Do you have staff meetings at BSB ---- NO
Well not the sort of staff meetings where staff contribute to the discussion or where any decision might be altered by comments from staff. Not the sort of meeting where staff ever get to vote on any issue.
Oh no, staff meetings are to be avoided at all costs, unless some overwhelming matter arises that requires the staff to be lectured on some issue.
The system used by Jo Wells (also uses Puddy-Wells as her surname) is that of a senior management team (herself and the KS coordinators) who meet weekly, plus individual weekly meetings with each if the coordinators. From there, diseminated downwards only, are weekly key stage meetings, some of these are quite democratic but KS2 are not.
The KS2 coordinator is a total control freak.
One staff member was told at interview, Yes you can make up and use your own history uit if you want to. No No No says the KS2 coordinator - you must do this unit and this one only (despite limited to non existant resources for the said unit).
You must mark in green pen
You must present me with a weekly plan showing everything you plan to breathe for the next week.
You must then go over it after the week and highlight in green things that went well, in red things that did not and in yellow things you could improve. (sorry if I have the colours wrong)
Her weekly staff meetings are one way sessions only.
When the report format was changed she insisted on have a box for comments and a font size that allowed 340 words. Unfortunately teachers feel they have to fill such boxes so the outcome of ten reports or so on each child was a huge dossier of meaningless words. And if yu take the kid for music or DT or art and have only seen them 6 to 8 times then you still have to fill in this box. Fortunately some rebels forced the box size down and the font size up before the next set of reports - its still excessive though.
One teacher, who had been employed to start in October, due to another wiser teacher resigning, arrived to find that she had only three weeks to get to know where her kids were at and to have these reports done. She asked for a laptop to take home at the weekend to work on the reports (the school had half a dozen for use by staff), "No you cannot" says the KS2 coordinator, "can I have extended time then" she asks. "No, must be in on time"
Another staff member, hearing of the plight loans her her computer and then goes to make the point to the principal ,Jo Wells, that the KS2 coordinator was being pretty tough.
Do you think she was listened to, sorry no. She got soundly abused for undermining the KS2 coordinator.
The problem is you see, that because the KS2 coordinator is a paranoid narcissistic, she is great mates, really great mates with the principal so that the principal will not hear of any complaints against her friend.
I could go on for a long time but I am sure you are getting the flavour of the management at this school.
If you want more info, look out for upcoming staff experiences
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This is highly interesting stuff! I only wish I had this sort of information prior to taking my current post at BSB.
If you want stories - we got 'em!
I am a long time parent who finds it quite disturbing that you have enough time to write such nonsense. You obviously hold a grudge probably due to your failings at the school. Like every business we all have problems & schools are no different. This does nothing for your credibility who ever you are.
Its fair to say that grudges may be held but people are entitled to their opinion. What Bredrin has written is not nonsense though maybe a little dramatized.
There are many great teachers at the school who are doing a grand job in a tricky situation.
You are right that all businesses and schools have their fair share of problems - but what should we do? ignore them?
If you are a parent then I am guessing you are wanting the best for your children. That would surely be happy teachers with support and resources provided by their school. Sadly that is often not the case at BSB.
Surely your time would be better spent concentrating on your next place of teaching making sure you get a suitable posting, than airing your dirty laundry in public - there is a time and a place
A question - how long did you manage to endure teaching in such an awful place? Maybe you'd be better suited working in the UK I'm sure they have no problems in the schools there at all!!!
You say you are a parent Nicky - but parents do not troll through TES staffroom forums ?
And no I had no failings at BSB, just appalled at the treatment some staff got. BSB has the potential to be a really good school for both teachers and pupils but only after the problems faced by teachers are dealt with. There will be a post for parents at some stage but at present I wish to aleart teachers to potential problems.
Teachers have enough on there plate without being required to do grossly excessive and utterly useless planning. Such as demanded at BSB.
I am a parent. Alerted to this site by another parent concerned for the future of the school when future teachers start reading the amateur dramatics and decide not to join the school. So in fact it looks like parents do read this as well. Do you think there is less planning and paperworks required at other british schools - whether in Romania or elsewhere. Try moving to the UK where you have this and 30+ children to deal with as well. I don't think postings like this do much good for the future of the school, our children or indeed the teachers. Problems should be sorted out with the correct people instead of pointing the finger at people and writing damaging remarks about people who obviously have problems of their own.
Ionia; and the sea that washed it is called the Ionian sea. And his posterity are
iaonev, "Iaonians", in Homer {i} and Aristophanes {k}; and the scholiast of the latter says, that the Barbarians call all Greeks Iaonians. The next son of Japheth is Tubal or Thobel, as Josephus calls him, who says {l} the Thobelians in his time were called Iberians, a people in Asia, that dwelt near the Euxine sea; and in Albania was a place called Thabilaca, as may be seen in Ptolemy {m}, and another called Thilbis, from whom might spring the Iberians in Europe, now called Spaniards; but Bochart {n} thinks that the Tibarenes are the descendants of Tubal, a people that dwelt between the Trapezuntii and Armenia the less; and he wonders that this never was thought of by any; but in that he is mistaken, for our countryman Mr. Broughton {o} makes the Tibarenes to spring from Tubal; and Epiphanius {p} many hundreds of years before him. Meshech, his next son, is mentioned along with Tubal in Eze 27:13 from him came the Mosocheni, as Josephus {q}, who in his time were called Cappadocians, with whom there was a city then named Mazaca, since Caesarea {r}; and these seem to be the same that Pliny {s} calls Moscheni, who inhabited the mountains Moschici, which were at the north east of Cappadocia. Some derive the Muscovites from them, which is not improbable: the last of Japheth's sons is Tiras or Thiras, which Jarchi interprets very wrongly by Paras, or Persia; much better the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem, and so a Jewish chronologer {t}, by Thracia; for the descendants of Thiras, as Josephus {u} observes, the Greeks call Thracians; and in Thrace was a river called Atyras {w}, which has in it a trace of this man's name; and Odrysus, whom the Thracians worshipped, is the same with Tiras, which god sometimes goes by the name of Thuras; and is one of the names of Mars, the god of the Thracians.
{z} In Theogonia. {a} Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 1. {b} Ib. {c} Phaleg. l. 3. c. 8. col. 171, 172. {d} Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 30. {e} Clio sive, l. 1. c. 16, 103. & Melpomene sive, l. 4. c. 11, 12, 13. {f} Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 1.) {g} Ib. {h} Dissert. 48. {i} Iliad. 13. ver. 685. {k} Acharneus. act. 1. scen. 3. p. 376. {l} Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 1. {m} Geograph. l. 5. c. 12. {n} Phaleg. l. 3. c. 12. col. 180. {o} See his Works, p. 2, 58. {p} Ancorat. p. 546. {q} Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 1.) {r} Vid. Ammian. Marcellin. l. 20. p. 170. Ed. Vales. {s} Nat. Hist. l. 6. c. 9, 10. {t} Sepher Juchasin, fol. 145. 1. Vid. T. Bab. Yoma, fol. 10. 1. {u} Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 1.) {w} Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 4. c. 11.
Ionia; and the sea that washed it is called the Ionian sea. And his posterity are
iaonev, "Iaonians", in Homer {i} and Aristophanes {k}; and the scholiast of the latter says, that the Barbarians call all Greeks Iaonians. The next son of Japheth is Tubal or Thobel, as Josephus calls him, who says {l} the Thobelians in his time were called Iberians, a people in Asia, that dwelt near the Euxine sea; and in Albania was a place called Thabilaca, as may be seen in Ptolemy {m}, and another called Thilbis, from whom might spring the Iberians in Europe, now called Spaniards; but Bochart {n} thinks that the Tibarenes are the descendants of Tubal, a people that dwelt between the Trapezuntii and Armenia the less; and he wonders that this never was thought of by any; but in that he is mistaken, for our countryman Mr. Broughton {o} makes the Tibarenes to spring from Tubal; and Epiphanius {p} many hundreds of years before him. Meshech, his next son, is mentioned along with Tubal in Eze 27:13 from him came the Mosocheni, as Josephus {q}, who in his time were called Cappadocians, with whom there was a city then named Mazaca, since Caesarea {r}; and these seem to be the same that Pliny {s} calls Moscheni, who inhabited the mountains Moschici, which were at the north east of Cappadocia. Some derive the Muscovites from them, which is not improbable: the last of Japheth's sons is Tiras or Thiras, which Jarchi interprets very wrongly by Paras, or Persia; much better the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem, and so a Jewish chronologer {t}, by Thracia; for the descendants of Thiras, as Josephus {u} observes, the Greeks call Thracians; and in Thrace was a river called Atyras {w}, which has in it a trace of this man's name; and Odrysus, whom the Thracians worshipped, is the same with Tiras, which god sometimes goes by the name of Thuras; and is one of the names of Mars, the god of the Thracians.
{z} In Theogonia. {a} Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 1. {b} Ib. {c} Phaleg. l. 3. c. 8. col. 171, 172. {d} Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 30. {e} Clio sive, l. 1. c. 16, 103. & Melpomene sive, l. 4. c. 11, 12, 13. {f} Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 1.) {g} Ib. {h} Dissert. 48. {i} Iliad. 13. ver. 685. {k} Acharneus. act. 1. scen. 3. p. 376. {l} Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 1. {m} Geograph. l. 5. c. 12. {n} Phaleg. l. 3. c. 12. col. 180. {o} See his Works, p. 2, 58. {p} Ancorat. p. 546. {q} Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 1.) {r} Vid. Ammian. Marcellin. l. 20. p. 170. Ed. Vales. {s} Nat. Hist. l. 6. c. 9, 10. {t} Sepher Juchasin, fol. 145. 1. Vid. T. Bab. Yoma, fol. 10. 1. {u} Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 1.) {w} Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 4. c. 11.
vIonia; and the sea that washed it is called the Ionian sea. And his posterity are
iaonev, "Iaonians", in Homer {i} and Aristophanes {k}; and the scholiast of the latter says, that the Barbarians call all Greeks Iaonians. The next son of Japheth is Tubal or Thobel, as Josephus calls him, who says {l} the Thobelians in his time were called Iberians, a people in Asia, that dwelt near the Euxine sea; and in Albania was a place called Thabilaca, as may be seen in Ptolemy {m}, and another called Thilbis, from whom might spring the Iberians in Europe, now called Spaniards; but Bochart {n} thinks that the Tibarenes are the descendants of Tubal, a people that dwelt between the Trapezuntii and Armenia the less; and he wonders that this never was thought of by any; but in that he is mistaken, for our countryman Mr. Broughton {o} makes the Tibarenes to spring from Tubal; and Epiphanius {p} many hundreds of years before him. Meshech, his next son, is mentioned along with Tubal in Eze 27:13 from him came the Mosocheni, as Josephus {q}, who in his time were called Cappadocians, with whom there was a city then named Mazaca, since Caesarea {r}; and these seem to be the same that Pliny {s} calls Moscheni, who inhabited the mountains Moschici, which were at the north east of Cappadocia. Some derive the Muscovites from them, which is not improbable: the last of Japheth's sons is Tiras or Thiras, which Jarchi interprets very wrongly by Paras, or Persia; much better the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem, and so a Jewish chronologer {t}, by Thracia; for the descendants of Thiras, as Josephus {u} observes, the Greeks call Thracians; and in Thrace was a river called Atyras {w}, which has in it a trace of this man's name; and Odrysus, whom the Thracians worshipped, is the same with Tiras, which god sometimes goes by the name of Thuras; and is one of the names of Mars, the god of the Thracians.
{z} In Theogonia. {a} Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 1. {b} Ib. {c} Phaleg. l. 3. c. 8. col. 171, 172. {d} Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 30. {e} Clio sive, l. 1. c. 16, 103. & Melpomene sive, l. 4. c. 11, 12, 13. {f} Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 1.) {g} Ib. {h} Dissert. 48. {i} Iliad. 13. ver. 685. {k} Acharneus. act. 1. scen. 3. p. 376. {l} Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 1. {m} Geograph. l. 5. c. 12. {n} Phaleg. l. 3. c. 12. col. 180. {o} See his Works, p. 2, 58. {p} Ancorat. p. 546. {q} Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 1.) {r} Vid. Ammian. Marcellin. l. 20. p. 170. Ed. Vales. {s} Nat. Hist. l. 6. c. 9, 10. {t} Sepher Juchasin, fol. 145. 1. Vid. T. Bab. Yoma, fol. 10. 1. {u} Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 1.) {w} Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 4. c. 11.
Ionia; and the sea that washed it is called the Ionian sea. And his posterity are
iaonev, "Iaonians", in Homer {i} and Aristophanes {k}; and the scholiast of the latter says, that the Barbarians call all Greeks Iaonians. The next son of Japheth is Tubal or Thobel, as Josephus calls him, who says {l} the Thobelians in his time were called Iberians, a people in Asia, that dwelt near the Euxine sea; and in Albania was a place called Thabilaca, as may be seen in Ptolemy {m}, and another called Thilbis, from whom might spring the Iberians in Europe, now called Spaniards; but Bochart {n} thinks that the Tibarenes are the descendants of Tubal, a people that dwelt between the Trapezuntii and Armenia the less; and he wonders that this never was thought of by any; but in that he is mistaken, for our countryman Mr. Broughton {o} makes the Tibarenes to spring from Tubal; and Epiphanius {p} many hundreds of years before him. Meshech, his next son, is mentioned along with Tubal in Eze 27:13 from him came the Mosocheni, as Josephus {q}, who in his time were called Cappadocians, with whom there was a city then named Mazaca, since Caesarea {r}; and these seem to be the same that Pliny {s} calls Moscheni, who inhabited the mountains Moschici, which were at the north east of Cappadocia. Some derive the Muscovites from them, which is not improbable: the last of Japheth's sons is Tiras or Thiras, which Jarchi interprets very wrongly by Paras, or Persia; much better the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem, and so a Jewish chronologer {t}, by Thracia; for the descendants of Thiras, as Josephus {u} observes, the Greeks call Thracians; and in Thrace was a river called Atyras {w}, which has in it a trace of this man's name; and Odrysus, whom the Thracians worshipped, is the same with Tiras, which god sometimes goes by the name of Thuras; and is one of the names of Mars, the god of the Thracians.
{z} In Theogonia. {a} Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 1. {b} Ib. {c} Phaleg. l. 3. c. 8. col. 171, 172. {d} Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 30. {e} Clio sive, l. 1. c. 16, 103. & Melpomene sive, l. 4. c. 11, 12, 13. {f} Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 1.) {g} Ib. {h} Dissert. 48. {i} Iliad. 13. ver. 685. {k} Acharneus. act. 1. scen. 3. p. 376. {l} Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 1. {m} Geograph. l. 5. c. 12. {n} Phaleg. l. 3. c. 12. col. 180. {o} See his Works, p. 2, 58. {p} Ancorat. p. 546. {q} Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 1.) {r} Vid. Ammian. Marcellin. l. 20. p. 170. Ed. Vales. {s} Nat. Hist. l. 6. c. 9, 10. {t} Sepher Juchasin, fol. 145. 1. Vid. T. Bab. Yoma, fol. 10. 1. {u} Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 1.) {w} Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 4. c. 11.
Ionia; and the sea that washed it is called the Ionian sea. And his posterity are
iaonev, "Iaonians", in Homer {i} and Aristophanes {k}; and the scholiast of the latter says, that the Barbarians call all Greeks Iaonians. The next son of Japheth is Tubal or Thobel, as Josephus calls him, who says {l} the Thobelians in his time were called Iberians, a people in Asia, that dwelt near the Euxine sea; and in Albania was a place called Thabilaca, as may be seen in Ptolemy {m}, and another called Thilbis, from whom might spring the Iberians in Europe, now called Spaniards; but Bochart {n} thinks that the Tibarenes are the descendants of Tubal, a people that dwelt between the Trapezuntii and Armenia the less; and he wonders that this never was thought of by any; but in that he is mistaken, for our countryman Mr. Broughton {o} makes the Tibarenes to spring from Tubal; and Epiphanius {p} many hundreds of years before him. Meshech, his next son, is mentioned along with Tubal in Eze 27:13 from him came the Mosocheni, as Josephus {q}, who in his time were called Cappadocians, with whom there was a city then named Mazaca, since Caesarea {r}; and these seem to be the same that Pliny {s} calls Moscheni, who inhabited the mountains Moschici, which were at the north east of Cappadocia. Some derive the Muscovites from them, which is not improbable: the last of Japheth's sons is Tiras or Thiras, which Jarchi interprets very wrongly by Paras, or Persia; much better the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem, and so a Jewish chronologer {t}, by Thracia; for the descendants of Thiras, as Josephus {u} observes, the Greeks call Thracians; and in Thrace was a river called Atyras {w}, which has in it a trace of this man's name; and Odrysus, whom the Thracians worshipped, is the same with Tiras, which god sometimes goes by the name of Thuras; and is one of the names of Mars, the god of the Thracians.
{z} In Theogonia. {a} Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 1. {b} Ib. {c} Phaleg. l. 3. c. 8. col. 171, 172. {d} Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 30. {e} Clio sive, l. 1. c. 16, 103. & Melpomene sive, l. 4. c. 11, 12, 13. {f} Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 1.) {g} Ib. {h} Dissert. 48. {i} Iliad. 13. ver. 685. {k} Acharneus. act. 1. scen. 3. p. 376. {l} Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 1. {m} Geograph. l. 5. c. 12. {n} Phaleg. l. 3. c. 12. col. 180. {o} See his Works, p. 2, 58. {p} Ancorat. p. 546. {q} Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 1.) {r} Vid. Ammian. Marcellin. l. 20. p. 170. Ed. Vales. {s} Nat. Hist. l. 6. c. 9, 10. {t} Sepher Juchasin, fol. 145. 1. Vid. T. Bab. Yoma, fol. 10. 1. {u} Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 1.) {w} Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 4. c. 11.
Ionia; and the sea that washed it is called the Ionian sea. And his posterity are
iaonev, "Iaonians", in Homer {i} and Aristophanes {k}; and the scholiast of the latter says, that the Barbarians call all Greeks Iaonians. The next son of Japheth is Tubal or Thobel, as Josephus calls him, who says {l} the Thobelians in his time were called Iberians, a people in Asia, that dwelt near the Euxine sea; and in Albania was a place called Thabilaca, as may be seen in Ptolemy {m}, and another called Thilbis, from whom might spring the Iberians in Europe, now called Spaniards; but Bochart {n} thinks that the Tibarenes are the descendants of Tubal, a people that dwelt between the Trapezuntii and Armenia the less; and he wonders that this never was thought of by any; but in that he is mistaken, for our countryman Mr. Broughton {o} makes the Tibarenes to spring from Tubal; and Epiphanius {p} many hundreds of years before him. Meshech, his next son, is mentioned along with Tubal in Eze 27:13 from him came the Mosocheni, as Josephus {q}, who in his time were called Cappadocians, with whom there was a city then named Mazaca, since Caesarea {r}; and these seem to be the same that Pliny {s} calls Moscheni, who inhabited the mountains Moschici, which were at the north east of Cappadocia. Some derive the Muscovites from them, which is not improbable: the last of Japheth's sons is Tiras or Thiras, which Jarchi interprets very wrongly by Paras, or Persia; much better the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem, and so a Jewish chronologer {t}, by Thracia; for the descendants of Thiras, as Josephus {u} observes, the Greeks call Thracians; and in Thrace was a river called Atyras {w}, which has in it a trace of this man's name; and Odrysus, whom the Thracians worshipped, is the same with Tiras, which god sometimes goes by the name of Thuras; and is one of the names of Mars, the god of the Thracians.
{z} In Theogonia. {a} Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 1. {b} Ib. {c} Phaleg. l. 3. c. 8. col. 171, 172. {d} Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 30. {e} Clio sive, l. 1. c. 16, 103. & Melpomene sive, l. 4. c. 11, 12, 13. {f} Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 1.) {g} Ib. {h} Dissert. 48. {i} Iliad. 13. ver. 685. {k} Acharneus. act. 1. scen. 3. p. 376. {l} Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 1. {m} Geograph. l. 5. c. 12. {n} Phaleg. l. 3. c. 12. col. 180. {o} See his Works, p. 2, 58. {p} Ancorat. p. 546. {q} Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 1.) {r} Vid. Ammian. Marcellin. l. 20. p. 170. Ed. Vales. {s} Nat. Hist. l. 6. c. 9, 10. {t} Sepher Juchasin, fol. 145. 1. Vid. T. Bab. Yoma, fol. 10. 1. {u} Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 1.) {w} Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 4. c. 11.
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