And toes, knees, eyes, and everything!
When I got home last night there was a brown envelope marked "Hall Garth School" waiting for me on the doormat. I applied last week for the post of ICT Facilitator. Sent off my CV plus covering letter - then after I put it in the post, suddenly realised, I don't think I signed my letter!!!! Grrr! Had to dash back and send off another.
Anyway, it looks like they've extended the interview day (they were supposed to be today) because my interview is tomorrow morning. I've rung up and confirmed I will be attending. I don't think I will be going to the duck pond this evening - I will be heading for a soak in the bath, a hairwash and prettify myself for tommorow.
The school is a comprehensive, takes 11-16 year olds. Like a lot of schools these days it has specialised. In Performing Arts!!!! It's a real live Fame Academy!!!! Well, maybe not the standard of Fame, but that's what they aim for. I wonder if staff are allowed to take part? I used to be in choirs, and do folk singing. Something to mention tomorrow at my interview perhaps?
The school has had tragedy in the past. Ten years ago a gunman intruded onto the premises and shot and killed a pupil. I think there is now a garden of remembrance on the school site.
The school is walking distance away for me. About 15-20 minutes. It's on Hall Drive, which is parallel to my home street of Church Lane. The duck pond that I visit is on this street, only a few minutes away. There are 3 schools on this site plus a sports centre. It has a pleasant outlook onto the playing fields beyond, with the Cleveland Hills in the distance.
I don't know too much about the work involved with this position - lots of questions for me to ask tomorrow. The salary is reasonable. Not as good as a teacher, but probably enough for me to keep my home on - well, till retirement age anyway. The work is probably less demanding than that of a teacher. No marking papers hopefully!!! There's some work involved over school holidays.
So, I know you will all wish me luck. It's all good practice. And practice makes perfect!!!!
Edited to add a website that I found. It looks a bit different from the Grammar school that I attended as a gel!
http://icteesside.icnetwork.co.uk/0600education/schoolsguide/content_objectid=13669198_method=full_siteid=50080_headline=-Hall%2DGarth%2DSchool%2Dbr%2D-name_page.html
Cross your fingers - I've got a job interview
Best of British to you Northerner!!!
I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you!
Good Luck for tomorrow Northerner! Let us know how you get on. I'll have everything crossed for you.
Terri1948
Everything possible crossed here lol
All the very best - you deserve to get this after all the problems!!!
just read this Northener, so you'll be there now, I'm thinking of you, and hope it all goes well for you. You deserve some luck .
Good luck to you! It's sounds like a job that you would enjoy. It would be a good pay off for all the work you have done. It sounds like you have a good attitude about it too. I tell my kids that each interview they have "under their belt" gives them more practise for the interview that really important perfect job.
Thank you all. Sadly I didn't get the post. :(
There were two other candidates at the interview. The Assistant Head talked to us for about 10 minutes or so. Then the outgoing ICT Facilitator showed us around. Gave a good description of his work.
Then we had the grilling - three interviewers - with 5 questions in all. I was smiling, pleasant, and I think I answered everything pretty much correctly.
The other two guys were quite pleasant fellows. One, near my own age, was dressed casually. He really didn't seem to have enough background ICT for the job. Nothing near my level. The other chap was dressed smartly. Although his academci qualifications were not as high as mine, he had been working with a web design firm till made redundant. I'm guessing that he was the successful candidate.
So, there we are. All good experience I suppose. It's good that I made a reasonable account of myself in the interview. Better luck next time, eh?
Sorry to hear you didn't get the job Northerner :(
Terri1948
Thank you Terri. It's almost certainly a good thing that I didn't feel as nervous in this interview. I was too nervous in my last couple of interviews and didn't show myself to advantage. There'll be other oppportunities hopefully.
I intend relaxing this weekend at a folk weekend being held just down the road from me. Wheeeeeee!!!!
Enjoy your weekend :)
Another opportunity will come along soon
Folk weekend? Did you say Folk weekend Northerner?? Will Vin Garbutt be there? Actually I'm a fan of Irish Folk Music, but do like any folk music generally. I go to lots of the Dubliners gigs when they're in this area. Unfortunately one or two of the members have not been too well for the past couple of years, so their gigs are becoming thinner on the ground nowdays. :( You're sure to have a good time at a folk festival. Keep your chin up and keep positive on the job search, something will come along before long.
Terri1948
Northerner, I am so sorry to hear this. It sounded ideal for you, at least for now. I am glad you did well at the interview. But keep up witjh the applications, there is something better waiting for you eventually. Hang in there, Doris
Thank you all! There IS another vacancy open in the region, for a multimedia developer. But I checked the bus services this morning. Poor. It's several miles away. I'd have to get up about 6 in the morning to get there in the morning. I'm a poor sleeper - my mind is just going No! No! No! I think it's too much for me. I will reach a stage eventually when I have to consider moving house to get a job, but I'd prefer to leave that a year or two yet. Of course, I'm also extremely tired now, and needing a break. Poor weather doesn't help. I'm missing my jaunts on the Moors.
Yep, it's raining again. I'm hoping that they put the folk acts in an indoor room - last year it was held outside and I don't think that's practical today. It's only a small, free event. No Vinnie I'm afraid!!!!!
Sorry you didn't get the post Northener, did you get a de-briefing at the end? That can sometimes be handy.
Think the sun's nevr going to appear ever again, it's 'cos I bought this pool, ever since we erected it, the weathers been miserable!!...:-)
You all need to pop over to us then...
Hot, sunny pool weather. Our current visitors were swimming this afternoon.
Sorry, I shouldn't be so cruel *g*
Do hope your weather clears up soon so you can get out on some more jaunts Diane
Sueone, why did you have to go do a silly thing like erect a pool? Don't you know about the little weather gremlin who watches for you to hang out washing or erect pools. He's also in charge of the rainclouds and tells them...'That's it, they're all ready to enjoy the barbie...now POUR DOWN!' I think there's also a kitchen bin gremlin who waits until the bin is full and fills it up again straight away. LOL
Sorry everyone, I'm in one of my dippydeedoodah moods today **groan**
You're so right Terri, I bought a sledge many years ago now for my others when they were tiny, ever since it's not snowed here1 Not saying that we'll never see the sun again, but....
The other gremlin is the sock gremlin, who munches on odd socks,
We decorated our bedroom after Christmas, and I threw out all the odd socks, and only kept the best ones, well...I have a bottom drawer, full again of odd socks.There must be millions of these odd socks out there in the universe.
Hahaha, Sueone, yes, I agree about the sock gremlin, he does the same thing in this house, and what about the 'ironing pile' gremlin?? That one has to be the worst! I can stand ironing for hours and the pile never gets smaller.
Oh, I just discovered another gremlin too...the supermarket till gremlin. You know the one? You eventually find a till that doesn't have skeletons at the end of it (like cusomers have died and decomposed while they've been waiting) and you dive in quickly, feeling very smug and 'ha ha, I'll be out of here long before the last person in the longest queue' ...and the person in front of you begins loading the belt...all is going well and then a bag of sugar bursts, so the till operator buzzes her buzzer and the light starts to flash and after 10 minutes a supervisor appears who takes a look at what has happened and goes to get a cleaner.....yawn...meanwhile you're watching that longest queue getting shorter, and shorter, and you're itching to dive onto the end of it just as someone else who has been shopping for an entire shipping fleet pushes her trolley into the space. Grrrrrrrrrr
Does anyone else know of different gremlins?
Terri1948
good chuckle terri, we've all been there I think.
OMG the sock gremlin is alive and extremely well in our household ;)
....but I do happen to have the opposite of a gremlin travelling with me a lot. He's the "a space in the car park that you thought was completely full has suddenly appeared" imp. If I relax and concentrate a little on thinking that a space may be there, it often suddenly is, often because someone decides to leave.
whooooowheee :D
I think you've managed to train you r gremlin by the sound of it Philomel, perhaps it's thinking posative vibes that does it :-)
So right Sue :)
The cup half full etc...
Well just send him round here Philomel :) LOL
Perhaps he can train the Gremlin who set off the smoke alarm in the middle of the night and sent us into a mad panic when there wasn't so much as a whiff of smoke in the entire neighbourhood (and it wasn't the 'low battery' warning either.) Imagine going from room to room sniffing for the least smidgen of smoke at 2am only to find not so much as a whiff...what's WITH these gremlins???
Terri1948
Oh, that was a horrible one!
:(
I'd love to share him - not sure why he's visiting, but he came in very useful again this morning LOL :D
you saying about that smoke alarm going off reminded me a story about when we had a burglar alarm system installed in our old houise.
It started going off in the middle of the night, hubby tried to leap ou of bed, got his foot wrapped up in the duvet and fell on the floor, writhing around trying to get free, getting even more tangled up.
I leapt out my side , tripped on my slippers and sprawled on the other half of the bedroom.
By the time we picked ourselves up.and sorted it all out, I'm sure that if there had been intruders, they'd have had time to load up most of our posessions, smoked a fag, and driven off into the sunset.
Apparently it turned out that the stair sensors were set too sensative.After a couple of more false alarms, we had them disconnected.
It sure does give you a fright though when you get woken with a start like that .I dread the smoke alarm going off, in fact I hate hearing anything beeping, pinging in the night.
Oh my!!!!!! I can just imagine that kerfuffle Sue :D ROFL
My sister made me laugh when I told her about it because she told me of a time when they were woken by something in the middle of the night. Feeling sure it was intruders her big, brave husband leapt out of bed and grabbed the nearest thing he could find to a weapon to arm himself with....his SLIPPER!!!!!!!! Well, I suppose he could have slapped the burgler around a bit with it.
We never did find out what set off our smoke alarm but the following night our full length mirror, which is hanging at the top of the stairs and is very heavy, came off the wall and fell with an almighty thud. Strange thing was that it didn't break (thank goodness!) First time it's ever done that and it's been hanging there for around 10 years. The next night we were on tenderhooks wondering what was going to happen during the night. Glad to report we've had nothing happen since.
Terri1948
Men don't always think logically do they...mind you, just the sight of one of us in our undies creeping downstairs should put off even the most ardent burgler!...:-0