FASCINATING AIDA : very funny OFSTED song for teachers

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FASCINATING AIDA are: Dillie Keane in the blue. Adele Anderson in red. And, in yellow, the glorious Liza Pulman. ...

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@iainsar66 9 ай бұрын

We're seeing them later this month, and I've just shared this with my wife as she's a teacher and it sums up how precisely how the staff room feels!

@henryroscoe2464 9 ай бұрын

That’s the best definition of OFSTED I’ve heard in a very long time!

@dianeweaver3928 3 жыл бұрын

As a retired teacher from the US, I loved this video. I retired early because of similar issues. I didn't know my sisters and brothers across the pond were suffering in similar fashion. So sorry for all of us. Great, great, great performance.

@sinephase 2 жыл бұрын

Bureaucracy in a nutshell, I guess. It doesn't leave any room for the professional judgement of individuals and becomes authoritarian.

@martinidry6300 Жыл бұрын

I don't know of ANY teachers who haven't taken early retirement here "across the pond". They are almost entirely WORTHLESS, UNSAKEABLE & over stocked with women. In short, they're in it for a soft life, salary, too many holidays, abysmal standards, Left wing everything, discrimination of boys, course work over exams, entitlement & arrogance. My grandfather, born in 1903, was born in grinding poverty in Mayo, Ireland. A candlelit cottage and exacting discipline got him a Headmastership there. He spent 4 hours per weekday night marking exercise books, 8 hours on the weekend. He was a teacher for idealism, duty, unbending standards and honour. He would be destroyed today for this. Teachers have produced the generations that are destroying the West from within. Your surprise that Europe/UuGreat Britain the Disunited Queendom has replicated America's terminally diseased outlook on education is typical of unaware Yanks. You Yanks infect and corrode EVERYTHING. PS: The Internet is being used here. It's a British invention.

@susanjeffay3851 2 жыл бұрын

Growing up on Gilbert and Sullivan I can appreciate the rhyme- plus as a retired teacher, enjoyed it the most!

@WolfyGreen 8 жыл бұрын

This has brightened my day, Far more than I can say, I'm sad to make confession, That my former, dear profession, Is crucified in each and every way.

@finlaygordonmccusker2855 9 жыл бұрын

Being a Spanish teacher, I feel their pain. I'm so glad they cleared out Ofsted's meaning for me.

@castlering 5 ай бұрын

In light of the tragic death of a headteacher recently, this song screams so much truth about how it is like for teachers and what they have to put up with. Hopefully, there is change as a result, but it shouldn't have been allowed to get to that position in the first place. First and foremost teachers - and pupils/students - are people, not robots with input and output. That just part of the problems due to OFSTED. Bravo to FA for this ditty.

@dirkbrad 10 жыл бұрын

Spot on! Reminds me of the old teacher joke...."What's the difference between a cosmetic surgeon and an OFSTED inspector? One tucks up features,the other....."

@mr.summerset8054 5 жыл бұрын

Ian Purdham Fucks up futures ? Is that it, dying to know

@232nightowl 5 жыл бұрын

@@mr.summerset8054 no fucks up teachers

@MiniTheVinx 5 ай бұрын

@@mr.summerset8054 It's a Spoonerism.

@oliver123452 10 жыл бұрын

I absolutely love this video. It came after a very hard week of a pre OFSTED OFSTED which had the staff in tears and not of laughter either! However, this has brought tears of joy. Thank you.

@TheChipmunk2008 6 ай бұрын

This is so appropriate... RIP Ruth Perry

@paullacey748 2 жыл бұрын

These Ladies are Unique. Clever, Clever and Clever

@dianaroberts3740 10 жыл бұрын

Absolutely fabulous-so very true. The delivery is fantastic. I've been laughing my socks off. Retired after teaching for 39 years. Struggling to share it on FB though.

@83BallroomBlitz 4 жыл бұрын

What is the difference between an OFSTED inspector and a plastic surgeon? The surgeon tucks up features, whereas...

@marksims3904 8 ай бұрын

More relevant now than ever..........LOVE THIS XXX

@ronandavid 5 жыл бұрын

I was sent this song a few days ago and as a teacher I have to admit AND confess that this funny song hilariously conceals the true side of the teacher's profession! It's even worse nowadays!

@ronandavid 5 жыл бұрын

What was your question again? @@author7027

@christinesinkins2862 10 жыл бұрын

Love Fascinating Aida. First heard 'Cheap Flights' - inspired, and then 'Dogging' and OFTSED. Just brilliant. Would love to go to a gig whilst they're on tour. Magic.

@jonmapp6944 9 жыл бұрын

They're touring at the moment. Wen't to see them yesterday, amazing stuff.

@christinesinkins2862 9 жыл бұрын

Jon Mapp Glad you enjoyed it John. Noticed they will be in the Nantwich area early next year. I'll be certain to catch them.

@PeterGarnett007 6 жыл бұрын

They are brilliant live. I had the privilege of catch one of their dates in Cape Town a few years back. Also got to chat a bit after the show and get my "Cheap Flights" souvenir DVD autographed. I play it regularly. It's a hoot every time

@mikontisott 10 жыл бұрын

So great to see the ladies still going strong, brilliant night out

@AngelaH2222 10 жыл бұрын

should be recommended viewing for all aspiring teachers... so true to life..

@quietman482 10 жыл бұрын

Just having been Ofsteded, this has really cheered me up!

@SmR8008 9 ай бұрын

No change there in 9 years!

@DerryPope Ай бұрын

Well, they have a death on their hands now.

@paulflood9826 4 жыл бұрын

I’m sending this to my deputy head tomorrow! I’m working in a ‘Requires Improvement’ school but thanks to this coronavirus shit, we’re going to miss our monitoring visit. At least something positive has come out of this!

@sallymilkshake 10 жыл бұрын

This brightened up a truly stressed out teacher's week! Thank you awesome ladies x

@gailbirchall2163 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing voice, amazing lyrics and can see that these professionals love to take the rise out of the establishment, are not sour faced, serious establishment droids

@SueMarilynLyle 10 жыл бұрын

Absolutely brilliant as well as accurate. Full marks! Outstanding!

@wallydeschamps8664 7 жыл бұрын

This is SO awesome, and SO spot on!!!

@caruuso 7 жыл бұрын

That was a hell of a bass E♭ from the singer to the right.

@G6JPG 2 жыл бұрын

I believe Adele was at one time male, which probably helps with the base notes!

@AECEntertainment 2 жыл бұрын

@@G6JPG seriously?

@G6JPG 2 жыл бұрын

@@AECEntertainment Yes - see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad%C3%A8le_Anderson; I presume she doesn't want to make anything of it, so I don't mention it unless, as here, it's relevant.

@Hieronymous69 2 жыл бұрын

Look up 'Prisoner of Gender'

@R.a.t.t.y 2 жыл бұрын

@@G6JPG I am male but once stood too close to the lift doors as they were closing - which helps me with the high notes.

@pmadamson 10 жыл бұрын

What a great song and so true. I am also retired after 35 years and my decision to finish 18 months early had nothing to do with children who were great for the full time I taught. Many teachers are getting out at the first opportunity and are a big loss to our children's future. What I don't understand is why the government don't seem to spot these problems

@rollosinternet1853 3 жыл бұрын

They do. They don't give sh*t, though.

@joesprinks4215 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely Pricerless well done had me in stitches !

@notgoingout2234 2 жыл бұрын

Gorgeous dresses!

@downsman1 3 жыл бұрын

This has proved, yet again, that the very best comedy is based on truth.

@timmeh1507 10 жыл бұрын

Shame on Gove and Wilshaw for disliking this video! Brilliant stuff - shared with my colleagues who have been through the ordeal recently...

@Orwic1 6 ай бұрын

As someone who taught at universities for decades, and had to lead preparations for the university versions of these inspections, I fully identify with these sentiments! (Even if we came out OK!)

@101mosioatunya 10 жыл бұрын

Brilliant! Brilliant! Brilliant! I am so glad that I now know what OFSTED stands for :-))

@rw8733 9 ай бұрын

Absolutely magnificent 😅

@64offsuiter 10 жыл бұрын

I've judged Mr Gove and decided that he requires improvement. It took me less than 20 minutes to realise this too!!! Maybe I should become an inspector.

@chloedodds8161 10 жыл бұрын

I saw this last night, an absolutely amazing show!!

@potdog1000 Жыл бұрын

love it, really love e it

@JAY-lo3sx 2 жыл бұрын

ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC 👏👏

@frankmazacs495 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant and amazingly accurate

@PinkyOnTheGString 10 жыл бұрын

I laughed and cried in equal measures at this. We've just been Ofshafted and this is so, so true. More power to your elbows, fair maids

@malcolmmaclenan8356 5 жыл бұрын

After an OFSTED inspection, a staff member did an arrangement for the staff of, 'There's only one F in OFSTED' to the tune of the football chant!!

@maninthemachine 2 жыл бұрын

That 1st "HAPPY ONE" killed me 🤣

@dunruden9720 3 жыл бұрын

I'm a retired teacher. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!

@catherineh.832 10 жыл бұрын

Superb! Saw you in concert last night. Absolutely WONDERFUL!

@michaelgraziano4203 10 жыл бұрын

Good to see the US isn't alone in this ridiculous "educational reform" situation.

@TCSC47 3 жыл бұрын

Spot on and brilliant!

@q.e.d.9112 2 жыл бұрын

Retired Kiwi teacher here. For us this whole micro-management of teachers and bureaucratic notions of “teaching excellence” started in 1989 and has been going on ever since. I gave it away in 1995 when, frankly, they’d taken the joy out of teaching, were assessing kids to death, demanding ever more paperwork and endless after school meetings. They had also put a sinking lid on school budgets and staffing ratios. When I first started teaching, secondary schools were collegial places. There was hierarchy, of course, but you were treated as a professional partner in a joint enterprise. These days teachers are trusted by management about as much as a Walmart check out operator is trusted with their cash box.

@trueaussie9230 Жыл бұрын

When the bean counters are running the show creativity is killed.

@suzannesadiiqa 10 жыл бұрын

My sister has just retired from being a special needs teacher, her weekends and holidays were almost wholly taken up with weekly/monthly reports for idiots who would never read them and couldn't understand them if they did! Get rid of these PC tossers and let our teachers get back to doing what they trained for which isn't justifying someones' cushy billet in central government.

@bighands69 9 жыл бұрын

Sue Harvey I am sorry but the people want socialism and this is what they get in return they cannot complain. What did they think was going to happen when new labour came to power. And then new conservatives.

@jamesofarcadia 7 жыл бұрын

you realise that the opitome of these values are in the privately sponsored Academies. So stupid linking bureaucracy and politics to a populist socialism that doesn't exist.

@tspencer62 5 жыл бұрын

I have a special needs son and so I love all special needs teachers. Your sister has done something really worth while. Be proud that she was there on the front line, where it counts. But I agree with your sentiment.

@sandrabarrie7401 10 жыл бұрын

Oh, so brilliant! Anybody got Adele's monologue on Academies which precedes this song in the current show? Again, very perceptive and so true.

@annbeirne9583 9 ай бұрын

BRILLIANT I loved all of it but especially what OFSTED stood for and what to stickup his bum 🤣🤣

@catkin3 2 жыл бұрын

Just brilliant 👏 👌 😀 👍

@WCSann 10 жыл бұрын

This is totally wonderful! Loved it!

@karenpackham7920 10 жыл бұрын

Just back from the Infants school where I'm a governor and which is undergoing the second day of an Ofsted inspection. God forbid that any governor - a voluntary role, Mr Gove, by the way - should have a paying job and a life which might prevent them from knowing and understanding every single aspect of the school! So thank you FA for cheering me up.

@michaelflinn7784 2 жыл бұрын

Love them

@trevorlong3003 2 жыл бұрын

Very good indeed!

@roblloyd1879 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant!

@captlarry-3525 2 жыл бұрын

This resonates all the way over here in California...

@elizabethowens8548 2 жыл бұрын

My sister in law is being slammed with work here in the upper midwest as well as managing elderly parents. Her phone is constantly buzzing. We'll be relieved when she retires because we don't want this stress to effect her health. Thank God she's sharp as a tack and can maneuver quickly

@feraltimberwolf550 2 жыл бұрын

Very clever ladies! Lol.

@suzanneedwards7085 10 жыл бұрын

Amazing and so true - - the 'Gove' should be sent this

@LizLascelles55 10 жыл бұрын

Absolutely brilliant and oh so true!

@jeanhawken4482 Жыл бұрын

Love it

@veganviewer49 10 жыл бұрын

Brilliant work ladies!

@trevorlong3003 2 жыл бұрын

It’s good!

@xaxa10100 10 жыл бұрын

Saw them tonight . Just Brilliant!!

@kerrypeskett6254 10 жыл бұрын

Absolutely brilliant x

@mikegrigg11 2 жыл бұрын

Brill !!

@ScunneredMan 10 жыл бұрын

BRILLIANT. What more can you say.

@SafeTrucking 5 жыл бұрын

Brilliant. Come to Australia, ladies!

@riverreasteve 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant

@nazirkhalifa5377 2 жыл бұрын

Bravo, Outstanding ❤

@robbiedixon2833 10 жыл бұрын

Saw in concert last night & can highly recommend

@benking5488 10 жыл бұрын

I love you, Fascinating Aida. Saw you in Coventry.... Suddenly New Zealand doesn't seem so boring.

@01Epona 9 жыл бұрын

Don't worry, we have ERO, I'm sharing this with family members who are teachers, and primary or secondary, they could easily relate

@kingcurry6594 10 жыл бұрын

I am a retired teacher (Physics, 32 years). This brilliant song is absolutely true. Wilshaw is out of touch and out of his depth; he should not be in charge of a major government body. He taught in the classroom for a minimal amount of time many years ago before going into management, thus having no idea whatsoever of the current challenges facing classroom teachers. His idea of an outstanding lesson is not mine. OFSTED needs abolishing with immediate effect - it is unfit for purpose.

@toyotaprius79 3 жыл бұрын

Spill. More. Tea

@chrislom5288 2 жыл бұрын

The writing is just sterling--all their stuff. Fantastic showpersonship

@dodajohn-baptist3558 10 жыл бұрын

Hysterical and ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh how it all hits a nerve. I'm sure we could all add a stanza or two! Keep up the good work! We all are!

@valshield670 10 жыл бұрын

This is brilliant and is right on the money!

@allypallyable 10 жыл бұрын

Love it ! Clever lady

@andysongs9485 5 ай бұрын

What an amazing voice. Great song too. 🙂

@carolinedownes7407 10 жыл бұрын

Absolutely brill. I have a cousin who would be shouting from the rooftops at this. Keep up the good work !

@G6JPG 2 жыл бұрын

I don't think I've ever heard as clear a diction as this - clearer even than Julie Andrews: there is absolutely no need for the captions! And in a patter song too.

@trueaussie9230 Жыл бұрын

Just a thought. Maybe the 'captions' are to assist people for whom English is not their 1st language. Or possibly for the hearing impaired. It must be wonderful to live in your world, where anyone who is not exactly like you has no reason to exist. FYI - diction is not countable, ergo one cannot hear "such A clear diction". One simply hears 'such clear diction' - or enunciation.

@stevewaters449 5 ай бұрын

Sadly this is VERY RELEVANT this year, following the death of a head teacher who took her own life following an inspection 😢

@leakycheese 10 жыл бұрын

Brilliant!! I've always said Gove is a cupid stunt, but Jeremy Hunt works also :)

@06kohlert 10 жыл бұрын

Its a reference to Jeremy Hunt MP

@G6JPG 2 жыл бұрын

@@06kohlert Who was at one point culture secretary - and on one memorable morning, the inevitable Spoonerism was committed by not one but two well-known radio voices!

@michaelking5934 7 ай бұрын

I detest political incorrectess.........so this is brilliant and so refreshing........I am 78 yrs young.......lgo girls, go 😂

@Fledhyris 9 жыл бұрын

Very funny! My son's school is just having an inspection and my mother is a retired teacher so I can see things from two points of view. Probably nobody except the government can ever see things from Ofsted's pov!

@paullannon8280 Ай бұрын

If you look up "Posh Totty" in the dictionary you should see a picture of Liza Pulman. The woman is stunning.

@ChrisF 7 жыл бұрын

Great ditty!

@martinfarley2026 2 жыл бұрын

truly brilliant

@peterpryor3217 2 жыл бұрын

very entertaining and I think that Teachers around the world can relate to this as they are not sufficiently supported by the decision makers.

@user-hs6px3wl4l 8 ай бұрын

This is so funny 😂 can’t wait to see them

@snoopydog6426 10 жыл бұрын

BRILLIANT!!!

@grahamlait1969 3 жыл бұрын

The difficulty with teaching as a profession is that politicians who want to make a name for themselves love becoming Education Minister, because they can shuffle everything about, faff about with the curriculum, re-stack the furniture, bring in a new examination system, make everybody jump through new and bigger hoops, achieve precisely sod all and still move up their own particular greasy parliamentary pole.

@John-pp2jr 9 ай бұрын

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@sadoldgit313 3 жыл бұрын

Nothing changes in 2021!

@tomprice9028 4 жыл бұрын

Great!!!

@christinabush100 10 жыл бұрын

Completely brilliant

@shivinder777 10 жыл бұрын

Brilliant and true!

@madmonk49 9 жыл бұрын

Brilliant xx

@tobyrose6906 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant. ..wonder where they are now ..

@fp4man542 Жыл бұрын

They will be starting their 40th anniversary tour later this year.

@PtrosPtros 10 жыл бұрын

Bravo, bravo, bravo!

@DeirdreCatherineDoyle 2 ай бұрын

Got to know my students in new school. Was told had to sit with them in total silence in 'detention'. Did Spike Milligan (Feck that) and we did more work in detention than in the class! Give kids a chance for the Love of God and teachers? Very Much So. All my 'bunked off' students passed every exam ... well done them.