A word for those students in 12 B - both B1 and B2

It came to light in the last few days of term that many of you still hadn't completed the editing essay. There have been several opportunities in class to complete this work (despite protests to the contrary) and extra time of two weeks has been given since this issue was first raised to allow you to complete this work. Several students in B and all of the students in E were able to complete the work and therefore this shows it was perfectly possible to get the work done.

Having found that some of you still haven't completed the work, you were asked to complete as much as you could in one hour's lesson. Some of you have submitted a couple of lines, a paragraph, or no work at all. This is clearly unacceptable for A-Level students' output in one hour (or even half and hour!).

We set this work back on the 11th November (and all the things needed to complete have been on the blog since). Even a completed mindmap was uploaded on 23rd Nov - the deadline was 8th Dec and you've had a further two extra weeks since then. If you are one of the students who hasn't handed in a complete essay for the Pillow Talk vs Fringe essay, this is forewarning that we will still be expecting this work to be completed.

If you are following this blog as we have asked, you will have a chance to do this over the holidays - all you need is on the blogs and you can contact Mrs T in the usual fashion at any time if you need help. Those of you who still don't have the work in January will be given one week further to complete the essay or we will be forced to consider your suitability for the next part of the course where reliability and meeting deadlines is extremely important - not the least because YOUR WORK (or lack thereof) will directly affect the exam results of others. As responsible educators, we will not be acting in the best interests of reliable, hard-working students if we knowingly put them in groups with students who have repeatedly shown they are incapable of getting work done as required, despite so much extra time and support.

The majority of students have managed this work and if you are one of those, well done! Enjoy your Christmas and we'll see you in January!