Staff Profile - Mr Robertson

STAFF PROFILE –Mr Robertson

Q: What is your age?
A: Too old

Q: Place of birth?
A: London

Q: What do you enjoy doing in your spare time?
A: Reading, watching football, entertaining my kids

Q: What football/rugby team do you support?
A:Darlington FC

Q: What car do you drive?
A:Renault Scenic

Q: What is your favourite film and why?
A: Changes all the time.  Possibly the Wizard of Oz; anything by Hitchcock;
Sunset Boulevard; Apocalypse Now

Q: What is your favourite T.V. programme and why?
A: Currently Dr Who also The Simpsons

Q: What is your favourite book?
A: The Deptford Trilogy – Robertson Davies

Q: What is your favourite band/singer?
A: Also changes all the time – REM, Neil Young, Peter Gabriel

Q: What is your favourite meal/food?
A: Anything my wife cooks and Indian

Q: What has been your proudest moment?
A: Getting married, having kids

Q: What is your ambition in life?
A: It was to be a Blue Peter presenter.  Now to write a book!

Q: What is your greatest achievement in teaching?
A: Getting Liam Dando 2 A*

Q: What is your favourite kind of holiday?
A:Cottage in France, lots of wine etc

Q: What is the most amazing place you have ever visited?
A: Various – whale watching in Canada, Russia, California

Q: What is the best part of being a teacher?
A: Most pupils

Q: What is the worst part of being a teacher?
A:Rude pupils who think they know best

Q: What has been your greatest experience?
A:

Q: If not a teacher, what job would you choose?
A:Blue Peter presenter, famous author

Q: What was your best memory of your own schooldays?
A:My Yr 7 & 8 English Teacher – Miss Gandolf

Q: What is the most unusual or surprising fact about you?
A:

Q: What is your passion?
A: My wife and kids, Darlington FC, music, literature

Q: Which famous person, dead or alive, would you most like to meet?
A: Brunel, Botticelli

Q: What is your greatest regret in life?
A: Doing Economics A Level rather than RE

Q: What is your pet hate?
A: Anything with the word ‘Celebrity’ in the title, drivers who go too slowly in the middle lane
of motorways.  Hartlepool United