The literature of this "portfolio" is a combination of music journal entries and DAPHA Projects journals done by Daryl Ali.
It is a digital account of his life experiences, works of many and accomplishments.
Actual Date of Online
Entry: (Saturday 5th November 2022)
Dear
Diary,
Today
was the first working day for St. George’s College at the University of Trinidad
and Tobago (UTT) campus in Valsayn. The rain caused a lot of flooding that
morning and the maxis were not there in the stand. Daddy and I walked back to
the taxi stand in Curepe and we got a car. A lady told me in the car that she ran
back to tell us that the maxis came but she took the car with me. Going down
they spoke about Halloween and I remembered it was the last day of October.
When
I got to the gates of the UTT compound, the security wrote my name in their
book. It was different information than in Barataria. I had to ask the guard for
the time to transfer into the OJT attendance log. I wrote the time into my orange
diary first before the OJT log as usual.
Sitting
at my desk in the administration office, the noise was the first thing to go
through with teachers and others coming in and out of the heavy glass door. It
was day six so I did not have classes as well as the rest of the school. I did
not understand why we were asked to come out to the campus so quickly when it
did not seem prepared for classes.
Miss
Roberts came into the office late to sign. We walked around the campus to find
the second staffroom in Block K and later we went to the music room to see the
layout. When we got there, people were still working in the room and they had
placed some tables and chairs in the room. It took up space and we wondered how
the steelpan instruments would fit in the space to the back. All of the tables
and chairs were cramped up to the front and we didn’t know what to do with the
rest of the room.
Some
long minutes after, the principal came into the room with another lady to check
the music room. I soon found out without asking that the lady was the school’s
supervisor. I had never met a school supervisor before but the conversation was
nice. I walked Miss Roberts back to her desk and got my bags to go back to the
administration office. She said she had a meeting and I asked to see her later
for some help.
I
went and started to have lunch and started to work on a bus shuttle form. Miss
Gittens had messaged me minutes going to five in the morning to help her make a
list to check the students go on the bus. We had spoken about this earlier this
morning before school started. As we spoke about it, the teachers’ subject
register I had made over was coming to mind. I Miss Gittens that I could
make a form for the entire month with large columns and they will have spaces
for the five days of the week. I saw the smile come to her and she said she
liked the idea.
I
got the laptop turned on and opened up the teachers’ subject register and used
the Forms 4 to Upper 6 version. I was glad that it did not take long to do but
I did not know how many students needed to be filled into the tables. It was no
longer two tables for boys and girls but just a continuous table. I was able to
get a list of the names from Miss Patel and Miss Sawh when they saw what I made
for them.
It
was only the night after working hours, and I had made two sets of lists. I was not
sure which one they would have preferred to use. The first set was two
documents that had a lot of rows in case there were more students to add in.
The second set of two lists was concise and used less paper. There were two emails
sent to the three teachers for both sets. Miss Gittens had liked them. For the
two of us, the concise one might not have been so visually appealing.
In
the last thirty minutes before school finished, I got my way back to Block K to
work on the melody for the college song. The ‘children’ in the staffroom were
noisy as usual. Miss Roberts and I tried really hard to listen to the video
with the children in the video singing the St. George’s College song. The
second verse had a change in only one measure. I was glad that the review went
by in that short space of time.
I
got a ride with Miss Libert up to Curepe and I got to create thirteen multiple-choice
questions as we waited twelve minutes in traffic getting out of the UTT compound.
Some more waiting on the main road to get there I shared with her the Temporary
Mark Sheet that I had made for myself. She said that she would love to use it
so I sent a PDF copy to her later after doing the two sets of forms for the Bus
Shuttles. We also spoke about the time at St. George’s and Google classroom
before getting out.
Actual Date of Online
Entry: (Monday 24th October 2022)
Dear
Diary,
Today
not much was done. A lot of the teachers in the staffroom took time to old-talk
and make noise. I had some work being done during the day. When I got there at
school, I sat down and had my breakfast. I met Miss Phillip and we got a box
for Miss Roberts.
In
the manner that the teachers were using masking tape to tape up their boxes, I
did not wait much longer. I was hoping that Miss Roberts would have shown up to
the school to help her in case she wanted her things to be packed a certain
way. Thankfully when I started packing, she came immediately and we packed up
her thing. I had four long pieces of masking tape that had her name and “staff”
written on them to stick on her desk, chair, box, and glass covering of her
desk.
When
we were done with that activity, she told me something important. I remained back
in school for the day afterwards working on the Tunapuna Secondary's School Song.
I was angry because some unbelievable chords were not even chords used in the
piano part. I was only able to finish the rest of the chorus by the time I got
home. Luckily, a lot of it was coping and pasting from there. I saw Miss Harris enjoyed the table and chair a lot again today.
Actual Date of Online
Entry: (Monday 24th October 2022)
Dear
Diary,
Today
I felt bad. For me, it had been two weeks since I had not done much like many
of us in the staffroom. I stayed with Miss Roberts in the music room doing more
of her recording of the students.
It
was only last minute that she asked me to type out her listing of students to
register for the SanFest competition. I wished she had asked me to do it
earlier so we could have had more time to check it through.
This
listing became a DAPHA Project and my logo was inserted onto the sheets. Miss
Roberts did not want it to be a table layout as in the form I made for her earlier.
She showed me how the competition people wanted the information. I was still
able to create a neat-looking document for all of the categories the students
were entering. It was incomplete because there would have had to be more visual
arts students to send in their information.
Miss
Roberts and I both finished our day after three in the afternoon. I was finished
just in time and the rain came down. She left school after I emailed her the
work and I went to the staffroom. Everyone was gone. Only a few other teachers
remained and the tables were empty. I saw that they had their tables labelled
with masking tape so I got some and labelled my desk and chairs. I only got to
have my first meal for the day at that time. The rain came down with thunder
again. Got a little wet in the drizzle but by the time I was on my way home,
the sun came out brighter before the day’s end.
That
night, I got a new software called Anthem score. I was able to continue working
on the Tunapuna Secondary School Song. It gave me a PDF of the music it was
able to get. Unfortunately, the Musescore was not able to do its job by
scanning the PDF to make it an actual file. I had to use what was provided to me
by the Anthem Score software and use it as suggestions. Much of the results were
not so useable. At the end of my work for the night, the introduction and the
first verse were completed.
Link(s):
St.
George’s (2022 SanFest) Choir – “Jireh”.
St.
George’s (2022 SanFest) – Registration Listings.
Actual Date of Online
Entry: (Monday 24th October 2022)
Dear
Diary,
The
staff members had to meet at the University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT) in
Valsayn for eight that morning. Some of the other teachers were there when I
got to the site at 7:39. Daddy walked me in by the gate and then went back
home. I walked in to stay with the teachers gathered there under a cool tree. We
were not allowed the buildings as yet. I did not have on my usual office
clothing because I knew it was a lot of sweating to be done. I’m glad I made
that decision.
When
the caretaker sent the drivers to park at the back some of us went to walk
around until we found the hall. Everyone came into the area and around 8:30 we
had the meeting which was started by Dr Sookdeo. We had a short meeting there and
then a tour of the campus. The two tall buildings had two upper floors. Miss
Santana kept me company walking around the area.
The
allocated space for the music room was at the end of block six. I was a bit
shocked when I walked into the area. It had a nice office space but had a restroom
inside the area too. It was a bit strange to see that.
There
was a longer continuation of the meeting in the hall once the tour was done. We
had a lot of fallouts in it and unsettling conversations. I was wondering if
Miss Roberts would come but I thought she would be back at school working with
the choir and the students doing solos for the SanFest competition.
When
I got back to school, I signed the attendance at the time that I was present on
the UTT site. I then went over to the music room to join the others. I helped
out with all recordings for the day. The choir had their final rehearsal for the
recording to submit.
Actual Date of Online
Entry: (Monday 24th October 2022)
Dear
Diary,
This
morning daddy’s phone was giving the usual call trouble. I heard the phone ringing
again while walking down to St. George’s. I thought it was his phone calling
again. I was so wrong. I also had that particular painful ‘walking issue’ again
today.
When
I got onto the pavement alongside the school, I saw the choir members inside the
school’s compound. They were waiting near the closed pedestrian gate. I went to
sign and then called them to take them down to the music room.
By
the time we were inside the room, I got a call from Miss Roberts and got upset
one time. I understood why she was upset too as she spoke to me but I wasn’t in
a position to twist my ankle for a second day and also to have a long period to
clean mud off my shoes a second day. We all waited in the music room for a
while.
Miss
Roberts showed up at 9:08 and they started choir immediately. The choir was not
ready for rehearsal and there was a short warm-up exercise done.
1.Shoulder Rollings: backwards (x8 times). Then
frontwards.
2.Shoulder Squeezes: Up but not tight for five
seconds. Then back.
3.Neck Twists: Look to the left and hold (x2
times). Then the right.
4.Chin Pointing: Point the chin up lightly to the
roof. Then chin tucked into the chest.
5.Cheek Rubbing: Massage by the ball part of the
fingers. (Forward a few times the back slowly.)
6.‘Rare’: (Like a short howl or
screeching sound done twice.)
7.Arpeggio Warm-ups 1: Starting from E3 moving up in chromatic
order. Then backwards. Altos begin and stop when uncomfortable. The sopranos
will start where they are capable of singing.
8.Arpeggio Warm-ups 2: Starting from E3 moving up in chromatic
order. The choir members will sing the syllable ‘ma’ from the pitch to the fifth
in ascending direction. In the descending, sing ‘ma’ from the pitch as the
dominant and downward to the perfect fifth.
Sometime
after the choir was on recess, I got to explain why I wasn’t able to answer the
phone. This work continued for the entire morning. Then there was some work
with the solos for SanFest. I was asked to assist with recordings for some of
the students.
Actual Date of Online
Entry: (Sunday 18th
December 2022)
Dear
Diary,
The
following sectioned entries below will detail the occurrences and activities
relating to the creation of the Tunapuna Secondary School’s Song.
FIRST TIME MEETING MR J. RAMASAR.
** Monday 17th October 2022. **
[St. George’s College (Week 5) –
Day #17]
This morning I was supposed to go to join the
teachers in the staffroom for a meeting about the concerns of the school’s
danger to everyone. It was a long day with the morning meeting for heads to go
to the University of the Trinidad and Tobago (UTT) site and the continuation
site in the evening.
Sitting at my desk in the staffroom at 10:12am, I got a Messenger text from a new Facebook friend name John. He was
someone I did not know at the time. After the long and tiring day, we did not speak for
much until later that night.
During our conversation via text from 6:43 to
7:06 pm, he had asked for assistance in music notation. It was to score the
Tunapuna Secondary School song. I learned that there was no existing music notation for the song. It reminded me of my first time hearing the anthems for Hillview,
Vessigny and St. George’s.
I was told that there was something done that he
met there when starting to work at the school. It was a recording of the song
with a lady singing and someone playing a keyboard. While listening to it, I
knew that a lead sheet would have been necessary before beginning to transcribe
that entire song. I was surprised by the length and wondered how the students
would learn it. I suppose it is the same as Vessigny. I just at the time hoped
it would not have taken forever like the Vessigny steelpan arrangement.
As soon as John was approving the lead sheet, I
asked him for the name of the persons responsible for the text/lyrics (Amanda
Jagassar), melody (Juliet Robin) and the name of the school song. I
was told that the name of the song was “Our School Song”. I recalled seeing
that in their school’s anniversary magazine in the newspapers some months ago.
I did not agree with it as a name for the song but didn’t comment.
I was given a snapshot of the school song’s
lyrics. That would have been helpful to me in creating the lead sheet. Before
our conversation concluded, I learned that Dr Mohammed had referred him to me
about notating the music.
This evening was kind of my first face-to-face
meeting with John on Zoom. We did not chat much at first but got straight into
the music topic of the evening. I was the one that created the link so I shared
my screen and showed him the lead sheet first.
I mentioned that the text was difficult to interpret during
the chorus section. I did not know if all of the chorus sections were “thy
light HAS come” or “thy light IS come” since they were not exact. The melody
and piano accompaniment version was five pages in length. The playing was done
and we spoke some more about it. As I did for St. George's and Hillview, I also
had to ask for a copy of the school’s logo that will decorate the score.
As part of the conversation, I also added a share
of what I had done for St. George’s anthem and Vessigny’s anthem. Then I moved
the attention from the three to Hillview’s College song on YouTube. I did offer
John to make a YouTube video of their school song but had mentioned that if the
principal had given his or her approval, I would continue to work on that.
A little before my presentations for that one
meeting were over, I shared with John a short view of the results from a new
software I downloaded called Anthem Score on Thursday 20th October
2022. As I had expected, there would have been a huge mess created. I was
consulting with John during the week about the chords used in the piano part
and he too found them to be very confusing.
While I was busy trying to strictly notate what
was being done in the music, I had forgotten about listening to the music and
allowing it to tell me what it wanted. I found it to be much easier as I used
it this way. I’m glad that the music spoke to me. I was also forced to make
some negotiations as expected and sooner than expected too I was done with the
piece.
When my meeting ended with John (7:30 pm), I took the same lead sheet and began working on the
steelpan version of the same school song. I felt like it was too much work to
do but I did not entertain that feeling. I continued working on the arrangement because I know of the
special importance it will serve later on. My work for the night ended at 9:00
pm.
Link(s):
Vocal
Score with Piano Acc. [Available by Email.]
Anthem
Score Results: Voice & Piano Acc. **
STEELPAN ARRANGEMENT (V1).
** Sunday 23rd October 2022.
**
At 9:00 pm the last night, I was able to complete
the introduction of the song which was four measures in four-four times. The
verse was not difficult at all to create a strumming pattern. I ended up
ignoring all that was given in the recording of the singing lady and the
confusing piano part. Instead, I did what I wanted and chose to bring it to
life like Vessigny’s anthem and St. George’s anthem.
Additionally, I was very pleased that the same
strumming patterns for the verse could have been reused for the chorus. It
reduced more work to be done and they were copied and pasted in immediately.
Verse three on the other hand presented more
challenges because it was different from the other verses. A new strumming
pattern had to be made for the double tenors and double seconds, and the
Guitars and Cellos.
LOGO/CREST.
** Monday 24th October 2022.
**
In my previous work with St. George’s, I felt
that it was necessary and satisfactory to have the Tunapuna Secondary School logo
inserted into the scores that I had created. Unfortunately, as time went by
from the date above all the way to the end of the team, no logo was given to
me. I had to source the same image from Google. This image was not a proper or
official one.
On Tuesday 6th December 2022, I saved the image and
edited and cleaned it myself. The file format was changed for the insertion of
the image into the Musescore file.
SCHOOL’S SONG BOOKLETS.
** Tuesday 13th December 2022.
**
Last
night I had all the materials to make Tunapuna’s Song sent to print by ISA. I
decided to make a book for them as I did for St. George’s with all the parts
for the steelpan arrangement and the vocal piece with piano accompaniment
previously completed.
In
addition, I decided that it would be good to insert copies of all the parts of
the national anthem I had done for “PanChile” some weeks ago. I heard that they
were starting a steelband trial for the first time and knew that as a steelband
in Hillview, the college song and national anthem were the two most crucial pieces
above all other repertoires.
FIRST MEETINGS & ACQUAINTANCES.
** Wednesday 14th December
2022. **
This morning was an early one. I had a nice
surprise visit from Mr Ramasar (at 11:28) for a while until our conversation
was then continued in the Tunapuna Secondary School’s compound. It was my first
step into the compound. I was very excited. My view of the school was only the
back entrance by my home.
The environment was quite different but standing
in the car park, gave me that same calm and welcoming feeling that St. George’s
presented me all these years. I was asked to sign the guard’s book shortly
after.
It felt like I was definitely going to school. I
carried my bookbag with the booklets and my laptop with the bag in my hand. I
met the Principal and Vice Principal for the first time some minutes after
setting up my laptop in the waiting area. I had the vocal piece with piano
accompaniment opened first to play for them and explained that this was the
work requested of me to do.
Immediately after the vocal and piano version, I
had the steelpan version waiting. None of the three had heard this one before.
I explained my reason and importance and then played it for them. I
found a bigger, better feeling from the steelpan one after playing the vocal and
piano one. Even though I have heard the steelpan version many times before the
meeting, I think we were all surprised by the way the rhythmic introduction
came in. The chorus was way nicer. We enjoyed it.
Once the steelpan version was completed, I got out my plastic bag with the booklets. It was another surprise I had for them. They
were already sorted so that I would distribute them. I mentioned that the
books were gifts to the school via a particular area or office within the
compound and not to a specific person. They understood.
The last and eleventh book remaining in my bookbag
was left with Principal for Miss Robin who composed the melody. One book was
given to the Principal’s Office. One book was given to the Vice Principal’s office.
Three books were sent to the Music Room. Three books were sent to the library
for archival and safeguarding. The final two books were given to the
Administration Office.
In my view, as the Form One version as a Hillview
student, I can now feel satisfied that notation in every necessary way for the
school song is created and is available to anyone. It would be easily accessible
throughout the school and no longer scarce.
YOUTUBE VIDEO.
** Monday 21 August 2023 **
This afternoon I decided to put
together the arrangement and photographs that I was given on my visit to the
school into a YouTube video. There were six recordings done. Unfortunately, after
six attempts, the quality of the visuals was still not pleasing. I am glad that
this project is finally completed after an entire academic year of waiting. In
addition, I hope that it provides a useful tool in assisting the students to
learn their school song.
Actual Date of Online
Entry: (Monday 24th October 2022)
Dear
Diary,
Today
I got up and hurried down the road to get to St. George’s. I was excited
because we were going to have a meeting with the school supervisor. I had never
met one before. I heard Jesse’s mom call me out from their house window. I
couldn’t hear most of her questions. At some point, I had to leave and go into
the school’s compound.
Entering
the staff room, some of the teachers were already there. We were all waiting
and talking about the meeting. I still had a lot of time to wait before the
bell for school to ‘commence’. I sat in the hall and took in the calm
feeling that the school always gave me. I was happy to see what some of the past principals' pictures handing on the wall but the Mitchell one was missing.
We
had a short briefing from Dr Sookdeo. She said that the school was unsafe for the
students and that it would cost a lot of money to fix the whole school. They
were looking for a new place for us to host the school. The heads of
departments were off to the new venue for a look and all of us remained in the
staffroom for the rest of the day.
During all that time, many of the teachers were restless in the staffroom. It was nice that the day was rainy to keep the environment cool. That same morning around 10:12 am, I got a Facebook Messenger message from someone asking for assistance in writing some music. I was very insecure about sharing my phone number but I sent it anyway to see what help they needed. (A separate entry for this was made. See the link below.)
Miss
Roberts returned with everyone and we had a late meeting. They were supposed to
get back to school at 1:10 pm to have the meeting. It began twenty minutes
later than expected and everyone was tired and restless in the staffroom all day.
I spent the day working on teaching notes for another lesson plan.
Actual Date of Online
Entry: (Monday 24th October 2022)
Dear
Diary,
Today
1M was the first to get the answers to review the worksheet. Some
email replies were still coming in from two days ago and the other two classes.
I’m gonna have to have a nice chat about that when the next scheduled time
comes for them.
More
of the lesson plans continued. I was able to do four lessons for the second
term this week. Hopefully, by the weekend I would get to do some more or maybe
finish that term and be typing them up.
Actual Date of Online
Entry: (Monday 24th October 2022)
Dear
Diary,
Today
I was sooooo very late. That extra hour on the bed felt good that I
awoke from the last phone screaming at 7:30. I darted into the shower and got
the computer started minutes after eight. This was probably the latest so far.
I
had music with 1M for periods one and two. The same
issue with emails occurred. Some were not in service and parents gave their contacts instead of the students. Now all the
Form Ones had the worksheet; I hoped.
That
night, I constructed the answer sheet because I did not want to wait for the
morning and have the class waiting. I was glad that the information fitted on one sheet of letter-sized paper. Since there were two classes for the day, I
spent both emails one after the next. The evening was used for taking attendance on the new register sheets that I made.
Actual Date of Online
Entry: (Monday 24th October 2022)
Dear
Diary,
The
school’s email told us that today was day one. I spent some time yesterday
coming up with a worksheet for my Form One students to do in the absence of our
class. We also had a departmental meeting that started at 8:30 and then at
10:30 right after there was a staff meeting also on Zoom. VAPA and Languages were grouped together.
I
did not get the link to the first meeting on time so I took the time to write
up the email for the students. I was not sure exactly what I would say in that first email as a
‘teacher’ but I thought about it a lot and gave it my best. Only later in the evening, I was harshly disappointed with myself
when I did not ask the student to reply with their names and Form class. It would have been the only way to
count attendance. I still have to find out who had working emails. Some were
from parents and not students.
In
the staff meeting, we had a short wait and then a prayer was said. Some events
that occurred cannot be recorded here in the journal. We heard from some of the
teachers present in school that the corridors were not very safe and some of
them were leaking. I had a very weird feeling from one of the school’s five
emails over the days about us having to be present in the staffroom and not
being able to teach. Daddy’s response to it was true in a way.
The
meeting concluded at 1:40. At one o’clock, I was having my lunch at the dining
table still wondering about everything and listening to the meeting. I fell
flat on the couch afterwards. It was a lot to take in.
Actual Date of Online
Entry: (Sunday 9th October 2022)
Dear
Diary,
This
morning I had the music room opened. As usual, I would turn on the light in the
pan room and adjust the air conditioning for when the students come. I would do
the same in the music classroom and then straighten up the chairs in
preparation for the day of class.
Miss
Roberts still had her books of stuff on the desk to look at or teaching books
that were supposed to be on the inventory list. I was able to resource the
Trinity Grade 1 piano book and sight-read fifteen measures of a piece. It had
the word legend in it. The weather changed rapidly into the night and heavy
rain burst down.
The
two of us were taking the new inventory list of the equipment and furniture
that was for the music classroom and the steelpan room. I had offered her to
write it when she said that her handwriting wasn’t that good. We spent a long
while trying to figure out where the stands and books went. Instead, we made a
new list in the school’s book for what was there and Miss Roberts gave me the
job to create a list for both rooms. I felt really special getting to write in the school's book.
I
recall one of the ladies that came suggested we printed a list of it and had it
stuck on the walls in both rooms. The colours for that form were decorated in
the school colours red, green, and blue. I wanted Miss Roberts to check over the list but she had to take it by email to leave school.
During
lunchtime, I was approached by two students at my table in the music room. It was a boy and a
girl and they had brought me a lovely. I did not read it until near the end of lunchtime.
It was most appreciated. There was a very short presentation done by three upper-six
Music students. I did get an opportunity to give feedback and comments too on
their practice after Miss Roberts.
The
Form 1F class was not fully there. The majority had already gotten
parents to take them home because of the weather and we decided to cancel the class.
The whole school had emptied out and the remaining students were in the hall. We
only had three minutes until 2:30. Aunty Vangy had come to pick me up and I got
to share with her and Adrianne the card that the students gave me. The rain did not come down
until the next morning.
Actual Date of Online
Entry: (Sunday 9 October 2022)
Dear
Diary,
This
morning I got a ride with Aunty Vangy. I was afraid of getting soaked down in
the rain that was supposed to be coming. I also wanted to carry down the small
table that I had at home because I wanted to stay away from the staffroom as
much as possible to avoid any argument or conflict concerning that table. We
let security know that I was keeping the table in the school. It was a new
record for reaching on time.
I
had some trouble with the wifi at school. Only at home, I was able to get the
document open. Miss Roberts wanted me to check something for her. When I got to
school that morning, I met some men painting the walls on our building block.
It had filled up the music room.
Also,
there were some persons from the Ministry of Education that came into the music
room to check our inventory. Miss Roberts had already sent her Form Fives out
of the steelpan room because the pain was filling up both rooms. I turned off
the air conditioning units and turned on the electronic fans in the room. It
cooled down soon after.
While
the persons were interrogating Miss Roberts, I left to go to the office hoping
that the wifi would send me the document she wanted me to look through. I was
finally able to get a list of all the students to take attendance for the
classes conducted thus far.
By
the time I returned, I went and sat on a chair along the corridor far from
where they were painting with the Form Fives. I had to dismiss them myself when
the bell rang. I told them it was better to go off to which class and avoid
being late as the third period started. They agreed and left packing up. I
returned to the music classroom.
In
the afternoon I had a double period for seventh and eighth with Form One
Leacock. They were a bit easier to wrestle. Unfortunately, on a day as such
Miss Roberts had a large class that needed to take them to the Music Room. I
had to be in school under the supervision of Miss Patel or someone else that
was assigned to me.
We
did not have a piano and I did not remember asking to get the keyboard to use
in the classroom. I had to leave the short singing exercise for the next double
period that we would be in the music room. The class ended about five minutes
before school was over.
Actual Date of Online
Entry: (Sunday 08 October 2022)
Dear
Diary,
I
came in early and Miss Roberts entered the music sometime after assembly. It
was nice to see her after the time she was away from school. She seemed better
than last Thursday when we spoke. When we spoke at her table there was a form
that she wanted me to make for her. It was a form for students taking part in
the San Fest Competition in the various categories they wanted to enter.
The
form took a double period (3rd & 4th) to create during her Upper Six Music
class. It was not difficult at all to do. I selected legal-sized paper for the
list and wrote out the information Miss Roberts wanted. The three girls were
preparing for a presentation as part of their School Based Assessment (SBA). I
also had some input in it while sitting at the back of the classroom to access
a plug for the laptop charger.
That
morning I had a double period with 1M. The students told me that
the timetable had been changed and I was given a double period of music with
them. I was glad because I now did not have to divide the lesson in half for
tomorrow but teach the entire second lesson. It was better that way for me.
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