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.
Re: Private message to Padma Patil
Date: 2012-09-07 01:56 am (UTC)Thank you very much! It's such a surprise to be singled out from all the students like that.
(I'm sorry I didn't answer sooner but of course, I had my homework and then there were a few first- and second-year students who needed help from a Prefect. I hope you understand.)
I'd love to come and talk. I'm not sure what sort of ideas you're looking for, but I'll be happy to do what I can to bring people together through the YPL and CCF. I think they've been really amazing so far and I'm sure they're going to get even better.
I think 4 would be better, if that's still free for you, because then I'll be done with lessons for the day, and I'm not in Creatures, by the way, so that's perfect because I'll have had a couple of hours to start on homework already.
Thank you again! I'll try to live up to the opportunity to help shape the programme.
Re: Private message to Padma Patil
Date: 2012-09-07 02:27 am (UTC)Ah, thank you for that, dear. I'm still getting the knack of sorting out all of your individual schedules. And I certainly do understand and admire you tending to your other commitments.
4, then, tomorrow? And that way, if we need to talk a little longer, we'll have the time for it. Do have a thought, if you've a moment, to things you enjoyed, and things you wish had been done differently this summer, and to topics that could use additional time this school year.
I did want to compliment you, as well, on the idea for the code sessions. Really most delightful to see how clever you and some of your fellows were at solving some of those puzzles. If you had more ideas along those lines, I'd be glad to see if we could arrange something.