Just to let you know if you are interested that my sister got a job yesterday. Come September she will be Queenswood school's very latest maths teacher.

Send her my congratulations.

I will pass on some of Robinson's best teaching habits if she is interested. In fact, I think we should turn this thread into 'interesting maths teacher behaviour at Haileybury 1994-1999', so that she may learn and use some of these techniques in her classes.

I will start off with Robinson (others of you may like to chip in with memoirs of Pinnington, Doc Harvey, George, etc)

Rule 1: Always act like you dont give a shit about anyone else, particularly if they don't understand what you're on about.

Typical conversation, Upper Sixth, 1998-1999, P2 lesson.

Robinson: "Flarty flarty flar, sin cos tan over x squared, begorrah, pint o' guiness, square root of the logarithm y, where's me lucky charms."

Me: "Sir, can you just explain that last bit I don't quite get it."

Robinson: "You fecking little gobshite! I don't give a monkey's flying fart what you know. I'll kick you from here to Dublin with those feckin catholics and protestants, that'll teach yers."

Good luck Helen.

pinningtons wonderful technique to solve any M1 question

"... resolve in two perpendicular directions and use F=ma..."

(back it up with the omen theme tune, record it on minidisc, and you're away!)

The Harvey Technique to a Better Teaching Life ™

"Don't set any homework so you don't have to mark any".

Everyone thought he was a genius and yessir he was.

George's method:
Try to be one of lads, fail miserably, and burnout more spectacularly than anyone ever in the history of spectacular burnouts.
Oh, and once a year, go mental and start screaming like a girl at Stu.

or Pullen's "I can't teach Maths for shit and my entire class failed but I'm the undermaster and you can't touch me even when I physically assult you" philosophy.