Covid up – support sessions where students have not read the requirement – car back in tomorrow

Covid cases are up again across all age groups. The report being published on the reporting site  are very much truncated from a few weeks ago.

The infection positivity is 3.3 times what it was twelve weeks ago at the end of March.

We’ll deal with vaccination uptake tomorrow. That’s less then good as well.

Today my final exam board, then  supporting students. I have sent abut eight emails to each of them telling them what is expected of them and what help I am prepared to give – they should bring me their work for review and I am not teaching t again. 

And – yes, you guessed – no work presented – no work done.

And two of them couldn’t find where we were. 

I will be writing a long (and final) bit of guidance so that they may just be prepared for yeti deadline – which is four weeks tomorrow. And there’s no latitude – submit or it won’t be marked. Whether they read it or not is another matter.

The guidance will have some very direct language – such as “if you don’t pass you’re out or the University.”

The car engine management light came on on the way in today – it’s booked in tomorrow so that can run tests. There’s something because the symptoms got worse this evening. Hopefully it’s curable, but the bank balance may be feeling pain.

Not in until next Wednesday, so they have time, unless there’s a part that has to come from Germany and Brexit comes into play again.

Music

My violin teacher used this work as an example of why I should practice scales and arpeggios. Of course I didn’t listen.

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Violin Concerto in D Major, op. 61, Veronika Eberle, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Sir Simon Rattle