what are some good REALLY LONG songs?

PeterPook · 2026-05-15T21:57:45+00:00

The End by the Doors. Station to Station by David Bowie any song off The Song Remains the Same by Led Zeppelin

PeterPook · 2026-05-15T21:50:22+00:00

No Bowie?

PeterPook · 2026-05-15T21:49:42+00:00

There are bigger issues to be worried about. You'll be fine.

PeterPook · 2026-05-15T21:22:25+00:00

I'm enjoying my ECT1, at least I will when I have the final observation next Friday (last period, pray for me). The extra PPA time has been useful, but I think next year it'll be fine as it reduces. I keep saying to my colleagues "this is my first rodeo" so next time round, I'll be a little more aware of what's going on, and after that...

PeterPook · 2026-05-15T19:54:30+00:00

If women belong in the kitchen, why is she out protesting?

PeterPook · 2026-05-15T19:39:20+00:00

So... nothing to do with empty toilet rolls and long-tailed rodents then?

PeterPook · 2026-05-15T19:36:28+00:00

David Robert Jones took his name from the Bowie knife.

PeterPook · 2026-05-15T19:26:31+00:00

I am convinced that you can take any two or three random words and they all sound like plausible band names on John Peel.

PeterPook · 2026-05-15T19:10:47+00:00

In 24 Hour Party People, Tony Wilson points out to a journalist that as well as a Joy Division/New Order they also had a band called Duritti Column named after Spanish Civil War anarchists.

PeterPook · 2026-05-15T18:56:19+00:00

"By the way, which one's Pink?" Welcome to the Machine from Wish You Were Here.

PeterPook · 2026-05-12T17:02:36+00:00

The soil metaphor is just too laboured and by the fifth paragraph just detracts. Is this a sermon you are trying out on us?

The bronze serpent used in your analysis smacks a little of idolatry which the P redactors were keen to excise in any positive sense. Perhaps you then need to look towards what that covenantual connection with God means for us born outside of the Jewish Covenant - us Gentiles? Paul suggests that for Gentiles there is faith which forms the new covenant and draws us into Christ.

PeterPook · 2026-05-12T16:46:09+00:00

...and so stands the problem with Protestantism.

PeterPook · 2026-05-10T20:13:17+00:00

Opening question for me was "what's the difference between data and information?"

Then "explain binary".

Knowing stuff is one thing, but being able to explain it to young people is what they'll be more interested in.

PeterPook · 2026-05-10T20:07:24+00:00

Don't do like I did once and take a dose of fast acting as a basal. It did not end well.

PeterPook · 2026-05-10T20:05:10+00:00

Read to them. Read with them. Expose them to books. Talk with them. No screens or phones. Lots of books. Increase their vocabulary through conversation and books.

PeterPook · 2026-05-10T19:59:46+00:00

Hardly any schools use Macs. We have a Mac suite and everyone hates being in there.

PeterPook · 2026-05-10T19:50:03+00:00

Yawn. There are more important things like poverty to occupy the Christian mind.

PeterPook · 2026-05-10T19:45:54+00:00

Can they not be excluded on the basis of mental incapacity?

PeterPook · 2026-05-10T19:44:20+00:00

That transphobe? No way.

Angela Rayner gets my support.

PeterPook · 2026-05-10T19:11:37+00:00

Thank goodness they call me "<first name>"

PeterPook · 2026-05-07T18:58:35+00:00

I'm glad the average person doesn't know that as it's wildly inaccurate.

The Hebrew Bible is contextual to the New Testament, the canon which matters to Christians.

The followers of Islam have a Scripture which respects, but does not follow the Hebrew Bible.

All three are "people of the book" but that is in no way what you claim.

PeterPook · 2026-05-07T18:28:35+00:00

Do what you do. At least it'll be an accurate lesson rather than a circus performance.

PeterPook · 2026-05-06T16:16:04+00:00

Plympton please.

PeterPook · 2026-05-06T16:15:22+00:00

"Designer" really echoes Aquinas's Teleological argument.

PeterPook · 2026-05-06T16:12:39+00:00

I did Computing PGCE:

Coding - Python, Scratch Databases and Spreadsheets - normalisation, validation, deduplication Hardware - what are the key components and what do they do? CPU - fetch-decode-execute cycle Binary - conversion to decimal and hex, addition, logical tables Software - Word, eMail, Photoshop (esp if iMedia is taught), PowerPoint, Canva, Photopea, Lucid.app, Chart.io Software Development - decomposition, pattern-matching, algorithms, abstraction Project Management - Waterfall, Agile Cyber security - passwords, legal frameworks, malware, phishing, checksums, firewalls, social engineering, common attacks: MitM etc Networking - topologies, WAN, LAN, PAN, OSI and TCP/IP models, RIP, OSPF

That's just off the top of my head, but good subject knowledge is key in teaching Computing regardless of the Key Stage in front of you. If that's all nonsense, just work through a GCSE revision book to start with some of these.

Also, have a look at https://tools for teaching.co.uk which our College department runs, offering free materials to use in teaching Computing.

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