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Buggery.

They've accepted a bid and according to Fry he's already turned down Norwich and QPR.

I'll be taking my nipper, staying about 40km away and going for Fri-Sun. If I just get general entrance tickets and took our own seats etc where would be the best place to watch it from. We'd be heading in on the E42.

I'm very surprised that the bins haven't been outsourced. Must be one of the few places in the UK.

Whilst the press will make a big song and dance about any school that stays open due to "parents" I'm willing to bet good money that any are in affluent areas. None in my LEA, as of 17.00 this evening, were taking advantage of Gove's kind offer, judging it not worth the risk.

Anyone here done it? Require some advice regarding general entrance tickets.

Then there is no point in having them.

Jammy f**kers. I'll be having a word with our Principle and suggest paintballing.

Bloody hell, that's nuts.

Bloody hell, even my LEA doesn't go that far. Yet.

Each different organisation. At one stage I taught in two different LEA's and had to have enhanced CRBs for both, which in the case of mine always raises eyebrows when they land on HRs desk. I had been asked to go and do some work at one of the new academies but they wanted my team to have a CRB just for them despite us having the LEA CRB which had been good enough before their opt out!

Schools publish them but they are all subject to change. Extra days can be added by the LEA / Dept Ed as is happening with my kids next week.

It often depends on what TT it is. Where I'm based they try to do cluster TT but sometimes it's not possible.

Not strictly true. My kids school have been allocated 2 extra days (to do with going from a 2 class intake to 3 classes) which are next Thursday/Friday and we were given 6 weeks notice. I'm taking 2 days unpaid leave to look after them as my teaching load is less than my wife's at the moment.

If only the whole wide world was like you. aintforever for God!

I agree but to the Daily Mail brigade they're perks.

Cutting. Really, it was. Cutting.

Yet some think taking away the perks wouldn't impact recruitment in areas that we are desperately short of now. As a nation we cannot continue to fail to recruit maths and science graduates.

Oooooooo. Get her waving her willy around as if it's going to impress someone on the internet.

Cut or bring in line with skimmers?

I never begrudge a member of the forces a decent pension, especially as I transferred mine into my apparently big, fat, bloated, gold plated, outrageous teachers pension.

Bloody hell, that's harsh.

Still, I've 13 weeks off to look forward to whilst you're beavering away. Stick at it old chap, you've my salary to pay.

They may cancel your leave, we've all be through that, but they do not take leave days off you, you still accrue them.

Would you complain if they took a week of your holiday to do training? Course you would. God knows you drip enough about your job now. What you fail to grasp is that 99.9% of teachers would be quite happy to never have another Baker Day as the "training" is usually gash but much of it, at least where I'm based, is mandatory. I exclude my wife from this as she loves all training.