assorted leftover bits:

[devi]

The Little Mathsgirl got her SAT results. She got an 8 in maths, which I think is basically an A! Squee! She got nearly double the marks she got in her mocks before I started teaching her! More squee! Not that I'm taking the credit - well, it would be false to say I'm not taking any of the credit because it is giving me a warm glow and a sense of "I must be doing something right". Still, I didn't do much more than read the book out to her; her brain just slurps up facts as fast as you can dish them out. But... well, I've never seen her actually grinning as much as she did yesterday and that makes me happy.

And I had the best damn weekend in recent memory, which among much else featured a ROBOT HORSE!


A robot horse that played an eerie tune!

And the air smells so good after the rain.

Comments

[juggzy.livejournal.com]

More robot animals, please!

Are you up for the robot dinosaurs the weekend after next? Did you get my emails? Can I stop asking questions, please?

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

I got the one about the BEER PLANS etc that you sent today (thanks! Good to know I'm not just being a horrible leech) but if you mailed while I was in Ireland I might have forgotten to reply to it...

Is that the weekend of the 14th? I'm away then. Everything in the world ever is happening that weekend.

[juggzy.livejournal.com]

Hows about tonight then? Sometime early evening for BEER?

Yup, that's the weekend of the 14th. It may be so good I have to go again.

Or we could make our own robot animals. I'm sure there's a kit somewhere.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

I'd love to. (Building robots, but also the other suggestion.) I can't, though, I have a plan with my friend Jo before she gets eaten by London this coming weekend. Soon!

[geeveecatullus.livejournal.com]

YAY maths girl.
Did you ever end up making her a mix tape?

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking about it for next week. It's our last session and I'll give it to her as a farewell present.

[caescarna.livejournal.com]

Yay! - I almost asked in my recent email how she was getting on. Your plan sounds like a great idea :)

[eponymousarchon.livejournal.com]

Well done you! (AND her)

[dr-f-dellamorte.livejournal.com]

I saw him at Glastonbury last year! He's a cCOOOOOL horse!

[silme.livejournal.com]

Yay! There really isn't a grade equivalent to the silly National Curriculum Levels (oh, I wish there were), but Level 8 is the absolute highest possible. Kids can't even earn an 8 on the English SATs any more, although English teachers can still assess them at Level 8. But for Maths and Science, Level 8 is the highest for both SATs and teacher assessment. Good job to you both! :)

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the info. I'm a bit ignorant about how it's all administered at that level. (I usually do GCSE maths and the LMG is doing GCSE-level stuff anyway.)

And for the yays :)

[spyinthehaus.livejournal.com]

Cripes. That's a fantastic animal - in a variety of senses of the word.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

It really was. It was like an incursion from the Realms of Steampunk Fantasy.

[parallelgirl.livejournal.com]

Woh, an 8 is Exceptional Performance and Quite Something!