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A day in the life
Makingtheirmark:Countdownpresenter,
Sophie WeStern, 25, english Grab roll. Lunch duty. obesity RachelRiley,launchesMakeYourMark2009
teacher of the parish – the inner patrol. More strong coffee. pip! withentrepreneurialstudentsfromCecil
city parish – leaves her matchbox pip! register! Where’s perkins? JonesHighSchoolinSouthend
in earls Court in the gunmetal Still AWoL. phones mum. pip!
dawn. She zips into shop to get pip! Double 13th year. Another
Guardian. She speed-reads the favourite. Beckett. Godot. there’s
red tops to get a little zeitgeist. a fabulous, clever, nimble, open
“Gordon ate my child! Sir discussion on language, slapstick
Alex kills fourth official! Katie’s and the metaphysical absurdities
chest explodes! Left wing of existence. not half. pip! pip!
loony throws crippled illiterate She’ s such a good teacher – like
out of classroom so many. And against
window! Gove blames so many odds, so much
permissive sixties!’ toxic nonsense. Can
Marvellous! the she go home now?
Moronic inferno. the not quite. there’s the
toxic hum of so many twilight Workshop on
of her pupils’ lives. She Synoptics conducted in the
feels like weeping. For prevailing gibberish. Worse
this she tries to make them than Beckett! She stifles
literate? more mirth. She leaves and
She gets to school, calls on perkin’s mum in King
has a yard of coffee, hell Mansions. Bloodhounds
marks 90 books, calls bark in stairwells. Alfie is
Alfie perkin’s mum, still missing. his mother is
ponders a few thumping still weeping. his father is
ultimatums, swears at an still absent. they hope for the
email, covers lesson. and best. Some hope. She zips round
legs it to Staff Briefing. More Sainsbury’s for supper, goes back
Students make their mark
management motivational bollox. to the matchbox, toils over more
“Minds are like parachutes. marking and conks out during
they work best when open!” Newsnight where public school
eh? She stifles mirth. You get boys like Balls or Willets or the
by Charles Gubert
are due to find out shortly if they dents came up with a solar-pow- ronmental impact of their entries
have made it to the national finals, ered mobile phone and also with and ensure they are prepared for
sacked for mirth. dread Gove drone pompously on which are being held in London on glow-in-the-dark footballs, boots another of the challenges that will
Sophie’s day begins. pip! pip! about failing teachers. ho hum. Around 70,000 students have December 10 to coincide with the and pitch markings – they called become ever more important to
Lesson 1. A top 7th year. Michael Sophie Western – english been coming up with profitable Un Climate Change Conference in it FUSeball. it saves energy and business.”
rosen poem. Brilliant and teacher of the parish – sets the “low-carbon” business ideas as Copenhagen. would also suit conditions in less the activities came as an
exhausting. pip! pip! Lesson 2. A alarm for another gunmetal dawn, part of the 2009 Make Your Mark the challenge was launched developed countries. they worked enterprise UK survey found that
not top 9th year. Some beyond for another day in the Moronic Challenge. by Ms riley during a recent visit superbly as a team and the ideas a company’s green business cre-
ritalin. Some beyond pale. tough inferno. the challenge, which is being to Cecil Jones high School in were really innovative. i could see dentials determine half of young
going. pip! pip! Break duty. pip! fronted by Countdown presenter Southend, which was one of those them being developed, as there is people’s purchasing decisions.
pip! the dread drama cover. • Ian Whitwham is a former rachel riley, is the UK’s largest that took part. nothing similar on the market.” the poll of 2,000 young people,
Goons swing off curtains. pip! teacher. A collection of his best one-day business and enterprise Another school that got involved Make Your Mark manager, tori aged 14 to 19, also revealed that 20
pip! Lesson 4. her favourite 11th columns, At the Chalkface: Great competition and took place last was Winchmore School in London. James, said that the low-carbon per cent would set up a business
year. on Armitage. Consultant Moments in education, is out Monday, november 16, as part of Wendy Winter, economic wellbeing theme reflected the views of young to make a positive impact on the
says her pacing’s dodgy. it’s not. now priced £8.99 from Hopscotch Global entrepreneurship Week. co-ordinator at the school, described people across the country. environment.
She’s terrific. And late for lunch. Books. Order on 01722 717022. After local and regional judg- some of her students’ ideas. Ms riley added: “this year, we For more details, visit www.
ing, the students with the best ideas She told SecEd: “the stu- made all entrants consider the envi- enterpriseuk.org/makeyourmark
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