Thorpe-le-Saint

5-0 the other night would say otherwise.

I thought the Royals/heir apparent weren't allowed? Or is that just the Queen?

Just heard that they've attacked Prince Charles' car? Even I think that's too much, he can't even vote FFS!

You're on form today love, although it did take you 5 minutes. That is disappointing.

As long as you're alright with your protected pension/wage/career who gives a **** about the rest of them right?

It's been that way since 1829.

Just seen the MET charge the protesters...that'll appease them, good move!

I reckon this will be the end of universities such as Solent, Bedfordshire, De Montfort etc. Unless they offer 'cut price' degrees, people will opt for those universities who have better standings within academia or simply not bother because I can't see people willing to fork out thousands and thousands of pounds to study some mickey mouse degree at a mickey mouse uni.

Here is the link to the video: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/southampton/9270086.stm

Explain.

Did you even read the OP?

Why would he want Lambert when they have Andy Carroll?

I assume you left out the winky face?

Bar Riza has been shut for at least the last two years and I imagine Jongeleurs (sp?) has been shut for the same period of time. Again, I can't confirm that Jongeleurs, that was held above Bar Riza, is in itself shut yet you would assume it is.

I thought it shut down as it was above Bar Riza?

I saw in the Newsagents today the Express are on their way to winning another 'crusade' (the actual wording they use!) today in getting day light savings abolished. Ohhh that's a big concern of mine that one! Morons.

Please see my post number #6

Sorry dune, not in a biting mood today. I know with your HND you feel superior to me and my Masters, but that is O.K, I know I'm right but I'll let you win.

Then you would get the entire school black listed and subject to inspection: You would get a zero and be unable to enter into ANY examination. HTH. Schools and exam boards have resources to detect plagarism.

Spot on. We shouldn't need 'free schools' or academies to be be able to rid education of this needless interference by government. Give us broad parameters and let us do what it is we do best.

I can't comment on your daughter's schools policy obviously as they differ from establishment to establishment but I'll explain ours and hopefully it might answer your question: Firstly, as I imagine many people hold this myth to be correct: it's not there to make our lives easier - in fact it makes it harder as we have to bloody find time to mark it. My school's policy is to set a 'reasonable' homework of 30 mins per subject (with a maximum of an hour). Now, our homework is set on specific days and at KS3 (years 7-9) you only set it once a week, or twice if you're a core subject (English, Maths and Science). Therefore on one specfic day a child should have no more than 90 mins of homework, definatly no more than two hours. At KS4 (years 10-11) it changes to two a week and three a week. Our homework policy is as such so that the pupils receive an extra years secondary education on top of the five they will do. Is this the normal amount of homework your child's school sets for a year 7 pupil or has just been this week that is have been so intensive? I would state that 16 peices is far too much for an eleven year old no matter how talented. I would assume that this week the teachers have set work because they haven't been in to have their lessons? In my honest opinion, I cannot see homework lasting in its current form much longer: Pupils, especially by the time they're 13/14 simply can't be arsed and will either hand you in something that took 10 mins to complete or just wont bother (and no amount of detentions are going to stop that). Furthermore, we are finding it increasingly difficult to keep up with the 'marking timetables' we are given by the schools: for example my school expect books to be marked every fortnight (that's fine and 'do-able) but then when you add 220 peices of homework (and some top set Yr.11s will happily write three A4 sides worth) on top of this and consider that we then have to give feedback on each peice, plan our lessons for the week, create the resources that we need to teach them, attend meetings etc etc etc the current system will simply not stand up for much longer. I imagine by 2020, homework will either be redundant for KS3 or it will all be done via electronically. I hope this answers your question a bit

I can't believe I'm going to say this, but the man has a point (despite the awful journalism)! There is a time and place for being 'matey' - I think I was about 16 before I stopped seeing the olds as 'scary'. I was about to also get on my high horse about these marriage lessons (or whatever they are) being introduced in schools and was about to launch into a tirade about 'how the curriculum and teaching time itself in secondary schools is already over-stretched' and 'where are we going to find the time to fit this in along side bloody citizenship lessons, sex education, PSHE?' etc. If they are to be put in place in Primarys however then that is a different matter: I'm not saying that teaching time in primarys isn't stretched, but they wouldn't have to try and squeeze it in alongside telling children to make sure they rubber up when they get older unless they want a STI. No doubt though it will be another government initiative (note, this was the case at points under Labour as well) that will be forced through with gusto, OFSTED will put empahsis on it but by 2012 it will be forgotton about and scrapped.

You sound like you're suprised.

I don't know why we bother if I'm honest. We were never really in with a shout from day one. It was obvious that Blatter was setting us up for defeat with his whole arse kissing routine today.

The annoying thing is that is without doubt the best we could have done, and it still wasn't enough. Would it be so wrong if we wen't down the envelope route once in a while?