These past few weeks, my time has been taken up by the classification of students. As from next month, my year 9's will be starting their year 10 and as per school practice, I will be following them until the end of year 11.
One of the tasks which I had to do was to classify the students for year 10. It has involved a lot of work, but luckily, I am now ready. The basic subjects used to classify the students are Maths, Maltese, English and Physics. However, in a couple of cases, I also used my discretion. After a year chasing them up and down, I know the students quite well by now. I know their behaviour and attitudes. I know who should be in class with and who should not. Apart from being classified for the whole class, students are also set for maths, maltese, english and physics, a foreign language (either German, Irtalian, French or Spanish), PSCD, and two options.
The classification, done on excel, yielded interesting aspects, which were to be expected. One of them was that those who had spent the whole year laughing and chattering in class, did very badly indeed. Some went down by two or three classes. Those who put an effort, performed very well and went in better classes. I had been alerting my students that the classification would be done by marks since March and I had been urging them to study and prepare for the exams. Some started laughing in my face! Well, now it is really a case of what you sow, you reap!
So, I was very satisfied with the outcome and I am looking forward to seeing the looks on my students' faces, when I will call them out for their new class come the 25th September!
