It was the end of June and so the end of term when I found myself reminded of the reason why I adopted Guineapigmum as my nom de blog. Three years ago (was it really that long ago?) the school decided to bring the Standard Grade exams forward a year. The students would choose their 8 [...]
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Guineapigs
Published August 14th, 2008 in Highers, SQA, School, Standard Grades and Teachers. 2 CommentsThe personal touch
Published May 22nd, 2008 in Boys, Communication, Highers, SQA, School, Standard Grades, Teachers and Work experience. 2 CommentsSo there we are. External exams are over for another year. Next year will be the big one - GP1/Highers (I’m trembling and pale at the prospect) with GP2/Standard Grades (an entirely different proposition). This year, though, was a relative breeze.
First up there was SVS. Once I’d got my head round the fact that
The Glass Menagerie
Published April 17th, 2008 in Boys, Edinburgh, Family and Standard Grades. 0 CommentsMy birthday is in January and this year, in celebration of my advancing years, we thought we’d go and play at being grown ups for an evening. So we went to the theatre - and it’s not even the Festival! Yes, we had to remind ourselves that there is theatre in Edinburgh outside the Festival. I used to [...]
High days and Holy days
Published January 9th, 2008 in Blogging, Celebrations, Family, Holidays, Out & about, School, Standard Grades and ovarian cancer. 12 CommentsThis is going to be a very selfish, mean-spirited, churlish, curmudgeonly, whingeing and Grumpy Old Woman sort of post. There. You’ve been warned. For more enlightened, friendly, positive, cheerful reading you could try some of the links on my blogroll instead. Iota’s started posting again about life in the States and she’s always entertaining and currently much more [...]
Some standard reflections
Published August 23rd, 2007 in SQA, School and Standard Grades. 7 CommentsNow that the silly grin is starting to wear off GP1’s face and school is back in earnest, I thought it was time to reflect on our experience of sitting Standard Grades in S3. After all, this is pretty much where I came in, although my blog posts have since ambled off into all sorts of areas [...]
Standard Grade results are out and he’s done just fine! What a relief! I knew it wouldn’t in fact be the end of the world as we know it if he didn’t get the necessary grades - but respectable grades do make it so much more straighforward! He got Credits in the 6 exams he [...]
Home Alone
Published August 1st, 2007 in Boys, Gardening, Golf, Music and Standard Grades. 0 CommentsI’m all on my own for a few days this week, with the boys in St Andrews and husband deep south on a school reunion. It feels quite strange - I don’t have to take anyone anywhere and can cook and eat what I want when I want. So instead of cooking dinner at the [...]
Raison d’être
Published June 8th, 2007 in Blogging, Boys, School, Standard Grades, Surveys and broken ankle. 4 CommentsNow that the Standard Grades are over, and school is winding down for the year, I have this niggling feeling that my raison d’être has gone, vanished, disparu. Perhaps I should write a final blog post, following the lead of AB and Blethers. Trouble is, it’s too addictive and I’m not sure I could even [...]
Normal service
Published June 1st, 2007 in Boys, School, Standard Grades and broken ankle. 2 CommentsWell, Standard Grades finished last Friday and there has been a collective breathing out and relaxing of all muscles (at least, all that don’t involve crutches and ankles). Biology last Monday received some intensive enforced revision over the final 24 hours although, once he’d trotted off to the exam, I looked over some past papers [...]
All at sea
Published May 1st, 2007 in Boys, Microscope, School, Standard Grades, Surveys and Working at home. 1 CommentIt seems that most of the Irish Sea - well, the seabed - has just arrived in my back yard, as a result of one of the quotes I did last week. If I had my camera, which I mislaid at Dunbar last week, I would show you what it looks like and why I [...]
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