Christmas Competition

Tenon is now on holiday.  Last Tuesday we had our Carol Service and for 2 weeks before that we were all struggling to write our reports and upload them to the school system from whence they are generated into printable files which the Head then reads. We used to have to print our reports onto paper by writing them in a Word template.  We would hand them back to colleagues for correction if we found mistakes.  These days we can go in and edit small errors made by colleagues (typos and so on) but subject terminology has to be checked with the teacher concerned.

The office staff stay on after the end of term to produce the reports and post them out to parents; the Head proof reads EVERY report and then writes his own.

Now, I admit that when I write reports I use my friends CTRL-C and CTRL-V if a phrase is needed again.  If one make an error this is duplicated! I had an email yesterday from the secretary saying that a report had been sent back to her and could I explain what I meant.  I checked all the reports for that class and found ten which had the same typo.  How many of my colleagues had actually read my report on the children in question, let alone understood what I was saying or thought to question it? NONE.

COMPETITION

Find the mistake in the following report.

This term we have been exploring the way composers use texture. In one session pupils composed a melody against a drone note.  John's piece was very dissonant because his melody was in one key whilst his drone note (when it eventually appeared) was totally foreign to the key.  In a group composition task pupils had to compose and produce the score of a piece which had three stands of sound, with a single rhythm to each part.  Given that he and his colleagues only wrote five bars and included another three bars of rest in the middle of the piece I have to say this was disappointing especially as only two bars used more than a single strand of sound.  John obtained 64% in a recent listening test about texture.  He needs to absorb musical vocabulary when he encounters it and to avoid errors such as failing to circle one of four options in a multiple choice question.

Sorry, there is not a prize but I should like to know how this was not picked up until it reached the Head.