ORRsome blog posts from the week that was Week 51

Posted on December 24, 2014 by rachorr

ORRsome blog posts hitting the timelines this festive week!

Teacher Toolkit + Rachel Orr
http://teachertoolkit.me/2014/12/20/while-teachers-marked-their-books-by-rachelorr/

Teacher Toolkit
http://teachertoolkit.me/2014/12/06/education-panorama-december-14-by-teachertoolkit/?utm_content=bufferf0606&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

James Theobald
http://othmarstrombone.wordpress.com/2014/12/21/a-christmas-carol-marking-was-dead-time-consuming-to-begin-with/

Tom Sherrington
http://headguruteacher.com/2014/12/20/my-first-term-of-building-at-highbury-grove/

Bryn Goodman
http://www.bgoodman7.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/foreground-and-background-retention.html

Jordy Jax
http://jordyjax.wordpress.com/2014/12/16/the-angel-who-got-her-wings/

Mark Anderson
http://ictevangelist.com/reflections-pedagoo/

John Tomsett
http://johntomsett.com/2014/12/20/this-much-i-know-about-the-challenge-of-becoming-truly-great/

Tom Sherrington
http://headguruteacher.com/2014/12/22/a-cultural-capital-christmas-carol/

Last Monday befORR Christmas!

Posted on December 22, 2014 by rachorr

It’s Monday.

The last Monday befORR Christmas.

Education Alphabet

While teachers marked their books last night

12 days of Christmas

‘Twas the night befORR Christmas

http://teachertoolkit.me/2013/12/24/twas-the-night-before-christmas-when-all-through-the-school-by-teachertoolkit/

A week in my shoes 13th-19th December 2014

Posted on December 19, 2014 by rachorr

It’s Friday!

We made it!

Have an ORRsome Christmas break.

What did you get up to during your last week?

Lovely weekend at home having a quiet and relaxing time.

Wee chest infection to deal with but lovely hot toddies too.

Monday – our last one before the hols.

Be kind to yourself and to others.

First Christmas party of the week for Y3. Another 7 parties over the course of the week.

Final Christmas performance from UKS2 in front of the whole school. An overwhelming response regarding all our Christmas concerts has been received from our families. Children and staff have worked really hard sharing the true meaning of Christmas.

We start the new year with a major toilet refurb. SLMT met to plan how we manage routes around school whilst phase one of the refurb starts.

Mince pies, hot chocolate and carols around the tree this evening with Apollo Music Band. An ORRsome evening had by all.

Few more twiddly bits in the kitchen….

And now it’s Friday. The last Friday of the Autumn term.

We have our own carol service in church this afternoon. Children and staff are invited to wear something festive and Christmassy. Christmas jumper dress with reindeer is the order of the day. I wonder how many times today I will hear staff, never mind children, say reindeer with an s on the end. #majordislike

Have an ORRsome Christmas break, whatever you get up to.

Just a couple mORR Friday week in my shoes to go and similarly with ORRsome blog posts befORR the end of 2014.

Plans already afoot for a daily blog idea for 2015 with a little built in challenge for others too.

Bring in the weekend and bring in two weeks’ rest.

ORRsome blog posts from the week that was Week 49

Posted on December 17, 2014 by rachorr

ORRsome blog posts hitting the timelines for this final week before Christmas.

Dawn Cox
http://missdcoxblog.wordpress.com/2014/12/13/authentic-leadership-in-schools-it-aint-what-you-do-its-the-way-that-you-do-it/

Martin Robinson
http://martinrobborobinson.wordpress.com/2014/12/13/on-data-and-art-should-we-want-teachers-to-have-higher-status/

Hey Miss Smith
http://heymisssmith.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/teaching-is-hard.html

Teacher Toolkit
http://teachertoolkit.me/2014/12/13/something-old-something-new-for-qkynaston/

Stephen Tierney
http://leadinglearner.me/2014/12/14/teachers-doing-it-for-themselves-worldclassteacher/

Mr Brown
http://mrbrownsays.wordpress.com/2014/12/13/finally-some-common-sense-on-free-schools/

Pete Jackson
http://pjlovingthelearning.wordpress.com/2014/10/23/the-power-of-assemblies/

Old Primary Head
http://oldprimaryhead.com/2014/12/13/dont-look-back-in-anger/

John Sweller via Harry Webb
http://websofsubstance.wordpress.com/2014/12/13/sense-from-sweller/

David Rogers
http://daviderogers.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/on-subject-knowledge.html

The Modern Miss
http://themodernmiss.wordpress.com/2014/12/14/madness-said-the-dinner-party/

A week in my shoes 6th-12th December 2014

Posted on December 12, 2014 by rachorr

It’s Friday! We are on the home straight with one mORR week to go.

What has this week brought you?

For me it has been an entire week focused on our Christmas productions.

A weekend spent clearing the decks of emails and collating my own head teacher appraisal documentation followed by a wonderful family lunch with Mum, Dad and close family friends. Lovely way the end the weekend.

Lots of festive fun to start the week!

Two dress rehearsal performances today with KS1 and LKS2. I don’t know why we call them a dress rehearsal as they are really a performance in front of the rest of the school and staff. Our children sang with gusto and thoroughly enjoyed sharing that first Christmas when love came down.

Three performances today:- LKS2, KS1 followed by an evening performance for LKS2. LKS2 have enjoyed sharing their version of nine lessons and carols through singing traditional Christmas carols. A wonderful day for all.

UKS2 and KS1 taking their turn today.

Today was the first of two EYFS Christmas productions.

Driving snow on the way to work this mORRning as well as mORR flurries during the day.

It’s Friday again and the last of our EYFS Christmas performances. One MORR perfomance to go next week.

Including all the performances children do in front of the whole school as well as their parents, by the end of next Tuesday we will have racked up 13 in total in 7 days. The children have worked extremely hard and it is clearly evident in their faces how much they have enjoyed it all.

Civilised staff ‘do’ tonight with afternoon tea.

One mORR Friday to go before we break up for Christmas. Have an ORRsome weekend.