Our return to school
Jan. 6th, 2013 01:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_umbridgeDear boys and girls,
I am sure we are all so very glad to be returning to school where we can again devote our attentions and focus to becoming the very best possible citizens of the Protectorate we can be. I have been working very hard while all of you have been on holidays to arrange a number of exciting new plans for each and every one of you.
Before I talk about our upcoming exercises together, I do want to mention one teensy thing. I could not help but notice that so very many of you make excessive use of the private messaging function in the journals. Now, it is understandable that important people may need to use the function to conduct critical business, and Our Gracious Lord makes that possible, as Our Lord makes all things possible.
But dear children, you should understand that using the private message function can feel so terribly exclusionary. When you write to only one or two other people, you cut yourself off from others, and you make those others feel uncomfortable and unwelcome. Surely, you want to demonstrate the very best of the Protectorate’s welcoming and affirming ideas!
To that end, let us all make a resolution to make at least one public post in our journals each and every week, so that others may learn about what we’re doing. In this way, we may also, if we are very fortunate, hear the guidance of older and wiser heads in our community most directly. To aid in this, I will be providing little essay prompts, delivered at random to students, to encourage us to have something to discuss as a larger community.
Upcoming activities
First, our regular exercise sessions will begin promptly again on Monday afternoon. Now, I’m sure some of you have slacked over the holidays, but I trust that the counsellors will set every example and create a particularly strenuous programme of exercises this week.
Second, we will gather on Sunday to be of great use to our village schools. We will travel by port-key (I am assured that the little difficulties of this weekend will be resolved) in small groups to a number of schools, each group lead by several YPL counsellors. There, you will assist the teachers with any number of teensy tasks. Rearranging furniture or woodpiles for greater efficiency, repairing books and other items, and of course making sure that absolutely everything is tidy and organised. By being of service in these small ways, you will learn to be of service in greater ones.
Third, I remind our CCF students of our upcoming day-long session on January 27th. While there are some similarities to your exercise last year, there are some changes this year, including the fact it will take place at Hogwarts itself. Please be prepared to assemble at 10am in the front hall, wearing appropriate clothing, as we will be outside until nearly supper.
Finally, I am in the process of discussing a substantial new project, with the support of the Board and several members of the Council. While it is not quite ready to be revealed, I hope to have much more information for you within the fortnight.
I am sure we are all so very glad to be returning to school where we can again devote our attentions and focus to becoming the very best possible citizens of the Protectorate we can be. I have been working very hard while all of you have been on holidays to arrange a number of exciting new plans for each and every one of you.
Before I talk about our upcoming exercises together, I do want to mention one teensy thing. I could not help but notice that so very many of you make excessive use of the private messaging function in the journals. Now, it is understandable that important people may need to use the function to conduct critical business, and Our Gracious Lord makes that possible, as Our Lord makes all things possible.
But dear children, you should understand that using the private message function can feel so terribly exclusionary. When you write to only one or two other people, you cut yourself off from others, and you make those others feel uncomfortable and unwelcome. Surely, you want to demonstrate the very best of the Protectorate’s welcoming and affirming ideas!
To that end, let us all make a resolution to make at least one public post in our journals each and every week, so that others may learn about what we’re doing. In this way, we may also, if we are very fortunate, hear the guidance of older and wiser heads in our community most directly. To aid in this, I will be providing little essay prompts, delivered at random to students, to encourage us to have something to discuss as a larger community.
Upcoming activities
First, our regular exercise sessions will begin promptly again on Monday afternoon. Now, I’m sure some of you have slacked over the holidays, but I trust that the counsellors will set every example and create a particularly strenuous programme of exercises this week.
Second, we will gather on Sunday to be of great use to our village schools. We will travel by port-key (I am assured that the little difficulties of this weekend will be resolved) in small groups to a number of schools, each group lead by several YPL counsellors. There, you will assist the teachers with any number of teensy tasks. Rearranging furniture or woodpiles for greater efficiency, repairing books and other items, and of course making sure that absolutely everything is tidy and organised. By being of service in these small ways, you will learn to be of service in greater ones.
Third, I remind our CCF students of our upcoming day-long session on January 27th. While there are some similarities to your exercise last year, there are some changes this year, including the fact it will take place at Hogwarts itself. Please be prepared to assemble at 10am in the front hall, wearing appropriate clothing, as we will be outside until nearly supper.
Finally, I am in the process of discussing a substantial new project, with the support of the Board and several members of the Council. While it is not quite ready to be revealed, I hope to have much more information for you within the fortnight.
Private message to Cassandra Calderwood
Date: 2013-01-06 07:16 pm (UTC)Do stop by my office once you are settled in at school. I had a delightful conversation with your mother on Friday, as I’m sure she’s made clear to you, and I have promised my every assistance in ensuring you do your very best this coming term.
I am at home to students from three to five pm each weekday afternoon, or by appointment.
Dolores Umbridge