Just Another Manic Monday

Been remiss in my Blogs over the weekend, primarily because of the great weather we have been having. Not so nice today, and we've got to take advantage of the rays while we can. Looks like its not going to last though, but we'll see.

Garden is beginning to look good, I think. Always does when its tidied up and dug 'n things. Its great to wake up in the morning to the birds singing. Even better at night when the sun goes down. They go nuts for hours chatting each other up. Haven't seen any foxes this year, but they are about. I hear the wean's rabbits thumping like crazy at night as they try to put Mr Fox off a potential dinner. It might even be his Mrs. as there was a pair of them here last year at this time.

We got a brilliant report in work for the Integrative Assessment part of our HNC Social Science course. The best in Scotland by far we were told. That's good to know! Inspections of any kind are worrying. A bit like being scrutinised by the Educational Stasi. But when I think about it we should never really be that concerned. In my department none of my colleagues have been teaching for less than ten years. More than a majority have been at it for around 25 years each. We have hundreds of years experience teaching what we do. Experience makes success.

This I saw this afternoon when my HNC 1a group came in to sit their final psychology assessment. They wrote like wee troopers in the main, and most had obviously prepared well. They were different to the people they were at Christmas when they did this sort of thing for the first time. Much more mature in an academic sense. My constant Glaswegian naggings have worked! They have become students. At the end one guy said to me that he couldn't wait to get back after the summer to HND, he had enjoyed his exams that much this time. I knew where he was coming from, but cautioned him to get a life!

I have the other HNC 1b section tomorrow. They are doing the same gig. I bet they have the same mind set as todays valiant band, and for the same reasons. Maybe tell you if they did tomorrow.