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is there any labourer builder Plummer electrician ECT.
who has worked for the elderly or disable for free.
if you have, you have my upmost admiration.

Being retired I do a lot of work in the local community. I have made wheelchair ramps, handrails, stairs and done various repairs for just the cost of materials or in some cases blagging the materials from local builders. I also run the Patients group at the medical centre and sit on several NHS committees. At my local football club, Whitehawk FC, I do all the maintenance work, although they do give me a free season ticket every year. Giving back to the community is not just a slogan if you have the time you should pitch in.

Mikero

Taking paid jobs from others, disgraceful.

Worked for 4 years in a primary school part time helping year five and six with their SATs. Unpaid but very rewarding.

dOh Nut wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2019 11:19 am Worked for 4 years in a primary school part time helping year five and six with their SATs. Unpaid but very rewarding.

I am thinking of doing something like this, but hopefully with year 10-13 students, when I get the time to retire!

dOh Nut wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2019 11:19 am Worked for 4 years in a primary school part time helping year five and six with their SATs. Unpaid but very rewarding.

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LittleMate wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2019 11:35 am

dOh Nut wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2019 11:19 am Worked for 4 years in a primary school part time helping year five and six with their SATs. Unpaid but very rewarding.

I am thinking of doing something like this, but hopefully with year 10-13 students, when I get the time to retire!

Year 10-13 is a tough gig. Not too sure I’d be up to that. Plus subjects change as the years go by. Even with SATs I had to learn different ways of doing stuff.

dOh Nut wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2019 1:26 pm

LittleMate wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2019 11:35 am

dOh Nut wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2019 11:19 am Worked for 4 years in a primary school part time helping year five and six with their SATs. Unpaid but very rewarding.

I am thinking of doing something like this, but hopefully with year 10-13 students, when I get the time to retire!

Year 10-13 is a tough gig. Not too sure I’d be up to that. Plus subjects change as the years go by. Even with SATs I had to learn different ways of doing stuff.

Would you old gits just retire and stop doing jobs that proper teachers should be getting paid for. Youse have had your day.

Max B Gold wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2019 11:36 am

dOh Nut wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2019 11:19 am Worked for 4 years in a primary school part time helping year five and six with their SATs. Unpaid but very rewarding.

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Mainly maths Max. Sometimes English, history and geography but to be honest I had to refresh this but not too demanding at that level. The biggest thing was getting used to the methods used to help the children. Methods focus on their understanding of ones, tens, hundreds etc so, for example, multiplication broke down numbers before starting. Long winded but better for youngsters apparently.

My focus often was helping one-to-one the children who struggled with maths. Believe it or not I have endless patience with youngsters struggling with stuff and the feeling when they passed was awesome, nothing like it.

F**k me. Can you imagine being a 10 year old kid at school, struggling to keep pace with your mates, and they send in dohnut to sort your maths out? Poor little sods.

RedO wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2019 1:59 pm F**k me. Can you imagine being a 10 year old kid at school, struggling to keep pace with your mates, and they send in dohnut to sort your maths out? Poor little sods.

Not to put too finer point on it that comment is fecking stupid.

I have far less patience with supposed adults who should know better than with children struggling with their sums.

Thatchers Government promised an open economy for all buisness people .

How sad it is that a man skilled in his choice of career, feels the need to bring balance to such bad practice & the mistreatment of the Elderly.

How far we have progressed .

Capitalism Fail of the highest order !

dOh Nut wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2019 2:05 pm

RedO wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2019 1:59 pm F**k me. Can you imagine being a 10 year old kid at school, struggling to keep pace with your mates, and they send in dohnut to sort your maths out? Poor little sods.

Not to put too finer point on it that comment is fecking stupid.

I have far less patience with supposed adults who should know better than with children struggling with their sums.

It's 'too fine a point'. Even a 10 year old should know that.

"Taking paid jobs from others, disgraceful."

How petty of you, these jobs would not be done because the people concerned cannot afford commercial prices even if you could find anyone who wanted to do them.

Mikero

"Would you old gits just retire and stop doing jobs that proper teachers should be getting paid for. Youse have had your day."

Thats why I packed up teaching Maxie, leaving the mountains of paperwork to the 'proper' teachers.

Mikero

I’m all for teachers and assistants getting decent pay. Especially as my daughter is one now. But it seems, certainly in the junior school I worked, they positively encouraged people to get involved. Sometimes just to listen to the children read, sometimes as with me to help out with lessons. A community sort of thing to get people involved and interested. Nothing wrong with that, healthy.

Not taking anybodies job. Just an extra pair of hands willing and able to provide a tad more for the children. And at no extra cost. I felt privileged to be able to help.

dOh Nut wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2019 4:19 pm I’m all for teachers and assistants getting decent pay. Especially as my daughter is one now. But it seems, certainly in the junior school I worked, they positively encouraged people to get involved. Sometimes just to listen to the children read, sometimes as with me to help out with lessons. A community sort of thing to get people involved and interested. Nothing wrong with that, healthy.

Not taking anybodies job. Just an extra pair of hands willing and able to provide a tad more for the children. And at no extra cost. I felt privileged to be able to help.

I'm hoping that this open school were putting in necessary checks and not just letting all and sundry in for 1 to 1s with struggling kids?

RedO wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2019 4:46 pm

dOh Nut wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2019 4:19 pm I’m all for teachers and assistants getting decent pay. Especially as my daughter is one now. But it seems, certainly in the junior school I worked, they positively encouraged people to get involved. Sometimes just to listen to the children read, sometimes as with me to help out with lessons. A community sort of thing to get people involved and interested. Nothing wrong with that, healthy.

Not taking anybodies job. Just an extra pair of hands willing and able to provide a tad more for the children. And at no extra cost. I felt privileged to be able to help.

I'm hoping that this open school were putting in necessary checks and not just letting all and sundry in for 1 to 1s with struggling kids?

That is a good point. During my time there the checks went from the simple criminal records check to one that also included immediate family members. Thorough and rightly so. I was fully briefed in H&S and other requirements including how to deal with tactile children and signed a declaration that I had read and understood the contents. In addition one-to-one sessions were conducted in full view of other people, both as a precaution for the child and indeed for the helper. I was made fully aware of the risks to teachers too, from a malicious child. Very professionally handled.

Max B Gold wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2019 11:36 am

dOh Nut wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2019 11:19 am Worked for 4 years in a primary school part time helping year five and six with their SATs. Unpaid but very rewarding.

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As in the clown thing?

Disoriented wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2019 10:36 pm

Max B Gold wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2019 11:36 am

dOh Nut wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2019 11:19 am Worked for 4 years in a primary school part time helping year five and six with their SATs. Unpaid but very rewarding.

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As in the clown thing?

I’m in a drain near you.