YPL: Our Exciting New Plans
Sep. 6th, 2012 01:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_umbridgeDear boys and girls, I am just so excited to be able to announce the wonderful new plans for the YPL this year. We of course welcome all of our darling new first years, but I also invite those of you in upper years who have not been as previously involved to return. After all, this is the best opportunity to learn skills outside the classroom, and become the best young witches and wizards in service to our glorious Protectorate you can possibly be!
We are going to continue with just a few of the arrangements that Professor Sinistra had already made, but we have so much other material that we simply must cover that we’ll be adding quite a few additional meetings. Full date lists have now been posted in all of your common rooms, but I just want to draw your attention to the highlights.
Our first meeting together will be on September 16th, from 2 to 5 in the afternoon. In that, we’ll be handing out your membership sashes, learning about all the exciting plans for this year, and practising some study skills to help you all get the best start on the coming school year. We’ll also talk about some of the ways that you can demonstrate your commitment, skill, and loyalty to the programme’s aims outside of meetings.
One of these little projects will be to improve our fitness and overall health. We will be beginning to offer regular sessions of running, flying, and other activities several times a week. We’ll discuss more of the details on the 16th, but CCF students, kindly plan to remain until supper, as I expect you will be eager to take the lead on organising these sessions.
Other events this year will include a lecture from some of our Protectorate’s foremost magical engineers, a chance to be of service to village schools, and a truly wonderful writing project and competition to honour the Lord Protector. And for our CCF students, there will be a special activity building on the work of the past summer. We will also have many chances to gather loyally, polish our social and study skills, and temper ourselves to reveal our best and purest potential.
A chance to discuss your hopes for the programme: Now, finally, I want to let you all know that I take my position as the chair of the planning committee most seriously. I wanted to give you all a teensy amount of time to settle in, but beginning on Monday, I will be arranging meetings with all the current CCF members, and with all the counsellors (so for those who are both, we will be able to spend two delightful hours together). I have planned this around your course schedules, and I am sure you will be glad to set any other plans aside just this once.
After those are complete, I will be looking to meet with as many other interested parties - students in other years, faculty, parents, and members of our wonderful larger community - about long-term plans for the programme.
Again, should you or any of your parents have questions, I would be glad to assist. Students, my door is always open to you, and parents, I am readily reachable by owl and journal.
We are going to continue with just a few of the arrangements that Professor Sinistra had already made, but we have so much other material that we simply must cover that we’ll be adding quite a few additional meetings. Full date lists have now been posted in all of your common rooms, but I just want to draw your attention to the highlights.
Our first meeting together will be on September 16th, from 2 to 5 in the afternoon. In that, we’ll be handing out your membership sashes, learning about all the exciting plans for this year, and practising some study skills to help you all get the best start on the coming school year. We’ll also talk about some of the ways that you can demonstrate your commitment, skill, and loyalty to the programme’s aims outside of meetings.
One of these little projects will be to improve our fitness and overall health. We will be beginning to offer regular sessions of running, flying, and other activities several times a week. We’ll discuss more of the details on the 16th, but CCF students, kindly plan to remain until supper, as I expect you will be eager to take the lead on organising these sessions.
Other events this year will include a lecture from some of our Protectorate’s foremost magical engineers, a chance to be of service to village schools, and a truly wonderful writing project and competition to honour the Lord Protector. And for our CCF students, there will be a special activity building on the work of the past summer. We will also have many chances to gather loyally, polish our social and study skills, and temper ourselves to reveal our best and purest potential.
A chance to discuss your hopes for the programme: Now, finally, I want to let you all know that I take my position as the chair of the planning committee most seriously. I wanted to give you all a teensy amount of time to settle in, but beginning on Monday, I will be arranging meetings with all the current CCF members, and with all the counsellors (so for those who are both, we will be able to spend two delightful hours together). I have planned this around your course schedules, and I am sure you will be glad to set any other plans aside just this once.
After those are complete, I will be looking to meet with as many other interested parties - students in other years, faculty, parents, and members of our wonderful larger community - about long-term plans for the programme.
Again, should you or any of your parents have questions, I would be glad to assist. Students, my door is always open to you, and parents, I am readily reachable by owl and journal.
Private message to Horace Slughorn
Date: 2012-09-06 05:31 pm (UTC)I do hope you haven’t taken offence that I’ve not managed to make time to see you for a good chat yet. I felt it most important, first, to have a little chat with those whose duties most directly affect the YPL work itself. But please, don’t think for a moment I’d neglect you.
Would you have time soon for a visit from me? I would so love to catch up, and of course hear all your lovely stories about how your students have succeeded in the years since I left school. Do say we can find a time soon, and of course, I’ll bring a little treat or two.
Dolores
Re: Private message to Horace Slughorn
Date: 2012-09-07 02:16 pm (UTC)Not at all, not at all, my dear. In fact, I was just about to reply to you last night when that pack of lies appeared and quite threw my evening into disarray.
The first week of lessons is always a bit of a jolt, but now that I've settled our fifth-year Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws in for the morning, I can (blessedly) spend part of the hour catching up on the correspondence I missed last night.
I'd be delighted to meet with you, of course. My door is always open. May I say, it's remarkable to see you devoting yourself so passionately to the preparation of our young people. Particularly after your skills have been so valuable to the Ministry, for so long, I do hope your presence here means we might have more of a, well, a direct line, as it were? Not to fault the Governors, of course, or Minerva or even Septima, she does what she can, but it is good to know that someone with real influence in New London is only a few metres away.
Shall we say, Sunday afternoon?
Re: Private message to Horace Slughorn
Date: 2012-09-07 03:09 pm (UTC)Quite the night, yes. I do hope the dear students weren't too much upset by it? Sunday would be lovely. Your office? Mine? Perhaps at three, and then we'd have plenty of time to catch up well and properly.
As to that lovely compliment, well, I certainly hope to do what I can. It's more than clear already that a little extra in that area certainly wouldn't go amiss, and Latimer Caldwell - Division Director for Education, you know - has proven most willing to listen to my little suggestions.
It is so good to catch up once again.