UK Jobs under threat at Toyota

Toyota could trim its UK workforce after a sharp decline in demand led it to post its first losses since 1941, it was reported.

The Japanese car giant has forecast an operating loss of 150 billion yen (£1.12 billion) for the financial year ending next March - the first such loss since it began reporting operating figures.
According to the Times, Toyota could cut up to 800 jobs in the UK, or 15% of its workforce, adding to the 40,000 positions expected to be shed from the UK car industry's 200,000 total over the next three years.

The Times said declining demand was "likely" to trigger redundancies across Toyota's business.
The car maker has not made any of its permanent staff redundant, but it is understood to have already cut an unspecified number of temporary workers.

Toyota promised to do all it could to retain permanent British workers, but has reportedly not ruled out the possibility of redundancies.

Source: The Press Association

To read or see more information on Toyota, you can watch my presentation called: Toyota the Supermarket for Cars Here at Slide Share

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

To all my students (that sounds a bit like Yoda, doesn't it?) have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

To S1, keep enjoying yourselves and work hard.

To S2, start thinking about your career choices and what works best for you as an individual. You have to pick subjects for 2 years!

To S3, remember it won't be long before you are in S4 and facing the only exams of your life you can't resit. So no pressure then.

To S4, you have your Prelim out of the way and now to do a good job in the projects. We need you all to attend and work to your very best. I honestly think you can achieve some great grades with a little bit of hard work.

To S5 and S6, some of you show great maturity and work hard, some of you sadly are still a wee bit immature and to be brutally frank should have left school.

You guys do not realise it but you are role models for all the younger pupils. Your actions come with responsibility and have consequences.

But all is not lost for you. You have the Prelims coming up and I know there will be some people achieving great grades, some doing okay and others who we will have no choice but to change levels.

The challenge I set to you all is prove me wrong. If I said you will get a C, make me eat my words and get a B. If I said B, then get an A. If I said you will probably end up in Int 2, then go dazzle in the Prelim.

There is nothing I would like better than to say well done to senior school students who have achieved and earned their grades.

I do not want to frighten you but if you are going to University or College you'd better get used to the pressure of exams as you have this pressure in your lives for the next 3-5 years, and a lot more frequently.

It is tough at the top!

Best Wishes

MM

S1-S2 Xmas Disco!

Ho ho ho and Season's Greetings.

Tonight we're going to the Xmas Disco for the Junior School. Here's some silly person dressed up as Santa last year. Wonder who that is?

And in the top picture we have Magnum P.I. and someone who used to be in Take That!

I wonder what kind of pictures we are going to see tonight?

It's coming!

The first meeting of would-be TV stars will be held in X3 this Wednesday lunchtime, with me, Mr McGowan.

While we wait for our very own Greenscreen to arrive, we'll look at the filming process from the page to the screen.

That means you guys will be writing and planning the content of our own TV show.

But not everyone wants to be a TV star. Some of you may prefer staying behind the scenes in the production and editing departments. Or could we have set designers and make-up artists on show?

Who knows. Just remember that it is YOUR show. So we want to hear from you and all your good ideas.

The recruitment drive starts now. We aim to have a very rough pilot show sans greenscreen before we break up for Christmas.

So get your skates on!