Pupil support

The DfES Pupil Support Circular 10/99 gave some very good practical guidance in working with pupils with behaviour difficulties. Recently some parts of this guidance have been updated, and have provide some useful tips and ideas that can be shared with staff and used to challenge thinking in schools. 

DfEE (1999) Social Inclusion Pupil Support. London HMSO. 

ECG pt is predisposed to overheating during ejqwsure to high temps OD May cause CNS stimulation followed by CNS dqjression, and may include psychotic Sxs such as delusions, anxiety and restlessness, wiU also cause widespread antimus-carinic Sxs (dilated pupils, flushed skin, dry mucous membranes) symptomatic and supportive... 

In overdose, the antihistamines cause convulsions, hallucinations, excitement, ataxia, incoordination, and athetosis. On exam patients may exhibit fixed, dilated pupils with a flushed face, sinus tachycardia, urinary retention, dry mouth, and fever. At high doses the patient can become comatose, which is often followed by cardiorespiratory collapse and death within 2 to 18 hours (Babe and Serafin, 1996). Treatment of overdose is mainly supportive, with efforts to manage the anti-colinergic effects. 

The next significant publication on air was by Daniel Rutherford in 1772 in his doctor s thesis. Rutherford was a pupil of Dr. Black and the subject was suggested by Black. Dr. Black had shown that fixed air could be separated from the air which no longer supported combustion and respiration, but other constituents of the air which no longer supported combustion were uninvestigated, and this was the problem he suggested for Rutherford. 

Further details of these transformations of the isomeric glucoses and methyl glucosides and other facts in support of the lactone constitution of glucose must necessarily be omitted from our study though they are essential to a full understanding of the matter. For such fuller discussion such works as Armstrong and Cohen may be consulted. We may simply add that recent work by Nef and his pupils not only supports the lactone constitution but shows that both alpha-lactones... 

Phenylephrine is a sympathomimetic aj adrenoceptor agonist capable of producing mydriasis in some species by iris dilator muscle contraction. In the horse, topical application of a 10% solution has been shown to have no effect on the pupil diameter in the normal eye. However, 10% phenylephrine in combination with topical atropine is reported to be useful in reversing pupillary spasm in some stubborn cases of anterior uveitis, although there is no pharmacological evidence to support any additive mydriatic effect when the two agents are used together. 

Plato s most famous pupil was Aristotle. Aristotle came from Stageirus, on the Chalcidic peninsula of northern Greece, where his father, Nicomachus, was a physician. Aristotle would probably have followed his father into medicine, since medical education and practice were passed down from father to son, but Nicomachus died when Aristotle was about 10 years old. He was raised by a relative, and, in 367 b.c.e., at the age of 17, Aristotle became a student at the Academy. He stayed for 20 years, first as a student and later as a teacher. When Plato died, Aristotle may have expected to become the head of the Academy in Athens, but the position went to Speusippus, who was Plato s nephew. Little is known about Speusippus he seems to have followed some of Plato s ideas but rejected Plato s theory of forms. Aristotle left the Academy, partly because of his situation at the Academy and partly because of political turmoil in Athens. He traveled to Macedonia, where he tutored Alexander, son of King Philip. When Alexander became king, he supported Aristotle s creation of the Lyceum, a rival school in Athens. 

This objective seems to be the most neglected one in our educational system. The common observation that supports it is that a science graduate fails to insert even a fuse wire in the electric circuit of his house. This objective is considered to have been achieved to a great extent if the pupil can ... 

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