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Sounds like you have had a fun few days. Mine have been ok actually. THe damn builders are still here and they are doing my head in. Theres so much noise. They keep drilling. The whole kitchens gone so i cant find anything to eat. The sooner it gets finished the better, is all i can say but they not started on the roof yet so i reckon it will be a while.Quote:
Originally Posted by di marco
Just got back off of the worst trip ever. Got left on the coach, the driver went the wrong way and we nearly crashed on the way there :lol:
this evening all my mates have gone to the nightclub on campus but i had to go to see this stupid show for my course so i couldnt go with them! :( so now im here all by myself while theyre out having fun, and the show was rubbish, one of the most dreadful things ive ever seen, so im not happy about missing a night out! :angry:
though today i got an email through from this agency for film and tv extras. its an agency just for students and they can get you work on all different types of film and tv programmes and they pay between £70 and £150 a day! they want people from my area to be in this new film about henry VIII and its like a big film, apparently its got natalie portman, scarlett johannsen (sp?) and some guy from the hulk (eric someone?) in it. so ive signed up with them, it sounds really exciting, if they think you look the part then you get in! and not just this film, its for anything else they might need you for so thats quite good :D also today i signed up to do this questionnaire tomorrow and i get £2 for taking part lol!
well i have just been woken up this morning to a severe thunderstorm with thunder and lightening and the road was flooded for a while, hope the day improves and we dont get any more! i hate thunderstorms!
Just been to school and got moaned at today, so I'm not very happy. The weather isn't any good either. A night of revision and homework ahead for me as I have two science modules coming up soon and one of my teachers is absolutely useless.
Okay, If you don't want to read a lengthy rant, don't scroll down.
In English we have to write up our original writing coursework by hand, in the lessons. I hate writing by hand, it hurts and I'm a slow writer, so I'm rushing as we have to have it done in 2 lessons time. It's all part of the controlled coursework, which is like the worst idea ever. I'm making enough mistakes and having to cross them out as tippex is not allowed, so it's a mess, and then there is the state of my writing as I have to write as quickly as possible. But the class will not shut up and they know that handwriting is my weakness. So they know I've been bullied and then think "Oh, lets make a load of noise so Kim can't work, that's like the ultimate way to make her suffer because she actually cares what she gets in her GCSEs." So I'm starting again and again, but I don't have time to do that any more and it is a right mess, I've got arrows all over the place and it looks like a draft. So the examiners won't be impressed by my handwriting, so I'll get marked down. The thought of the whole controlled coursework thing makes me want to throw up, and I feel like crying the whole time. I want to take English for A level, so it's not like I can afford any mistakes.
Science is only going to be worse, as there is no draft.
I'm fed up with the bullying, talking behind my back and being pushed around like a shopping trolley. I was going to Media today and these boys that I don't know the names of were treating me like I was a buffalo in the American west or something, and the lot of them bowled into me at once and nearly had me flying down a whole flight of stairs backwards, and I would have easily broken my back, had I of fallen. I was that close. And one of them tried to walk off with my bag.
I hate my tutor. They changed at the beginning of the year and I haven't really got on with him. We were doing an activity about assertiveness, and had a sheet to do. We had to fill in in accordance with the options, what we thought we were in a load of categories. There was also a column for us to get someone to fill it in, and this girl that has in the past non stop bullied me for a year and a half, went up to the tutor and said that she had offered to do mine, as my only friend in the group was absent. A complete load of rubbish. So he came up to me and asked why I didn't let her do it. So I said that I didn't care what anyone in the room at the time thought, because I've been bullied so much. If he actually bothered to ask the old tutor he would know about it. Instead he had a go at me saying that I was being rude. Also, his room is upstairs and he wouldn't swap rooms, so I have to register in an office as I can't go up and down the stairs all the time for morning registration.
The whole controlled coursework is just pathetic. So what if people cheat? The majority of people that cheat end up with a lower grade through cheating anyway, because essays etc from the internet are rubbish. I just can't cope with it, I feel bad enough about myself with all the bullying anyway, and it's making it 10 times worse. I wouldn't go and talk to my tutor if I was paid to, and I'd give anything to be in year 11 now so that I didn't have to do controlled coursework in some subjects.
Sorry to go on.
Sounds like youve had a bit of a pants day. What year are you in 11 or 10? I think the whole controlled coursework thing i thought the point was that you had to be quiet when you did it. It was at my school. can you not ask you teacher to go in at a break when its quiet and ask them to control it then and explain that you struggle with your handwriting. just do you best and ignore what the bullies say there usually the one that end up in a council house with a kid when your out with people like yourself are wanting to do well in life.
About your tuter situation when i was at school i hated mine with a vengence and i just went to someone higher like the head of Year of Deputy or Head of Keystage. Try to find a memeber of staff you can trust and see if they can help you. I know its a lot harder and you probably dont think this is much help as i never met you so if you think that then just ignore what i say, Its just my opinion.
Just try and get your head down and the time will fly by.
Is all coursework controlled and if it is, since when has this been the rule??
It's just the writing up of English and all of the Science. Everything will be controlled or exam by 2009. This is especially bad for me as I want to do an English A level and English and Science are two out of the three subjects that my highest prediction (that I know of), is in.Quote:
Originally Posted by cornetgal
I want to talk to my old tutor as I got on well with her for all of the three years that she was my tutor. The deputy head told me she didn't have a new tutor group, but she does.
I'm in year 10 but none of the coursework is controlled for the current year 11.
i was going to say it was never controlled when i did, i think its a stupid idea as well.
I dont think that colleges will stop you doing English A Level if thats what you want to do. Just do your best im sure your going to pass them all. I mean the coursework marks for Handwriting etc are minute. They wont really have much affect on your grade.
I like it all that perfect though that the few marks for handwriting mean a lot to me. Also, I missed a grade C in a mock by 1 mark so it was annoying, especially if I was actually to miss a certain grade on coursework by 1 or a few marks.