Hannah's School Report

OK well finally got the scanner on the printer working and here are the first results. Hannah's pretty good, could be better (as always for everyone forever), School Report

School Visit and Grove Park Farm Pub Meal

Yesterday I went, via lift from Donna and Josh, to Brockington College to see Hannah’s teachers and get an update on her progress. Met Deb there (she works at the school as does Nathaniel who has a job there as a cleaner which he does after school … 17 years old earning £4,500 pa and also doing “A” Levels!).

Everything was fine; the lowest point was she was advised if she wanted to do Triple Science she would have to work harder and stop coasting (she’s best at science in her class group and finds it too easy)but aside from that she received glowing reports in all her subjects especially Music and Drama. Planned GCSE’S are:

Maths

English x 2

Triple Science …. Biology, Chemistry and Physics

History

Music &

Drama

Afterward we stopped at Grove Farm | Farmhouse Inns' target=_blank>Grove Park Farm Pub for a meal; Hannah had the veggie chilli and we three had the mega carvary meal which proved to be a little too much (excepting Nat who cleared his plate) and next time I think I’ll have the curry. Yet again managed to take absolutely no pictures as I also did when we went there with Deb’s Dad Alf and Shannon just before Xmas.

Nat’s School Trip to The Natural History Museum, London

Hannah Goes To Brockington and Nat Goes to Lutterworth

Hannah today stated school at Brockington College 

Brockington College is a C of E secondary school located on Blaby Rd in Enderby, Leicestershire. It is in the district of Blaby. The school is a specialist Technology College

The school has been rebuilt for £20m under the Building Schools for the Future scheme. Building started in September 2006, and officially opened on November 5, 2007. It has given a big impact on the surrounding areas.

The school council is also a big part of the school.

The school now has a full size Artificial Grass Pitch. The pitch is sponsored by the FA and local sponsors. It was completed at around the end of 2009.

It admits ages 11–14, being a middle school. It has about 800 pupils. It is a technology specialist school.

The Head teacher is Chris Southall.

It is next to Enderby Leisure Centre, and Danemill Primary School. The M1 is 500 metres to the east, and it is near the B582 Enderby Road.

 Alumni Richard Armitage, actor.

Geoff Peters, broadcaster and DJ.

Nathaniel started at Lutterworth College

Lutterworth College is a large 14–19 non-selective Upper School with a fully comprehensive intake, situated in the rural market town of Lutterworth in district of Harborough in the South Leicestershire countryside. A Specialist Technology and Applied Learning College and Church of England Voluntary Controlled school.

There has been a school on the site since 1880. Lutterworth Grammar School grew from a small boys’ grammar eventually into a large mixed comprehensive school in 1967. In 2006, Governors agreed to change the school's name to Lutterworth College. As the school has grown in size (from around 750 in 1967 to over 2000 today) the site has grown, but remains in its original Lutterworth location.
There are around 2100 students on roll, with around 800 of these being in post-16 education (over 70% of Y11 currently stay on post-16). Numbers are projected to be stable (between 2000-2100) for the next five years, according to the Local Authority. There are two main feeder 11–14 high schools (Lutterworth High School and Brockington College) and also a substantial amount from a third school (Thomas Estley Community College). The intake is above national average attainment, mainly rural Leicestershire (but with increasing numbers of Leicester City suburbs children) The full range of ability is welcomed into the college. About 1400 students come to school by school buses.
The last full Ofsted inspection was in November 2008, under the 2009 framework as a pilot inspection. Overall, the college was judged to be good in all aspects with some outstanding features. Part of the moral purpose of the college is to be judged as “outstanding” in all aspects during the next inspection.

Controversy

An article published by the News of the World newspaper under the headline "It's St. Sinians", on April 29, 2007, revealed that for the four years up to 2007, it handed out 345 morning-after pills to girls at the school. This ranked it one of the highest distributors in the country. The article was followed widely, and covered in the following days by newspapers including the Daily Mail and Daily Mirror. However the school defended itself in saying that it runs a "Strictly Confidential" service at the school, which allows students to meet a doctor in school time. The school faced especially strong opposition from pro-life groups, with the UK Life League even publishing the principal's home number and address and compelling people to protest outside it. They have since taken these down, citing that they had moved onto new projects. In the spirit of the school, the students maintained strong support for the head teacher, and the "Strictly Confidential" service.

It later came to light that the "Strictly Confidential" service offered by the school was in fact introduced two years before the current headmaster had begun working there. Furthermore, it was completely controlled by the local doctor's practice, not by the school. Students went on to form a Myspace page dedicated to supporting their headmaster, and hundreds of students signed up. This resulted in the anti-abortion groups' and newspapers' attempts to damage the school's reputation failing, particularly due to widespread local support.

In August 2008, Pat Schofield, an external examinations officer who works at the college, complained about Carol Ann Duffy's poem "Education For Leisure", describing it as "absolutely horrendous" due to its references to knife crime. Duffy responded by writing a poem entitled "Mrs Schofield's GCSE", highlighting the use of violence and stabbings in Shakespeare's plays. In response, Schofield said that she was "gobsmacked" and that she found the poem "a bit weird" as she found much of Duffy's poetry. Many of the school's students resented the decision to remove the poem (having the opinion that it was by far one of the most interesting to examine, and also one of the easiest to compare and contrast with) and felt that Mrs Schofield clearly had only a very basic understanding of poetry. The poem was then replaced.

Notable alumni

• Kid Acne, artist and musician
  
• Richard Armitage, actor
  
• Stephen Biesty, author
  
• Nick Cook, cricketer
  
• Kristyna Myles, musician
  
• Richard Neale, conservative MP
  
• Geoff Peters, broadcaster and DJ
  
• Anthony Thistlethwaite, musician
  
• John_Ashton_(guitarist), musician
  
• Alex Thomas, musician
  
• John_Cooper_(athlete), athlete
  
• Jonnie_Irwin, television presenter
  
• Dawn Bauling, poet, Publisher, Indigo Dreams Publishing Ltd

Saturday 13 November 2010 Building lego Robots at School

Today I went to robot building and built robots and stuff. Later, I went to Jacobs for a sleep over which was to celebrate his 13th birthday last Monday. First of we went on black ops and stayed on it for the rest of the night we videoed  several of the games and added   commentary

I stayed up till 06:30 the following day.

Miscellaneous Rugby Photos

Here's a selection of Rugby Photos that I'm not sure we've already uploaded. Some are Vipers games and some are School matches.

Friday 19 march. Nat's Third Cookery Lesson

Today was my third lesson and first practical in/of cocking we made pizza toast with cheese and pepper and mushrooms and onion and even some herbs this is after having a bacon bap in breakfast club.Later that day i caught the bus home were I then watched some of the Cleveland show followed by going round Zacs house and playing halo online vs. a bunch of noobs why noobs you say well that because in captor the flag i got a mongoose and drove it to there bas and walked home with the flag not once but 43 times and reclaimed ours twice
so alright the I sat down watched the forgotten Spartans

and then I wrote this
By Nat.

TUESDAY 3 NOV NATS 1ST BLOG

this morning when i got up it was raining cats and Montys so I secretly convinced mum to let me go in the car.

At school I got 15 merits - 2 in re and 13 in music!!!!!!!!!

I have been transfered to the top science set from my form set

today in science we're looking at acids.

In French i got a 3c in speaking

damnation there was no curry noooooooooooooooooooooo

so instead I had the Brockington brunch - bacon, scrambled eggs, tomatoes, toast mmmmmmmm

but I didn't have enough money so I paid on credit i now owe 88p.

I came home on the bus with Brandon. we talked about my new land raider crusader which I got 3 days ago and it's the most powerful and expensive thing in my army!!!

World Book Day - Hannah

It is world book day and we can dress up as a literary character . I am going as Carmen.

After School Report:

 When we went to the studio to buy books I had no money, but, Hollie had £2.00 leftover which shegave me.

So I bought 2 books, one on ancient Rome and the other was a double story book that I bought for Nat. 

Miss Gordon, the P.G.C.E. trainee teacher thought my costume was lovely, she also told Mummy and Daddy, later on, about how good I was in class.