Who cares about our Future?

"Who cares about our Future? Tell us most about how you KO'd Robbie Savage!"

We've had a motivational speech about our future, with former football referee Matt Messias.

As year 11s will now no doubt all ready know, Matt is most famous for this scene here where he knocks down Blackburn's Robbie Savage.

Matt's main purpose was to get across the school's "aim higher programme". Thinking that a ref would be "down" with the students, they set forth and got Matt to do a speech. Whether it worked, nobody can really tell, but the assembly he gave wont be forgotten any time soon.

After, he prepared to do one hour sessions with two groups for the next two periods. As foreseen, when he asked if anyone had any questions, he was stricken by questions to do with his accident with Robbie Savage. The lessons themselves required pupils to write about what they'd like to do in the future. But hardly any pupils took this seriously despite the seriousness of the topic.
At the end of the lessons, Matt put on a video that was a montage of sporting achievements to Eminem's Lose Yourself. However the video also couldn't be taken seriously because of the amount of innuendos in it. Apparently we must help each other as a team, and the better we do, the more inches to success we are. And we must take the inches off others to survive.

Agreed, the lesson was worth skipping the rubbish our teachers already had cooked up for us. And to make things even better, one Templar managed to get Matt's autograph. A day well spent.

Curse #1: Templar Truths presents....

In school, teachers and pupils and even the occasional Templar would need to produce a presentation using the Microsoft Office Application "PowerPoint". PowerPoint is relatively easy to use and offers an easier way to tell others pointless dabble.
However, now I am brought over to the title of this post, "Curse #1". Well that's because this post is about the very first curse in a series of curses that go on at Temple Moor High School Science Collage. This first curse being the curse of the faulty presentation.
The basics of this curse is, PowerPoint presentations don't work in the school. And here's a list of situations this curse causes.

1. It wont load- As a pupil wanting a good mark, you have spent a good thirty minutes creating your presentation, you even sneaked in some special effects on slide 3 and 7. Only, when it comes to putting it on the teachers computer, the file with the presentation on, wont load. Too big perhaps? Something wrong with the memory storage device you're using? I don't think so.
2. It wont slide- This effect normally only works on the interactive whiteboard. For whatever reason, the screen being out of sync or the "remote" is out of batteries. The presentation wont continue onto the next slide.
3. Slide is going too fast- We've all seen this before, someone clicks the presentation to move, and it doesn't. So for good measure, they click it again, and again, and again. The pupils face finally lights up in glee as the presentation continues. As they turn back to the audience and continue reading, the fourteen other clicks you made catch up, and before you know the slide has ran to the end.

That is only a few of the problems you will find in the school to do with presentations. Coincidence? These happen a lot, so that is why it gets to be the first Curse in the Templar's Curses series.