Author Topic: Calling all teachers (Read 1197 times)

pye · « **on:** May 31, 2007, 14:10:54 »

Please excuse this odd post but this is driving me mad.

I read something recently about teachers noticing that kids all get very excitable on windy days. I can't remember where/when I read it, or who wrote it, could've been in the paper, on the web somewhere, or here on A4A. ???

If you posted something about this recently please put me out of my misery. :)

Marymary · « **Reply #1 on:** May 31, 2007, 14:34:16 »

Dunno who posted it but it's certainly true. BTW it's half term - enough time for education related posts in the next six weeks. ;D

grawrc · « **Reply #2 on:** May 31, 2007, 15:50:23 »

wind, full moon, electric storms they change personality and become wild.

flossie · « **Reply #3 on:** May 31, 2007, 15:54:25 »

advent calendars have the same effect :)

norfolklass · « **Reply #4 on:** May 31, 2007, 16:17:05 »

don't have any kids so can't say if they're affected but my cat goes mental when it's windy

grawrc · « **Reply #5 on:** May 31, 2007, 16:54:40 »

Ha! Just got in the tomatoes before the skies opened. Blinding torrential monsoon rain and fierce and fast thunder and lightning. The weather mirrors my mood.

caroline7758 · « **Reply #6 on:** May 31, 2007, 17:13:25 »

As an ex-teacher I can say it's definitely true!

Jeannine · « **Reply #7 on:** May 31, 2007, 17:32:10 »

Yep, and full moons and especially wet playtimes

Tulipa · « **Reply #8 on:** May 31, 2007, 17:41:37 »

You can tell when it has been a windy playtime, they come in so excited, as though the wind comes in with them.... :)

Meg · « **Reply #9 on:** May 31, 2007, 17:42:25 »

Worked as a nursery nurse and all the the children went hay wire when it was windy.

asbean · « **Reply #10 on:** May 31, 2007, 18:48:30 »

So do I ;D ;D ;D ;D

grawrc · « **Reply #11 on:** May 31, 2007, 18:49:51 »

Hey! ;)

pye · « **Reply #12 on:** May 31, 2007, 19:13:54 »

Thanks for all the replies, but can anyone remember a post about this during the last month or so? It's still driving me nuts that I can't remember where I read it. Stupid brain. >:(

I do love the idea of wild eyed children and cats charging about, bringing the wind indoors with them. :)

I love a windy day meself. :)

Biscombe · « **Reply #13 on:** May 31, 2007, 19:22:30 »

As a teacher I can vouch for that!! and in Spain when its windy it's really really windy! :-\

greenstar · « **Reply #14 on:** May 31, 2007, 21:10:00 »

Pye, I'm not sure that it was on here that you read it. I remember it too, and I could've sworn that I read it in a newspaper or heard it on the radio. So it would have been either radio 4 or radio Scotland, or in the Guardian, Independent, Herald or Metro.

Sorry, that's probably just made it even harder to remember where you saw it :-\

pye · « **Reply #15 on:** May 31, 2007, 22:24:55 »

Thank you thank you thank you! :-* ;D

It will be either Guardian or R4, I'm sure I read it not heard it, will have another search on g-unlimited.

saddad · « **Reply #16 on:** May 31, 2007, 23:29:25 »

They are still as mental in secondary school... but as our building sways in the wind and you can hear it creak and groan maybe they aren't that mad after all!
::)

sarah · « **Reply #17 on:** June 01, 2007, 09:08:06 »

we had a dog that would go happily bananas when it was windy when i was a kid. my dad would come in from the garden and say "the dogs got the wap in her tail again". never did know what a wap was.

Robert_Brenchley · « **Reply #18 on:** June 01, 2007, 11:38:23 »

I'm sure it's true, but it's hard to pinpoint exactly why. You get 30 hormonal teenagers in a room and it takes very little to set them off.

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Author Topic: Calling all teachers (Read 1197 times)