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[Bar Wench]

Normally it involves training of some description. Health and safety, foreign languages etc.

[GROWLER]

Do you want the recipe, like?

Only if I can fry one up on me propane outdoor cooker in the woods like.

[Nick]

Normally it involves training of some description. Health and safety, foreign languages etc.

Foreign languages? In a day? 

[Snoopy]

All right ~ I'll play the game ~ It is all about continual professional development ~ usually further in-school traning sessions that are most often used to introduce the latest bollox ideas and instructions from the LEA or Government ~ as if earning your living the way you do you didn't know that.

[Nick]

I genuinely do not know what The Boy's teachers do on INSET days. I have suggested to the Head that he tells us.

[Bar Wench]

All right ~ I'll play the game ~ It is all about continual professional development ~ usually further in-school traning sessions that are most often used to introduce the latest bollox ideas and instructions from the LEA or Government ~ as if earning your living the way you do you didn't know that.

Thing is most teachers don't want them either. But the schools are required to have x amount per year.

[Nick]

So called Baker Days

Someone merged the thread 

[Snoopy]

When Kenneth Baker was Education Sec. they certainly were called Baker Days

[Nick]

I shouted at him once. In a traffic jam. He closed his car window 

[Snoopy]

Something with rice I think

[Nick]

No, he had Brylcreem on his hair

[Snoopy]

 

[Nick]

You got your threads muddled 

[Snoopy]

  I was also shouting down the phone at some arse from the Pensions Service whilst reading three threads and typing replies one handed.

[Nick]

What were you doing with your other hand