''On silence" punishment.

[jackmerlin.livejournal.com]

I was just wondering how it worked when the form was put on silence as a punishment in Cricket Term? Were they all on their honour not to talk to anyone, even when no teachers were around? How many of them stuck to it? And how did the teachers deal with a class on silence, especially with no notice. No pairwork, group work, discussion, answering questions, asking questions when stuck, etc. It must have been hard in language lessons particularly. I doubt modern pupils would cope with it. Does anyone have any experience of this sort of punishment from school?

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[mrs-redboots.livejournal.com]

I think we are told in Autumn Term that when they're on silence they may only speak when required to do so by a member of staff, so I imagine that classwork is unaffected. "We are on silence" on the board is probably meant to warn the staff member not to expect too much in the way of chat!

I imagine they are on their honour not to talk to one another, although possibly younger girls are supervised to ensure this is what happens?

[hooloovoo_42]

I agree. I think in the Chalet School books, if the thirds had misbehaved, a prefect went to make sure they kept silence. In a secondary form, they'd be considered old enough to be on their honour.

[bookwormsarah.livejournal.com]

Sorry, complete aside, but is that Josh Lyman? I am sure I recognise the dimple...

[hooloovoo_42]

It's Bradley Whitford, who was Josh Lyman. (We went to see him on Broadway a couple of years ago. He's totally lovely in person. If I hadn't been in love with him before that, I'd have fallen for him then.)

[bookwormsarah.livejournal.com]

Of course - Josh isn't a leather jacket man... I am very envious of you seeing him on Broadway. I saw Richard Schiff in London a few years ago and he was brilliant.

[hooloovoo_42]

Yes, I saw RS as well. I thought both the character and he as himself afterwards were just so totally Toby!

RS is here again at the moment. IIRC, he's in Smash. I must find out if there are tickets left.

[hooloovoo_42]

Ha! I just checked out your profile and I believe we know each other from another place, home to the everyday story of internet folk!

[bookwormsarah.livejournal.com]

Small world! I haven't been there for a while, but I still have the mug and the t-shirt...

[hooloovoo_42]

I don't use usenet any more - cock up with my credit card and the Berlin server - so haven't read umra for ages. I still have a box full of mugs :-)

[bookwormsarah.livejournal.com]

Quite tempting to buy one for Jamie - he broke his on site a few years back... I haven't read umra properly since university - yonks ago! It was the first online community I was part of and I get nostalgic thinking about it sometimes.

[hooloovoo_42]

If you've got his address, I can send him one.

I do miss the old folks back there sometimes. But I seem to spend far too much time online elsewhere these days.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I rather doubt Kingsworth does group work or pair work much anyway!

[(Anonymous)]

Yes I can imagine that. They even have real books to work from, with lots of text on the page.

[hooloovoo_42]

Oh, the horror!!!

[rosathome.livejournal.com]

Kingscote.

Totally agreed. Very newfangled teaching methods and certainly no examples of them in the books.

[mrs-redboots.livejournal.com]

Except the maths lesson where Lawrie successfully distracts Miss Cromwell on to a discussion of Judaism being both a race and a religion!

[hooloovoo_42]

I think Crommie was the kind of person who could be distracted by the right subject and Lawrie's views on religion were probably something she couldn't let pass without wading in.

However, it wouldn't surprise me that she'd work them harder in the next lesson to catch up and probably have a few words with various other staff about her form's sad lack of religious understanding.

[charverz.livejournal.com]

I remember a University Latin course in the 1970s which usually ended up in a discussion of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. I remember Larissa sighing and gathering up her books as she realized there'd be no Latin that day.

As an aside, the registrar at the Royal Conservatory where my son was taking his music lessons had the same name. Turned out to be the professor's grandson.