Wednesday 22nd January

Today was the morning of judgement day for Develop (as one would say) as Develop had an Ofsted inspector come in to assess the quality of teaching. Shortly after John had thought us for near an hour, the woman assessor asked John and Catherine to leave the room in order to speak to the whole of the level threes and extended level threes, she asked us about our thoughts and what our experience is like at Develop. It was all positive answers like supportive staff or a good variety of different units but then she asked what Develop could improve on, if I remember correctly people want the hours to change a 10 o’clock start and a 3 o’clock finish, personally I think the hours are fine but if we were to change them then we should start at the same time but finish at half three. After lunch John asked that we begin coding or testing the lego robots so we are used to the software and the programming language but Dan raised a good point that we should all have a robot each that we build so it will save other people waiting for on robot to be free. The problem was it took a lot longer to design and create the robots than initially thought, so in the end it took the whole day just to make them. I was paired with Shane to build a robot as there was enough for one each. I was happy with this as we both had similar ideas and were willing to try out all of the different ideas we have. So overall today was fun and very productive and on another note it seems that neither John nor Catherine got fired and Develop didn't get shut down…. which is always a bonus.