I'm in the wrong career ..

[BoredBloke]

What about a number to denote the year and a letter to denote the class. Simple to work out for even the div kids.

[PRC1964]

What about a number to denote the year and a letter to denote the class. Simple to work out for even the div kids.

That means they'd have to understand both numbers and letters. It's not a realistic proposition.

[shelby68]

Year 4 (Scientists - eight)
Bell
Darwin
Faraday
Fleming
Hawking
Jenner
Newton
Whittle




Any errors ? Have we missed anyone obvious ?

Scientists: Alan Turing, The guy who keeps a lot of us in a job!

[HRH]

Scientists: Alan Turing, The guy who keeps a lot of us in a job!

Another great Mancunian!

[NotAllThere]

Scientists: Penrose, Davies, Dawkins, Davy, (Brian) May, Kelvin

Arts; Hitchcock, Gilliam, (Ridley) Scott, Parker, Geilgud,

Statesmen: Disraeli, Pitt, Walpole, Palmerstone, Gladstone, Balfour, Asquith, Lloyd-George, Baldwin, Chamberlain, Attlee,

Engineers: Kelvin (again), Trevithick, Newcomen, Bell, Bessemer, Scotty

hth

[Ardesco]

What about some of the great composers?? I don't see any of them under the arts section....

Mozart
Bach
Chopin
Holst
Wagner
Gershwin
Beethoven
Haydn
etc.

You also missed Da Vinci off that list, he could go under engineer, scientist and artist.

[Bagpuss]

My sister has just got her first Deputy Head post. She is keen to change the Form structure (currently 3a, 3b, 3c etc) to something more intellectually stimulating and she asked me to help come up with something.

The general rules are they should be named after notable Britons and not be inappropriate when out of context (e.g. we can't have little Johnny in Form Thatcher).

Here is what we have ended up with

Year 3 (Adventurers - eight)
Campbell
Cook
Drake
Livingstone
Nelson
Raleigh
Scott
Shackleton

Year 4 (Scientists - eight)
Bell
Darwin
Faraday
Fleming
Hawking
Jenner
Newton
Whittle

Year 5 (Arts - eight)
Chaplin
Chaucer
Dickens
Elgar
Moore
Shakespeare
Turner
Wordsworth

Lower Sixth (Statesmen - six)
Churchill
Cromwell
Nightingale
Pankhurst
Wellington
Wilberforce

Upper Sixth (Engineers - six)
Babbage
Brunel
Caxton
Stephenson
Telford
Watt

Any errors ? Have we missed anyone obvious ?

We had great fun (especially some of those discarded). For a (very brief) moment I saw myself teaching ... but then again.

Obviously you missed off Rolf Harris recently voted best artist in the world ever. While not strictly British his origins are Welsh.

Oliver Reed is an obvious omission

Charlie Chaplin but no Stan Laurel?

Thatcher- to be celebrated at milk time, or when milk time used to be

[Ardesco]

Doh they are all supposed to be Brits are they.... ah well

[SueEllen]

Yep, not enough Black One Legged Lesbians! You've fliped up the "diversity" requirement.

Agreed.

There are lots of female authors you could use to get your diversity requirement up i.e. Austen, Woolfe, Potter.

There are a few British female scientists i.e. Stopes, Garrett Anderson

You could just change one of your sections to sportsmen and then you have lots diversity without much effort.

[expat]

There are a few British female scientists i.e. Stopes, Garrett Anderson

Rosalind Franklin.