julia Drost is the Policy and Advocacy Associate for Amnesty International USA's (AIUSA) women's human rights program in Washington DC. As the principal advocate for AIUSA's women's rights priorities within Congress, the administration, and amongst coalition partners, Julia focuses advocacy efforts and grassroots mobilization on ending gender-based violence in the US and globally, securing women's right to political participation, promoting sexual and reproductive rights, supporting women's and LGBT human rights defenders, and ensuring US action in support of Afghan women's rights and security.
Prior to joining AIUSA in May 2012, Julia served as Legislative Aide and Scheduling Director to U.S. Congressman Peter Welch (D-VT) in Washington. Her issue areas included: women's issues, public lands, arts & humanities, and science. Julia is a native of Brownsville, Vermont and a 2008 graduate of the University of Vermont where she studied political science and English. While at UVM, Julia was a Green & Gold scholar and a member of the Honors College, served on Class Council, wrote for the Cynic, led campus tours for the Admissions Office, interned for Senator Bernie Sanders and VT Business Magazine, studied abroad in Holland, led Outing Club trips and skied as much as possible.
Nathaniel Koloc, Class of 2008
Nathaniel, born and raised in Pittsburgh PA, joined the inaugural HCOL class in the fall of 2004. After studying abroad in Zanzibar, Tanzania and immersing himself in the coursework of CALS' CDAE department, Nathaniel created a self-designed course of study: Global Human Impact Studies. While at UVM, Nathaniel was an active member of the Vermont Cynic business department, the Advocat tour guides, Alternative Spring Break, and the Boulder Society.
Since graduating in 2008, Nathaniel has earned a Masters in Strategic Leadership toward Sustainability from the Blekinge Tekniska Hogskola in Sweden, become a Fellow of the Unreasonable Institute, and co-founded ReWork, a mission-driven recruiting firm dedicated to helping talented professionals find meaningful work. He currently lives in Boulder, CO.
Henry Melcher, Class of 2008
After graduating from UVM Honors College in 2008, Henry joined the Teach for America (TFA) Corps and was placed in Phoenix, AZ. There he taught 7th and 8th grade English Language Arts for two years and became involved in the larger TFA movement. After fulfilling his TFA commitment in Phoenix, he led a service-learning trip for students to Peru, and then transitioned back to the States to work for the Berkshire Outdoor Center as an outdoor challenge leader in Western MA. After three months in the woods, Henry returned home to his mother's apartment to write a novel titled "Abel Newman: Confessions of a Recovering Teach For America Corps Member."
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In 2011 Attorney Rabin earned his Juris Doctor from Boston College School of Law, where he served as an Articles Reviewer on the Intellectual Property and Technology Forum Law Review and on the Semester in Practice clinical program. He is also a semifinalist in the Grimes Moot Court Competition and a runner-up in the regional Saul Lefkowitz Intellectual Property Moot Court Competition. Noah now works as an attorney with Beliveau Law Group, a small law firm in Waltham, Massachustts, where he practices in the firm's civil litigation, estate planning, trust administration, tax, and real estate practice groups.
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St Joseph's RC Infant School
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Primary — Voluntary Aided School
- 101803
- Education phase
- Primary
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Establishment type
- Voluntary Aided School
- Establishment #
- 3412
- OSGB coordinates
- Easting: 532253, Northing: 170945
- GPS coordinates
- Latitude: 51.422, Longitude: -0.099296
- Accepting pupils
- 3—7 years old
- Census date
- Jan. 16, 2014
- Ofsted last inspection
- Feb. 10, 2011
- Diocese
- Archdiocese of Southwark
- Region › Const. › Ward
- London › Croydon North › Upper Norwood
- Area
- Urban > 10k - less sparse
- Free school meals %
- 22.00
Schools nearby
- 0.1 miles Norwood School SE193NY (804 pupils)
- 0.1 miles St Joseph's RC Junior School SE193NU (219 pupils)
- 0.2 miles Virgo Fidelis Preparatory School SE191RS (165 pupils)
- 0.2 miles Virgo Fidelis Convent School SE191RS
- 0.2 miles Priory School SE193QN (83 pupils)
- 0.2 miles Virgo Fidelis Convent Senior School SE191RS (756 pupils)
- 0.3 miles St Luke's Church of England Primary School SE270DZ (202 pupils)
- 0.4 miles Norwood Park School SE279TG
- 0.4 miles Crown Lane Primary School SW163HX (485 pupils)
- 0.4 miles Rockmount Primary School SE193ST (475 pupils)
- 0.4 miles St Joseph's College SE193HL
- 0.4 miles Park Campus SE279NP (153 pupils)
- 0.4 miles Hillcrest Norwood SE191BY
- 0.4 miles Hillcrest SE191BY
- 0.4 miles St Joseph's College SE193HL (1148 pupils)
- 0.4 miles Park Campus SE279NP
- 0.5 miles Kingswood Primary School SE279RD (811 pupils)
- 0.5 miles Downsview Primary and Nursery School SE193XE (523 pupils)
- 0.5 miles South London College SE270TX
- 0.5 miles Silburn Reid SW163JE
- 0.6 miles Westwood Girls' College for Languages and Arts SE193UG
- 0.6 miles Harris Academy Upper Norwood SE193UG (528 pupils)
- 0.7 miles Julian's School SE270JF (495 pupils)
- 0.7 miles Harris Federation SE192BH
Ofsted report: Newer report is now available. Search "101803" on ofsted.gov.uk. latest issued Feb. 10, 2011.
Inspection Report
|Unique Reference Number
|Local Authority
|Inspection number
|Inspection date
|5 February 2008
|Reporting inspector
|Sheena MacDonald HMI
This inspection of the school was carried out under section 5 of the Education Act 2005.
|Type of school
|School category
|Voluntary aided
|Age range of pupils
|Gender of pupils
|Number on roll (school)
|Appropriate authority
|The governing body
|Date of previous school inspection
|23 September 2003
|School address
|Crown Dale
|Upper Norwood
|London SE19 3NX
|Telephone number
|020 8670 2385
|Fax number
|020 8670 0420
|Mrs E Jones
|Ms J Moore
The inspection was carried out by one of Her Majesty's Inspectors. The inspector focused in particular on the progress in mathematics of more able pupils, boys and Black Caribbean pupils; the quality and consistency of the teaching and learning and the clarity of direction provided by school leaders. Evidence was gathered from the school's records, analysis of assessment results, observations of lessons and playtimes, pupils' books, parents' questionnaires, discussions with staff, pupils and governors.
Description of the school
St Joseph's is an average sized Roman Catholic infant school whose pupils increasingly come from a diverse mix of ethnic backgrounds. Three quarters of the pupils represent British ethnic minorities, mostly Black Caribbean and Black African. A much higher than average proportion of pupils has English as an additional language and a small number are at the early stages of learning English. Increasing numbers of pupils come from households with high levels of social need, as exemplified by the high proportion eligible for free school meals. Just above average numbers have learning difficulties and/or disabilities. The majority of these have speech, language and communication difficulties. The governors have had difficulty recruiting a suitable headteacher and there has been an acting headteacher since July 2006 and an interim headteacher since the beginning of this term. The school has achieved healthy schools award, Basic Skills award and the Silver artsmark.
|Grade 1
|Grade 2
|Grade 3
|Grade 4
Overall effectiveness of the school
Grade: 3
St Joseph's is a satisfactory school with some strengths. Since July 2006 the school has been without a substantive headteacher and governors have been unable to make a suitable appointment. The uncertainty arising from this is causing concern to staff, governors and parents. One parent commented that the school was coping well despite the lack of a permanent headteacher and this is certainly the case. The staff and governors have done a good job of maintaining the strong ethos embodied in the school's motto, 'we learn to love, we love to learn.' The school is a happy place where pupils enjoy each other's company and enjoy their learning. This is confirmed by all the parents who returned questionnaires who agreed that their children enjoy school, are safe and well cared for. Pupils' personal development is good. They behave well in and out of lessons and relationships are characterised by mutual respect and warmth. Pupils eagerly take on responsibilities such as class helpers and would happily take on more such opportunities. The uncertainties caused by the lack of settled leadership and some changes in staffing have contributed to a drop in the standards achieved by pupils over the past two years. When children start in the Nursery many have skills and knowledge below national expectations. They make good progress in the Foundation stage so that when they join Year 1, pupils are achieving around and often above national expectations. Progress slows to satisfactory for most pupils in Key Stage 1. The standards achieved by the end of Year 2 are now broadly average and there has been a particular decline in the numbers achieving at the higher levels. Teaching assistants and special needs staff provide good support, in lessons and in small groups, for pupils who have learning difficulties and those who have English as additional language. As a result, these pupils make good progress.
The work in pupils' books and seen in lessons indicates that boys and Black Caribbean pupils are making similar progress to other pupils. The dip in attainment last year for these groups was unusual. The mathematics lessons observed during the inspection and the work in pupils' books indicates that pupils, particularly the more able continue to make slower progress in mathematics than in reading and writing. The school has identified mathematics as an area for improvement and has worked hard to improve the quality of teaching and learning in the subject. Despite this, progress in some lessons is limited because pupils of differing abilities are set the same work. Pupils who need extra help because of language or learning difficulties often cope well with the extra challenge because they benefit from very good support from teaching assistants. More able pupils are not given enough opportunity to extend their learning and therefore do not make as much progress as they are capable of.
Teaching, learning and the curriculum are satisfactory. Teachers and teaching assistants are enthusiastic and work well as a team. The personal, social and health education curriculum is good and makes a strong contribution to pupils' good personal development. Relationships are very positive and pupils come to each lesson wanting to do their best. Teachers make sure pupils have a clear idea about what they will be learning and provide good feedback so that they know how well they are doing. Sometimes lessons are over directed by teachers so that opportunities are missed for pupils to develop their speaking and listening skills, use their initiative and to become more independent in their learning. In whole class sessions, the match of work to pupils' abilities is not always accurate enough so some pupils find it too easy and some find it too hard. The curriculum is well suited to meet the needs of pupils with learning difficulties and those learning English as an additional language, however it does not provide enough interest or challenge to extend more able pupils.
The school places high importance on care, guidance and support and this is evident in its rigorous systems for ensuring pupils' safety. The pastoral care provided for pupils is a strength of the school and pupils feel cared for and confident that they are safe and secure. Parents are overwhelmingly positive about this aspect. One parent commented that since attending the school her child 'has grown socially and in confidence which has been encouraged by her teachers.' The school has good systems to guide and help pupils to be confident about tackling potentially difficult times such as transition into the Nursery and onto the Junior school. Pupils with additional needs, including emotional and behavioural difficulties, are well supported and a good range of intervention and support, including good links with external specialist support, is provided to make sure they do well.
Senior staff and governors have ensured good day to day management but the uncertainty of not knowing when a new headteacher would arrive has resulted in the school 'ticking over' rather than moving forward. As one parent rightly commented, 'although my child is happy, I feel the school is not very dynamic.' As a result, leadership and management are satisfactory. Senior leaders have a sound understanding of the main strengths of the school and areas for improvement. However, the links between the systems for self evaluation, assessments of pupil achievement and improvement planning are not strong enough to ensure clarity of purpose and direction. The school does not accurately monitor or evaluate whether actions taken to improve teaching and learning are having the desired impact on pupil attainment and progress. Governors have appointed an experienced interim headteacher to strengthen leadership in the short term and although she has only been in the school for a few weeks, she is already having a positive impact on the school. It is no small achievement that, despite the recent leadership difficulties, the school is a very positive and happy place.
Effectiveness of the Foundation Stage
Grade: 2
The Nursery provides an exciting, welcoming start to the children's education and this good quality continues into the Reception classes. Careful management of children's induction into the nursery and well-organised routines enable children to settle quickly and start to take full advantage of the interesting and lively learning opportunities. Personal development is good and the children play happily together and develop confidence. The staff team plan the learning well and make good use of the outside and indoor areas. During the inspection there were some examples of good learning links across the different activities. For example children enjoyed the story, 'We're going on a Bear Hunt' in literacy where they were looking for sentences, then while some wrote their own sentences, some acted it out in the well prepared outdoor area and some built caves for the bear using plasticine. Good teaching, including skilful adult intervention to extend the children's learning and language, a stimulating curriculum and high quality additional support for those who need it enables all pupils to make good progress.
What the school should do to improve further
- Raise attainment in mathematics.
- Raise expectations and introduce more challenge in lessons so that all pupils, particularly more able learners, achieve higher standards.
- Ensure pupils have more opportunities in lessons to use their initiative, learn independently and develop their speaking and listening skills.
- Improve the links between assessment, target setting and school improvement planning and sharpen the focus of improvement onto outcomes for pupils.
A small proportion of the schools whose overall effectiveness is judged satisfactory but which have areas of underperformance will receive a monitoring visit by an Ofsted inspector before their next S5 inspection.
Annex A
Inspection judgements
|Key to judgements: grade 1 is outstanding, grade 2 good, grade 3 satisfactory, and grade 4 inadequate
|School Overall
|Overall effectiveness
|How effective, efficient and inclusive is the provision of education, integrated care and any extended services in meeting the needs of learners?
|Effective steps have been taken to promote improvement since the last inspection
|How well does the school work in partnership with others to promote learners' well-being?
|The effectiveness of the Foundation Stage
|The capacity to make any necessary improvements
|Achievement and standards
|How well do learners achieve?
|The standards1 reached by learners
|How well learners make progress, taking account of any significant variations between groups of learners
|How well learners with learning difficulties and disabilities make progress
|1 Grade 1 - Exceptionally and consistently high; Grade 2 - Generally above average with none significantly below average; Grade 3 - Broadly average to below average; Grade 4 - Exceptionally low.
|Personal development and well-being
|How good is the overall personal development and well-being of the learners?
|The extent of learners' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development
|The extent to which learners adopt healthy lifestyles
|The extent to which learners adopt safe practices
|How well learners enjoy their education
|The attendance of learners
|The behaviour of learners
|The extent to which learners make a positive contribution to the community
|How well learners develop workplace and other skills that will contribute to their future economic well-being
|The quality of provision
|How effective are teaching and learning in meeting the full range of the learners' needs?
|How well do the curriculum and other activities meet the range of needs and interests of learners?
|How well are learners cared for, guided and supported?
|Leadership and management
|How effective are leadership and management in raising achievement and supporting all learners?
|How effectively leaders and managers at all levels set clear direction leading to improvement and promote high quality of care and education
|How effectively leaders and managers use challenging targets to raise standards
|The effectiveness of the school's self-evaluation
|How well equality of opportunity is promoted and discrimination tackled so that all learners achieve as well as they can
|How effectively and efficiently resources, including staff, are deployed to achieve value for money
|The extent to which governors and other supervisory boards discharge their responsibilities
|Do procedures for safeguarding learners meet current government requirements?
|Does this school require special measures?
|Does this school require a notice to improve?
Annex B
Text from letter to pupils explaining the findings of the inspection
13 February 2008
Dear Pupils
Inspection of St Joseph's RC Infant School,London,SE19 3NX
Thank you for making me so welcome when I came to visit your school. I could see straight away that your school is a place where people 'learn to love and love to learn' just like it says in your motto.
Your school is giving you a satisfactory education and some things are good. The governors of your school have been trying very hard for a long time to find someone to be your headteacher. Sadly, the right person just has not turned up yet. This means that some of your senior teachers have had to do a lot of extra work and it has not been easy. They have kept the school running smoothly and made sure that it is a happy place. Here are some things I thought were particularly good.
- St Joseph's is a friendly school where you are happy. Your behaviour is good and everyone gets on together. Well done!
- The adults in your school take very good care of you.
- Your school makes sure that those of you who need it get really good extra help.
- You get a great start to your education in the Nursery and Reception classes.
Your teachers know that you do better in reading and writing than you do in numeracy and they want to help you improve your mathematics. For some of you, the work is too easy when everyone in class is doing the same thing. I have asked your teachers to make sure that the work in lessons really makes all of you think hard so that you make better progress. I have also asked them to give you more chances to talk to each other about your work and think up your own ways of tackling problems. The last thing I have asked the school to do is to try to make better links between all the different ways they have of measuring how well the school is doing and make sure that they keep a close eye on how well you are learning.
Thank you again for being so helpful. I do hope that the special person who will be just the right headteacher for your school comes along soon.
Best wishes,
Sheena MacDonald
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Website: ofsted.gov.uk
Any complaints about the inspection or the report should be made following the procedures set out in the guidance 'Complaints about school inspections', which is available from Ofsted's website: ofsted.gov.uk.


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With recent statistics indicating that more students than ever are enrolled in charter schools, there's no end in sight to the ongoing debate over which is more effective in educating our kids: Traditional public or charter schools. A newly released report offers potential talking points for both sides.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy today outlined six broad principles that he says will guide the debate on education reform next year, including "intensive interventions" by the state in troubled school systems and a lighter bureaucratic touch at successful ones.
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In a recent column, I featured an email from a reader named Brian, who stated that he never used coupons because he "felt cheap" when using them.
This column generated a lot of email from coupon fans – and why wouldn't it? If you're reading this column, it wouldn't be much of a stretch to infer that you're interested in saving some money.
While the stigma of using coupons still exists in some circles, the surge in coupon use that arrived in 2008 fueled couponing into the mainstream as a hip, fun and frugal thing to do. But, some people still don't see it that way. They're afraid that someone will see them using that little piece of paper and paying less.
Q: You quote Brian in your today's newspaper column, "I hardly use a coupon. I feel cheap when I do."
I wonder if Brian haggles over the price of a new car, or if he marches into the dealership and plunks down the sticker price for it ¬– or for a new lawn mower or garden tiller? I'm willing to bet that he looks for sales, and that such deals don't make him feel "cheap." I think it is more a case of not wanting to bother finding, organizing and using coupons that individually represent "mere" cents off.
Groceries are small, the prices are small, but added together the amount saved comes to a lot for those on smaller budgets. Couponing takes a little time, commitment and organization, not to mention remembering to plan ahead and take the coupons with you to the store.
All in all, I don't need to use coupons. We are very fortunate in terms of our financial situation. But, it's a great hobby, more than pays for itself and satisfies my desire to be frugal. I think it is silly not to use coupons, and really think that everyone should try it.
A: The reader tackles the economic angle, echoing one of my longtime mottos: You can spend money to save time or you can spend time to save money.
Q: A shopper's decision to use coupons is based on the customer's trade-off between the costs of using coupons (time to collect them, embarrassment to use them for some) and the financial savings obtained. Manufacturers long ago identified that coupons can provide a lower price to a particular segment of consumers – those who value money over their time.
Marketers know that the coupon users are more price-sensitive than non-users. Coupons allow more price-sensitive people to get a discount without granting that same discount to people who don't require it. Less price sensitive people will not spend their time with coupons.
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One of the biggest misconceptions people have about couponing is that it's going to take them far too much time. They know they could be saving money – significant money – with coupons, but they feel overwhelmed with the idea of managing "all those coupons."
The time I spend preparing for my weekly shopping trip usually ranges between 30 and 60 minutes a week. It's not an enormous amount of time to spend on an activity that translates to a significantly lower grocery bill each week.
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POMONA, Calif. – The California Horse Racing Board has approved a set of rules allowing for exchange betting in California, even though the new wager is far from ready to be implemented.
The racing board approved 22 rules pertaining to exchange betting at its monthly meeting on Thursday. The board is expected to discuss the rules again at its monthly meeting in October. The rules would then need a legal review from the state's office of administrative law before becoming final.
Exchange betting is unlikely in the state for several months. The board of directors of the Thoroughbred Owners of California said in June that they would not address the issue until next summer. TOC approval is needed for a Thoroughbred track to conduct exchange betting.
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Saint Andrews, Scotland, UK
On research: "Hatfield MCR provides a wide range of research opportunities to its members. Whether it's providing a grant to help you travel for research or the chance to present a draft paper to your peers, there will be something to suit your needs. Above all, Hatfield MCR offers a warm and supportive community for all researchers."
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North Haven, Connecticut, USA
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Nottingham, England, UK
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Konstanz, Germany
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Ipswich, England, UK
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Course: MA Museum and Artefact Studies
Plano, Texas, USA
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Winning battles but losing the war?
Aug 10, 2009, Vol. 14, No. 44 • By ANN MARLOWE
The Accidental Guerrilla
In the dim red glow of the crowded C130 transport aircraft, my soldiers' faces were guarded and withdrawn. We were minutes away from landing, and all expected a serious firefight before the day was out. Some retched from turbulence or checked their rifles.
And so on, for a few hundred words. Is David Kilcullen about to assault Falluja? No--Connecticut-sized East Timor, which was down to about 200,000 wretched inhabitants at the time the Australian army faced the fearsome challenge of "invading" it. Kilcullen, "one of the few Indonesian linguists in the force," took the "gamble" of walking over to the Indonesian airfield commander and asking for his handover of control. Looking up at the "continuous stream of aircraft stretching all the way to Australia," the commander sagely agreed.
There are too many silly, pretentious, self-regarding moments like this in The Accidental Guerrilla, and they nearly overwhelm Kilcullen's often sensible observations, and undermine our confidence in his mainstream if not particularly original views of best-practice, population-centric counterinsurgency.
Even my eight weeks of embeds with the U.S. Army in Afghanistan make me wonder about writers who spend hundreds of words telling you about their flights on military aircraft--a trope in Kilcullen's account. On an Apache helicopter flight in Iraq, he loosens his safety harness and takes off his helmet and eye protection "to see better" after an IED explodes on the ground below--an example the reader might want to avoid, even when an IED hasn't gone off. But then, Kilcullen thinks body armor is "cowardly."
Another suspect device is his use of transliterated phrases from foreign languages--incredibly unimportant phrases from incredibly unimportant foreign languages such as Tetun: "Mai ho ha'u ("Come with me"), the boy said urgently." That was in 1999. Is Kilcullen really sure this is exactly how the boy phrased it? Why is it important that we know?
Then there's the interlarding of anthro jargon ("a common apical ancestor") and little ticks like "Usama" bin Laden and the inconsistent acknowledgment of the Arabic-Farsi ain (Sa'udi but Arab) which show more interest in giving the impression of erudition than in transliterating sensibly. I won't linger on the photographs, which either depict the attractive author or were taken by him (reminding us why professional photographers are important).
In fairness, when I interviewed David Kilcullen off the record in
He pays lip service to the importance of cultural knowledge, but one of his key arguments--that Iraq represented a "hybrid conflict" and "cannot be fully understood through a classical counterinsurgency lens"--is itself highly ahistorical. Kilcullen seems bent on aggrandizing the (admittedly formidable) difficulties of Iraq compared with prior conflicts, and his vanity makes one suspect that the reason is to point up just how much smarter he is than anyone who previously conducted counterinsurgency campaigns.
But that is not the way to learn from the past. Wasn't Vietnam also several wars in one, featuring "accidental guerrillas . . . foreign fighters . . . and regional nation-state rivalry"? On a simpler level, Algeria also qualifies as a hybrid conflict, with main force, foreign, and guerrilla fighters. In both conflicts, sophisticated counterinsurgency strategies were used.
The French in Algeria may take the prize for bold experimentalism--even walling off the border with Tunisia at great expense, an idea whose parallel iteration was proposed but rejected by American advisers in Vietnam. But the CAPS (Combined Action Platoon) Marines in Vietnam may have practiced the best counterinsurgency of any force in a postwar insurgency. The problem was that there were just 5,000 of them. Neither Kilcullen, nor for that matter General Petraeus's counterinsurgency field manual, FM 3-24, give them their due.
This is part of a broader tendency of contemporary writers on counterinsurgency to suggest that, until late 2006, there was little knowledge of it in the U.S. Army. But it just ain't so. And oddly enough, when Kilcullen does pay his respects to his predecessors, he chooses a mediocrity: the French journalist Bernard Fall, whose work is badly dated.


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: :Ok, I'm feeling very dense. Where are the pci_get_* functions (e.g. :pci_get_devid, pci_get_vendor, ...) defined? A 'grep -r pci_get_devid :/usr/src' shows all the places this is used, but nothing about the :definitions. tnx. : :---chuck It took me HOURS to find those when I first needed to locate them, months ago. The answer is: They are #define'd macros which concactenate the 'pci_get' with '_vendor', and so forth. Look on line 209 of sys/bus/pci/pcivar.h. Note that DragonFly's PCI assessors work someone differently then FreeBSD's. I tried to normalize the functions. It's very confusing either way because there are actually three PCI device layers (or more, even). There's the PCI bus, the PCI slot (which can contain multiple devices), and the PCI device. -Matt Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>


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Custard pie too runny. what to do?
How do you gauge weather a stove top custard is thick enough for a no-bake custard pie such that when it gets sliced( after cooling) it would not be too runny?
i cooked my custard till it coated the back of a spoon and left a trail when stirred but it was still too runny. it definitely was thick, but not slice-able, i would say more suitable for individual tarts
does the custard need to pull away from the sides like a choux pastry? i was worried it would become too firm.
any help greatly appreciated!
btw, what is the difference between a custard and cream pie?
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The campaign runs from November 1, 2014 to December 31, 2014. However, we gratefully accept donations year round and can pro-rate payroll deductions during the year.
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As of February 13, the 2014-15 campaign raised a total of $291,405. The MIT Community Service Fund received $77,070 in donations; the United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley $98,520; and Your favorite local charity program $116,836.
An additional $5,870 was raised through used book fairs on campus, department collection drives, and even department sponsored matching gifts!
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Mixing business with treasure
Posted: August 26, 2014|
HIDDEN treasure is waiting to be discovered at the largest electrical and electronic reuse facility in the South West.
Over one million tonnes of electrical items are thrown away in the UK each year and Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) is the fastest growing waste stream in Europe with more than 60 per cent still going to landfill.
Absolute Recycling at Burrington Industrial Estate has played a key role in addressing the challenge since its formation in 2006.
The company has grown to over 30 employees since then and will increase the workforce by more than 20 per cent during the current financial year, making it the largest WEEE reuse facility in the South West.
This will involve taking on six apprentices and developing an infrastructure for online sales of spare parts via eBay, Gumtree and the company's own e-commerce site.
"One of the best things about the business is people visit the facility and are so impressed by the sheer size of the operation where over 3,000 appliances are collected each month and also the incredible quality and value of the finished product," a spokesperson for Absolute Recycling said.
"Recent comments from customers include: 'It's hard to believe that these items have been thrown away. This place is like walking into John Lewis rather than a discount store' and 'The staff are so knowledgeable. It feels like I've discovered hidden treasure'."
The company work with Plymouth City Council at the main household waste recycling centre based at Chelson Meadow and also collect from local businesses, households and electrical retailers throughout Devon and Cornwall.
One of the other hidden treasures in the business is the people – not only are electrical items given a second chance, but so are people.
Absolute Recycling has worked with Shekinah and the probation service for many years and, despite challenges, a number of the staff at the company have found that being given the opportunity to work there has transformed their lives.
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:I successfully built and installed world with CCVER=gcc3. :Now how do I do the same with XFree86? Surely it's possible, but when :I tried I ran into a couple of strange compile errors (undefined :SIZE_T_MAX in one file, which I fixed by including machine/limits.h, :and undefined XFree86Version in another file, which I inserted :manually). But it didn't build or install any shared libraries, only :the .a libraries. : :Rahul Gcc3 is our testbed compiler. We define __FreeBSD__ for compatibility in gcc2, but we do not define it (on purpose) in gcc3. We only define __DragonFly__. The X build doesn't understand DragonFly-native builds yet. -Matt Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>


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Beach Vacations to Ibiza, Spain
|Cala St. Vincent, Ibiza, Balearic Islands, Spain (Manchan/Digital Vision/Getty)
Ibiza is famous worldwide as the island that never sleeps. This arid Mediterranean speck off the coast of Spain attracts partiers, the jet set, and average vacationers to its shores to drink and dance until dawn to world-famous DJs in its mega-clubs, some which hold thousands of people (like Privilege, the world's largest nightclub). After nursing your hangover on a golden beach, while watching beautiful people saunter by, you'll find that this gorgeous island has a lot more going for it than just a blitz of booze and beats. Ibiza (pronounced ee-beeth-a with a lilting Castilian lisp) is the third largest of the Balearic Islands off southeastern Spain. It's filled with the geographical splendors of steep cliffs, dramatic rock isles (like the mystical Es Vedrà), tucked-away beach coves, and hilly terrain dotted with fig and olive trees. Beyond the tourist enclaves, half of the island (especially the fairly unspoiled northeast) remains covered by thick woods and rural landscapes.
What began as an artists' colony in the 1950s, attracted the hippies of the 1960s, and finally the glitterati of the 1980s, Ibiza is now a democratic place that lures families, million-dollar yachts, and Northern European youth attempting to stay awake for multiple days. It can swelter in July and August and seem as crowded as a sunbathed traffic jam—and local police have closed clubs for drugs and arrested hundreds of intoxicated tourists—but the glamorous allure of the island lives on.
The island's main town of Eivissa holds some fascinating history: An abandoned castle hovers above and winding cobblestone streets harbor old-world Spanish architecture. Its walled Renaissance town is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its cultural value. Sleepy Formentera, the southernmost of the Balearic Islands and much smaller in touristic scale, makes a popular day trip from Ibiza. And for those who like to be active during the day as well, surf spots like Can Pujols and Aguas Blancas, kiteboarding spots like Cala Martina, and undeveloped sunbathing beaches like Playa de Benirras beckon.
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Ron Wolff: FDR spoke about "four essential freedoms" on January 6, 1941, naming 1) freedom of speech and expression; 2) freedom of every person to worship in his own way; 3) freedom from want; and 4) freedom from fear — which he explained was related to a reduction of armaments and the lack of physical aggression against any other country in the world.
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President Obama's Nobel lecture might have showed us that the United States has reached a turning point: either the national security monster we've created is going to eat us alive by bankrupting the country or we're going to have to shift course. We must begin to spin off the 700 or so military bases and installations around the world and focus on building a better life for our own people here at home.