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Posted by Rose Sal Volatile Parade (U4705648) on Saturday, 10th February 2007
Does anyone know?
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They changed from those she originally chose when deciding to leave St Mags and go to college. She will definitely be doing maths (because she is applying for engineering). Physics is usually regarded as desirable but is not usually insisted on by most engineering courses these days. Psychology was the one she chose which couldn't be covered by St Mags. I think she is doing either economics or a design related one, too. Perm 3 from the above. (Keri did give us a definitive list a little while ago.)
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Posted by Rose Sal Volatile Parade (U4705648) on Saturday, 10th February 2007
Thanks, Mike.
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I doubt the veracity of what mike says. I amfairly certain that the A level subjects chosen by Alice at Borchester Tech include Maths, Philospohy (not Psychology), Spanish and Technical Drawing,
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Maths, Physics, Design Technology and Psychology.
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and is she carrying all 4 on to A2 level? I had to give up my non-essential Physics in case i dropped one of my more important grades...
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What's design technology?
Spleen xx
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It's a mixture of CDT, home economics, cookery, woodwork, metalwork, technical drawing and crafts.
Well, that'd primary School national Curriculum, prolly different at A-level.
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At A level I think DT would be some sort of amalgam between engineering, technical drawing, woodwork, metalwork and plasticswork (I made this word up - I do hope it doesn't already exist). Food Technology and Textiles are separate A level subjects. At GCSE there is a subject called Resistant Materials which seems to be the -work bits above. A level DT covers more of the design process and bits of electronics, I think. This is judging by things we saw during our Grand Tour of the secondary schools of SE London a couple of years ago, when we were looking for a school for Master D.
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Posted by Reggie Trentham (U2746099) on Monday, 12th February 2007
One of my children did something very similar to this at Standard Grade, it consisted of a bit of TD, a bit of engineering at a bit of model building (metal, wood, plastic or a combination) as far as I remember.
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was alice born with downs syndrome?i have some vague memory of this.
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No. There may have been some talk of tests when Jennifer was pregnant, but Alice doesn't have Downs Syndrome. I know lots of people with Downs are achieving far more now than in the old days when they were written off, but as far as I'm aware nobody with Downs would be able to do the high level academic work Alice is doing now. Very happy to be corrected if I'm wrong.
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from TBOTA:
"They decided to have another baby, hoping it would bring them closer together, although wary of the risks of Jennifer having a baby in her forties. After an uncomfortable pregnancy it was a relief when Alice, a healthy little girl was born in 1988, but Brian was bitterly disappointed, as he wanted son."
Draggers is quite right - they had a test, but I think amniocentisis was fairly newish in those days, and thee was a 'probably not Down's' result. I remember it was very angst-ridden, but Alice definitely hasn't got Down's Syndrome.
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Alice a mongrel - get real!
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Posted by Reggie Trentham (U2746099) on Tuesday, 13th February 2007
Before Mrs. T had our daughter, in her late thirties, in 1984 she was offered amniocentisis so it must have been in fairly common use by 1988.
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Maths, Physics, Design Technology and Psychology.Â
What grades did she get in her AS levels?
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Was it ABBA?
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All As, I think. Jennifer was insufferably smug about it but even faced with this incontrtovertible evidence that Alice was going to do well at Borchester College in spite of consorting with Neanderthals, Brian was very grudging.
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La Regissima, if you were actually aiming for the word mongol, I think you should be aware that this hasn't been an acceptable word for people with Down's Syndrome for several decades now. It's an emotionally loaded word which was often used as a term of abuse. Best avoided, surely?
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Posted by Reggie Trentham (U2746099) on Tuesday, 13th February 2007
Dragonfly, you do know this is mince pie anyone just trying to be provocative don't you? Best ignored.
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Right-o, another one to scroll past/catpee as required. Thanks, Reggie.
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At GCSE there is a subject called Resistant Materials which seems to be the -work bits above.Â
I like the idea of 'resistant materials'. It conjures up visions of a red-faced schoolboy shouting at a lump of metal 'Turn into a toasting fork damn you!'. I made a carp toasting fork when I was at school.
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That sounds extremely useful, Old Lag! Excellent on camping holidays, I imagine.
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Ha ha I fell about laughing at that one!!!!!!!!!!
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Mmm, even now, the taste of freshly caught carp, toasted over the open fire, comes back to me...
Actually, the prongs (tines?) were so broad and blunt, you had to physically hold the bread on the thing, which rather defeated the object of not getting your fingers burned. Happy days.
OL
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Posted by blue_rememberedhills (U4927627) on Tuesday, 13th February 2007
My brother made one too - circa 1967 - I don't think we ever used it. As you say, the tines were so broad that the bread wouldn't stay on. And we always made toast under the grill anyway.
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Yes I believe this is a Blairite term to cover what used to be woodwork and metalwork but also allows for things like plastic.
Personally I don't see this as being Alice's "bag": but what do I know?
bob
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It was some other test more advanced than amniocentesis = CVS I think - how do I remember this after 18 years!
anyway ggole is wonderful CVS stands for Chorionic Villus sampling
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