Where I’d like to be ….. a project and a place to get away from it all.

I have internal photos. I will get them up within the next week. Bear with me!!

I am wrecked …. we have 12 policies done! Either newly completed or revised.

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Short answer to a long explanation ….. ‘cos Microsoft Education Ireland shafted me, my pupils and my school!

I genuinely want to advance I.T. in my school. I don’t want to do the usual stuff with the pupils.

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I hate people who don’t approve my comment when I’ve taken the time to comment on their blog!

I wouldn’t mind if I had blasted them out of it but I hadn’t!

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I was listening to ‘Morning Ireland’ on Radio One on my way to work this morning.

I heard Pascal Sheehy, R.T.E.’s Southern Reporter, talking about the terrible burning of a 13 year old boy in Cork.

The boy and his friends had been inhaling petrol vapours from plastic bottles.

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Amazing how many different expressions can be made up using the word shit!

Here goes:

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An audit by the teachers’ friend, Mary Hanafin, has found that a lot of secondary schools are using selective/restrictive policies to exclude special needs, immigrant children and Traveller children.

Provision for special needs pupils, immigrant children and Traveller children is largely left to vocational and community schools.

Other schools are opting out.

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Bertie will lose out on his Taoiseach’s salary increase of €38,178 when he leaves office next month.

Poor old Bertie will see his annual salary drop by €85,000.

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I got this from an oral language game we have in school.

Given a list of categories, choose one item for each.

In addition a person to accompany you must be chosen and 3 other items.

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Have a glass on me Grannymar!

Congrats again on the blog win!

(Grannymar won the Irish Blog Awards – Best Personal Blog for 2008. She got her award yesterday)