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'A' Level results day at Prudhoe Community High School, Northumberland, August 16th. With the permission of the Head Teacher.
See Moira's introduction to Happy Bunnies for a fuller explanation.
I served as Exams Officer at PCHS from 1993 to 2006 as well as teaching French, German and Music. Eventually I got used to organising my summer holidays around weeks 4 and 5: the results arrived electronically on the Wednesdays and in hard copy on Thursdays, when there was a mad rush to sort results statements, in different format for each Examinations Board, collate them, pack them into labelled envelopes and have them ready for distribution by 10 a.m. when the students were admitted.
As E.O. I could leave the sorting tables to a trusted team of clerical staff and volunteer teachers while I dealt with queries and statistics. This year I was myself a volunteer sorter, though on A Levels day I managed to get a few photographs before sealing envelopes and assisting with the distribution, which is why Moira's pictures contain happy faces and mine don't.
| Brand: | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera: | Nikon D7000  Check out Nikon Nation! |
| Lens: | Nikkor 16-85mm f3.5-5.6G AF-S ED VR DX  Check out Nikon Nation! |
| Recording media: | RAW (digital) |
| Date Taken: | 16 Aug 2012 - 7:12 AM |
| Focal Length: | 68mm |
| Lens Max Aperture: | f/5.7 |
| Aperture: | f/5.6 |
| Shutter Speed: | 1/125sec |
| Exposure Comp: | -1/3 |
| ISO: | 400 |
| Exposure Mode: | Shutter speed priority AE |
| Metering Mode: | Multi-segment |
| Flash: | On, Return detected |
| White Balance: | As Shot |
| Title: | Sorting and Checking |
| Username: | 
woolybill1 |
| Uploaded: | 27 Aug 2012 - 9:22 AM |
| Tags: | Black & white, Flash, Hands, People, Photo journalism |
| Votes: | 40 |
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Fascinating and important social commentary here Bill.
Many hands make light work and this capture is superb, the focus, dof, the idea to get the shot, great work well captured.
John
Thanks for your comments, guys and gals.
The note about Social Commentary has set me thinking. When I took over the job exam entries were submitted on floppy disk, a considerable advance over the A3 triplicate pro-forma that my predecessors had to complete by hand during the days of O-Levels, a tiresome job with an annual cohort of 100+ candidates let alone the 200+ for present-day GCSEs. I oversaw the transition to dedicated electronic transmission, fraught with expensive dangers when 256k modems were the order of the day and the service provider would muck up everything that the modem got right, and then to decent broadband and a choice of school management systems. This year for the first time no hard copy of Statements of Results was sent by the Exam Boards; it can't be long before the results are delivered to candidates electronically and the days of paper-shuffling as depicted here will be gone for ever.
Presumably the days of communal celebration will be gone, too 
I particularly like v4 here Bill - well documented 
Helen
There is too much techie stuff involved with these exams today Bill.
In my day,a packet of Woodbines to the teacher ensured a pass mark.
Apart from my History teacher that is.
He only smoked cigars,and they were damned expensive at the time !!
(And I have caught up on Saturdays upload too.)
Mick.
Four images which I would love to have been apart of however as you no since I had by Second Brain Haemorrhage, I lost my job as a Teacher, in a profession which I loved so much. My Teacher training was carried out in the North East at the Lord Lawson Of Beamish School, and Houghton Kepier. Fond memories, however quite painful to remember.
Regards Nathan
A good historical record of pen pushing and paper shuffling!!
Dave
Hmm Bill one day as the paper disappears we will have less of those depressing rows of Fir trees they suddenly cut down & leave such a mess ! You have captured these moments perfectly . I too love hands. One day they will all huddle together over their Iphones or Ipads . xx
A great set documenting this paper shuffling, Bill! 
Trev
It was well worth giving these fine mono images a thorough examination, I think they pass the test
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