Badges, badges everywhere:

So the conference is looming nearer, and this means I really had to step up the pace. My wild Friday night consisted of making over 100 badges... printing, cutting, sticking etc, but finally they have been completed!

 (Organised chaos)

Also, my resolution on Capital Punishment has been sent off for checking, so that's almost done too! I feel like everything's fitting together now and I'm really excited for it.

Exactly 17 days to go!!

Well, at least the pink walkie talkies have arrived.

The Ultimate ULTIMATE lack of communication:

As the organiser of this conference, I know exactly what is going on what, where, when and how. However, it is extremely clear that there are members of staff undermining my authority and telling me what to do, completely contradicting their fellow staff members and confusing the heck out of my tiny little damn brain.

I've decided just to go my own way with it now, I know what I am doing, and as I keep getting different answers from different teachers, I'll stick with what I organised first.

This sheer lack of trying from them, and communicating, really is not useful and will be heavily condemned in my evaluation of the project, as it is not my organisational skill that is delaying the project, but that of the school.

Envelopes and badge holders:

The badge holders and envelopes that I had ordered arrived today in the school office! Finally, something coming together... The topic sheets have almost been done too.

With only 24 days to go, I still have a lot of work left to do...the school are not being particularly cooperative at the moment with booking rooms and facilities and that's very annoying.

No-one else is being very cooperative with trying to help me in badge making or placard folding...with 110 envelopes to make, 110 placards to print and fold, 110 badges to cut and make, I've got a lot of work to do, not a lot of time to do it, and no-one to help me.

Effort.

25 days and counting!

The Ultimate Lack of Communication:

Room booking in my school is always an issue with over 800 pupils taking over the rooms at all times. Also, apparently some rooms are just "out-of-bounds" for no apparent reason.

Having been told I needed to see facilities to book the rooms, I went to them, they allowed me to book the assembly hall, but not any small rooms! That had to go to the SIMS Office....

I emailed SIMS multiple times with no replies to any of them. I then was ill from Thursday to Wednesday of the following week, so went on the Thursday to see them.

They then said, no, they did not have the authority to give me that info and I'd have to see the director of studies, which I did, who said he'd look into it...with SIMS.

I will definitely be writing about this lack of communication in my evaluation as this immense delay in me meeting deadlines has most definitely been this error. No-one seems to know who has the authority to do what.

Back to school

As I've gone back to school, EPQ is now going to have to be filled in my free time, which isn't great, but it's do-able.

The most important thing now is sticking to deadlines which I think I'm doing quite well so far.

Flags and big placards have already been sorted,
notepaper has been made,
chairing guide is complete and next year's secretariat have been chosen.

Six weeks to go and still a lot left to do.