Vertical Tutoring

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We're being put into our new forms and houses tomorrow (PLEASE PUT ME IN KRAKAN!!!!!!).

It's where you get 5 people from each year, and shove 'em in a form together. It has hits pros and cons, but I've heard of more failures than successes.

Has anyone had a successful Vertical Tutoring system at school? It's gonna be weird.

[Leetzgirl]

we have it at our school and it pointless becasue we are being moved around all the times so we have like different form teacher each term.

[Decode]

Our school were gonna use vertical tutoring, but then they realised that people just woudnt go to form if they didnt like it (and everyone hated the idea) so they didnt do it :D

[CJW93]

We have it, at first everyone was pissed at it including teachers. But after two years of it it seems ok

[-Evilpenguin-]

Actually its really good, our school has it. It helps you get to know lots of people in different years who normally you wouldnt get to talk too.

[Holofoil]

Oh yes, ours is really effective. We get advice off older students and give advice to younger students.
The advice goes along the lines of

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It's true that if someone doesn't like it, they just go to another VTG to hang around there. I just go to the Art Shed.

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Nobody's happy with their new forms - I have an awful form tutor and an idiot next to me, and all of our Year8s are HORRIBLE.

[e5]

i dont get it? :S

[Decode]

i dont get it? :S
Instead of doing form groups by year, eg;

YEAR 11 - 11A - 11B - 11C
YEAR 10 - 10A - 10B - 10C
YEAR 9 - 9A - 9B - 9C
YEAR 8 - 8A - 8B - 8C
YEAR 7 - 7A - 7B - 7C

It would be done randomly, so;

FORM 1 - 5 People from each year
FORM 2 - 5 People from each year
FORM 3 - 5 People from each year

[timROGERS]

There is talk of our school having it but we hven't got it yet. I suspect I will be gone by the time that it actually happens.

[N-Dubz]

No, we grow up with the form's we are put in, in year 7.

This Vertical Tutoring is abit harsh really.

[VPSwow]

We had this at my secondry school aswell. Didn't help at all.

[Alkaz]

I left my secondary school before they started to bring this all into place but in my 6th form its only the 6th formers who are mixed and there arent many ye 13's so they just got put into one form :P

[Stitch]

My school has used it for 2 years and I like it better than the old one. It lets everyone get to know more people round the school rather than just in your year. I'm on my 8th tutor teacher since year 7 now :P

[Jongo]

I had the same teacher all the way through for a whole 5 years, people came and people left, but all together it was great growing up with people who you've known for ages. I would of hated to have done this, it would have been annoying whereby you might become best friends with one person - then you just leave them.

[flatface]

My school brought that in just before I left, I'm glad that didn't have it whilst I was there because I would of hated it.