Teachers get it handy!

[johnnycool]

It is done at GCSE and A Level. No doubt .

But many pupils get their GCSEs without it as well
I don't think thats the case with the current 11 plus .

I didn't pay for a tutor for my oldest two and they both passed that GL thing and are at a Grammar school. In fairness the local primary school teacher is very good at the exam prep.

They get the same support from me and their mum now with their homework as they did when preparing for the entrance exam and neither of us are teachers.

You can't be tutoring kids forever so they need to learn a work ethic and find their own level as at some point they'll have to paddle their own canoe.

[ONeill]

Surely CCEA will spend the next few days making some sensible decisions.

[JimStynes]

Surely CCEA will spend the next few days making some sensible decisions.

Whatever decisions are made, they need to let people know ASAP!

[Seaney]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-55491806


Bless you all might have to do some work.

[Seaney]

Always has been a class thing.

So all the kids that did the transfer test that went to St Finians primary school on the Falls rd (when I did it 1981) without a pot to piss in, holes in their shoes, done it, passed (3/4of them) and went to grammar school because it was a class thing?

I doubt you could pass water.

[ONeill]

What will happen to possible swathes of pupils unable to sit transfer or GSCE modules in Jan?

[marty34]

What will happen to possible swathes of pupils unable to sit transfer or GSCE modules in Jan?

In Weir we trust!

[FermGael]

Weirs plan , and I may be wrong here, seems to be to bring the exam classes in next week at secondary.  Leave the rest remote learning. Primary schools shut for a week extra and then back
That means they can obviously do their GCSE modules and grammars will be open for the 11 plus.

The elephant in the room is that we can't put these pupils into bubbles at secondary level and these are more than likely going to be the pupils that are at most risk of carrying the virus ?

[Seaney]

The online teaching I expect to be as pathetic as last lockdown!

[Jim Bob]

Has Weir an aversion to hairbrushes or combs?
His mammy should spray his hair before he goes out of a morning..

[armaghniac]

Has Weir an aversion to hairbrushes or combs?
His mammy should spray his hair before he goes out of a morning..

What you can say about the DUP is that they are not sneaking off to illegal hair salons.

[Milltown Row2]

Has Weir an aversion to hairbrushes or combs?
His mammy should spray his hair before he goes out of a morning..

What you can say about the DUP is that they are not sneaking off to illegal hair salons.

You only have to look at Nasty Nick to see hair salons are not high on the DUP list.

[trailer]

Some mess closing these schools. We haven't heard from ours. No plan for tomorrow. Don't know how I am meant to work from home and school children.
A complete shit show.

[Fear Bun Na Sceilpe]

Some mess closing these schools. We haven't heard from ours. No plan for tomorrow. Don't know how I am meant to work from home and school children.
A complete shit show.

Same. Wife is essential I'm not but required to work so no arrangements made atm

[Seaney]

A lot of teachers are looking at their civil servant colleagues, seeing they are doing f**k all and getting paid and want the same. The children's wellbeing is far from the thought process, unions are a plague on society.