Subject review

It probably goes without saying but I'll say it anyway: there are loads of great photographers on Blipfoto and I often find having a browse around the site quite daunting. But the daily blog has never been one hundred percent - or even fifty percent - about the photography for me. 

Primarily it's a diary and, for whatever reason, it gives me a discipline I don't have when trying to keep a private journal. (Also, the one year I did manage to keep a diary, 1998, it really is pretty boring; I made the mistake of recording everything I did and not just the interesting bits. I do note, however, that today in 1998 I went to the wedding of my friends Angela and Keith. Happy anniversary, guys!)

Ideally, then, my photo would reflect whatever I did that day. Sometimes that's a bit tricky - I didn't want to take a photo in the middle of the Hornsey Road talk, for example - and sometimes, like today, at Dan's subject review, it's simply not practical!

Sometime in the last few years, the school replaced the chaos of Parents' Evening with two distinct meetings: an academic review with the pupil's form teacher and, separate to that, a subject review, held in the afternoon, with each of the pupil's teachers. It is a much, much better system.

And now that Dan is only taking three subjects - Philosophy, Economics, and, of course, Music - there is far less hiking around the school involved!

I was really proud of him, this afternoon. Regardless of his academic achievement, all of the teachers clearly like him and they all made a point of saying how much they enjoy having him in their classes. And I was also pleased to see how he manages to be himself with them, whilst respecting the fact that they are his teachers. 

(Today's photo was taken from the office 'Pod', whilst a chap on the phone ran through our indemnity insurance with me. The bare branches of the trees and the wintry sky are a good representation of my enjoyment at that point in the day.)

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Reading: 'Frank Derrick's Holiday Of A Lifetime' by J B Morrison (I really can't recall where this book came from but I've yet to understand why anyone bothered publishing it.)